Are their any good exercises that can increase my vital capacity so that i could swim longer with less air? Does just swimming increase someones vital capacity? please answer this if you read it
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Contrary to popular belief, you can't really do much to train your vital capacity. On the positive side, however, it's not the amount of oxygen your lungs take in that is the important thing in swimming. It's the amount of oxygen your well-trained muscles are able to extract from your blood stream. There have been endurance athletes that have competed in the Olympics with only one lung. Obviously, if vital capacity were a limiting factor, this would not have been possible.
Forget about training your lungs. Train your heart (which will get more efficient at pumping blood to your muscles) and your skeletal muscles (which will get more efficient at extracting the oxygen they need), and your endurance will improve regardless of how much air your lungs can hold.
Contrary to popular belief, you can't really do much to train your vital capacity. On the positive side, however, it's not the amount of oxygen your lungs take in that is the important thing in swimming. It's the amount of oxygen your well-trained muscles are able to extract from your blood stream. There have been endurance athletes that have competed in the Olympics with only one lung. Obviously, if vital capacity were a limiting factor, this would not have been possible.
Forget about training your lungs. Train your heart (which will get more efficient at pumping blood to your muscles) and your skeletal muscles (which will get more efficient at extracting the oxygen they need), and your endurance will improve regardless of how much air your lungs can hold.
