Hello,
I'm excited to be here and excited to be back in the water again after about 12 years!
I have numerous questions/things I'm excited to improve on so I thought I'd start with one: my whole life (so basically for 30 years) I've only been breathing on the right when I do freestyle. Any tips for breaking this habit and learning to breath on the left? I honestly can't even remember how I learned to breath on the right the first time around....I've just always only done it that way. I think I'm partly afraid if I just try it, I'll end up drinking the pool..plus it just doesn't feel natural.
Thanks!
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When I first learned to breathe on both sides it was because we were given a set, LCM, 5x200 pull on 2:45, breathing 3,5,7,9 by 50. When we said we didn't know how to breathe on our lefts, we were told we could do it 4, 6, 8, 10. We learned to breathe left on that very set.
I found when I started breathing alternate all the time that I got dizzy. It took a while to get over it.
Stick with it, I've had a lot fewer shoulder problems breathing on both sides rather than leaning on the non-breathing side.
Swim fast,
Greg
When I first learned to breathe on both sides it was because we were given a set, LCM, 5x200 pull on 2:45, breathing 3,5,7,9 by 50. When we said we didn't know how to breathe on our lefts, we were told we could do it 4, 6, 8, 10. We learned to breathe left on that very set.
I found when I started breathing alternate all the time that I got dizzy. It took a while to get over it.
Stick with it, I've had a lot fewer shoulder problems breathing on both sides rather than leaning on the non-breathing side.
Swim fast,
Greg
