Breathing

Originally posted by SWinkleblech Here is a question. I swim mostly distance events and according to Lindsay maybe I shouldn't be breathing every three in a meet. If I am used to breathing every three strokes is there an advatage to breathing on one side. I am not even sure I am comfortable doing it any different then the way I always have done it. The only advantage is that you get more air. I always breathe every third stroke when I'm doing a 50, but for longer distances I run short of air by the end if I only breathe every third stroke, so I adopt a more complex breathing pattern where I breathe more frequently but breathe an equal amount of the time on both sides.

Originally posted by SWinkleblech Here is a question. I swim mostly distance events and according to Lindsay maybe I shouldn't be breathing every three in a meet. If I am used to breathing every three strokes is there an advatage to breathing on one side. I am not even sure I am comfortable doing it any different then the way I always have done it. The only advantage is that you get more air. I always breathe every third stroke when I'm doing a 50, but for longer distances I run short of air by the end if I only breathe every third stroke, so I adopt a more complex breathing pattern where I breathe more frequently but breathe an equal amount of the time on both sides.