Does anyone have an advice or inpit for building up your lungs? I am trying to hold my breath for longer periods after reading an article about it but it seems like I should be doing more. I want to get better before I actually join the group in my area.
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Hi Fanstone,
I truly appreciate what you wrote but I absolutely know that breath control training sets with less oxygen has increased my ability to swim/race better. I not only can feel it, I perform much better. It isn't just my brain getting used to swimming without more air, my entire body seems to truly benefit from it. So even though scientifically this may not can be proven, when I race I am grateful I have done restricted breathing patterns as a part of my training. I feel as if the lactic acid just never comes about much. Of course, I will add that I am doing sprinting; 10 strokes ez, 10 fast and continue this pattern and I breath every stroke on the 10 ez, and every 4th on the 10 fast. I have never been a swimmer who fell victim to training things that were of no benefit. If it didn't work, I didn't do it; if it worked, I did it except for hand paddles(shoulders).
And I am sure that many things that may work for one swimmer, may not work for another as we are all unique, inside and out!!!! And the minute something in my training stops working for me, I will find something else that will. So, my apologies to all who believe this limited breath control may be nonsense; I just have to advocate it based on my performances and how I feel when swimming fast for long periods of time.
(PS: we still have very limited Internet service here)
Donna
Hi Fanstone,
I truly appreciate what you wrote but I absolutely know that breath control training sets with less oxygen has increased my ability to swim/race better. I not only can feel it, I perform much better. It isn't just my brain getting used to swimming without more air, my entire body seems to truly benefit from it. So even though scientifically this may not can be proven, when I race I am grateful I have done restricted breathing patterns as a part of my training. I feel as if the lactic acid just never comes about much. Of course, I will add that I am doing sprinting; 10 strokes ez, 10 fast and continue this pattern and I breath every stroke on the 10 ez, and every 4th on the 10 fast. I have never been a swimmer who fell victim to training things that were of no benefit. If it didn't work, I didn't do it; if it worked, I did it except for hand paddles(shoulders).
And I am sure that many things that may work for one swimmer, may not work for another as we are all unique, inside and out!!!! And the minute something in my training stops working for me, I will find something else that will. So, my apologies to all who believe this limited breath control may be nonsense; I just have to advocate it based on my performances and how I feel when swimming fast for long periods of time.
(PS: we still have very limited Internet service here)
Donna
