My coach is telling me to "just take in a deeeep breath". do you guys just do that?? breathe deeply from your chest?? I breath like I run, from my chest. I heard/read or something about diaphragmatic breathing technique.
I realize that I'm new and all, but I get soooo frustrated getting winded. I can't help but think I'm doing something wrong. He tells me to just keep going and "work it out". I'm turning my head to side, getting deep breath, I'm not sure I"m exhaling as much or right as I should and I might be getting too much air in. After 3 or or 5 complete rotations of r and left (what is that called) strokes, I bob up and am so winded. That's so hard for me cause I can run 2 relatively easy miles on a treadmill at 7 mph.
Thanks,
Mark
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No. this has not confused me at all. I think I probably am-
-Thinking too much when I"m in the water ,but that's hard to just turn off. I do try though.
-start off going too fast
-not getting my shoulders out of the water far enough thus I create more drag/resistance.
-and not exhaling enough. I am forcefully blowing out thinking to empty my lungs. I am turning my head to breathe in every 3rd stroke to the right.
This all is hard to explain to my coach I think partly because he knows how hard I'm focusing and he is attributing all my errors to just "trying to hard." It's probably harder to retrain a 43 year old man than it is a kid.
Thanks for helping and listening to me whine, folks.
Mark
No. this has not confused me at all. I think I probably am-
-Thinking too much when I"m in the water ,but that's hard to just turn off. I do try though.
-start off going too fast
-not getting my shoulders out of the water far enough thus I create more drag/resistance.
-and not exhaling enough. I am forcefully blowing out thinking to empty my lungs. I am turning my head to breathe in every 3rd stroke to the right.
This all is hard to explain to my coach I think partly because he knows how hard I'm focusing and he is attributing all my errors to just "trying to hard." It's probably harder to retrain a 43 year old man than it is a kid.
Thanks for helping and listening to me whine, folks.
Mark
