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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Thanks folks, I think I might ask coach can I breath on both sides, at least try it, bilateral breathing. Because he is having me breathe every 2nd stroke to my right. and I'm having to force air out to get room in on that second stroke coming up. It's taking an effort to push it out and I feel rushed to get it out so I can get some more in when I turn my head on the second stroke. But since I'm new, I just thought I was supposed to do it that way.
I guess this is a trial and error thing, not set in stone. I just feel like I'm missing something and that this shouldn't be this hard to breathe. OH well, we'll see in the morning.
There is this lady at the Y where I swim. She is there every day. I've seen her face once. Other than that, she's always in the water, for hours, like a windup duck. Back, forth, flip, back, forth. Graceful and syncopated and predicatable. I'm sure she's been swimming 1/2 of her life. She just barely kicks, glides along, skims the water, turns her head side to side on every third stroke. Absolute slow and perfect. I sometimes sit and watch her.
Then I calmly get in the water and try to emulate. Quickly, I feel as coordinated as a drunk on a bicycle. But I try again, and again. I'm sure as she turns her head to the right she is seeing the pitiful middleaged man floundering around in the other end. She may even have gotten splashed from my flying water droplets.
I know I'll get it, I envy not her stroke and technique now but her peace and zen-swim. She's completely at rest. If she ever stops, I'll meet her and shake her fin.
Thanks for the help folks.
Thanks folks, I think I might ask coach can I breath on both sides, at least try it, bilateral breathing. Because he is having me breathe every 2nd stroke to my right. and I'm having to force air out to get room in on that second stroke coming up. It's taking an effort to push it out and I feel rushed to get it out so I can get some more in when I turn my head on the second stroke. But since I'm new, I just thought I was supposed to do it that way.
I guess this is a trial and error thing, not set in stone. I just feel like I'm missing something and that this shouldn't be this hard to breathe. OH well, we'll see in the morning.
There is this lady at the Y where I swim. She is there every day. I've seen her face once. Other than that, she's always in the water, for hours, like a windup duck. Back, forth, flip, back, forth. Graceful and syncopated and predicatable. I'm sure she's been swimming 1/2 of her life. She just barely kicks, glides along, skims the water, turns her head side to side on every third stroke. Absolute slow and perfect. I sometimes sit and watch her.
Then I calmly get in the water and try to emulate. Quickly, I feel as coordinated as a drunk on a bicycle. But I try again, and again. I'm sure as she turns her head to the right she is seeing the pitiful middleaged man floundering around in the other end. She may even have gotten splashed from my flying water droplets.
I know I'll get it, I envy not her stroke and technique now but her peace and zen-swim. She's completely at rest. If she ever stops, I'll meet her and shake her fin.
Thanks for the help folks.
