I passed an instructor at our pool today who was saying to some kids learning freestyle that if they are right handed, they will most likely breathe on the right side, and left handed people breathe on the left side. I don't know if I agree, so I want to get your poll results:
I'm right handed and I breathe most naturally on my right side.
I'm left handed and I breathe most naturally on my left side.
My handedness and my most natural breathing side are opposite
I am truly ambidextrous and breathe with equal comfort on both sides
I am one side dominant, but have trained my self to be a comfortable bilateral breather
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The category I fall into is unfortunately not listed in the poll :shakeshead: ....and that is that I am right handed but I don't have a breathing side preferance....I typically breathe on one side for a while until I get bored with it and then I will switch to breathing on the other side for a while...(also keeps me from getting a stiff neck from breathing on the same side all of the time). I do NOT, however, like to alternate my breathing side continuously back and forth between so many storke cycles....I like keeping it on one side for at least a 25 before I switch to the other side. I wonder how common that is?? ....or if I am the only one who prefers to breathe this way?
Newmastersswimmer
The category I fall into is unfortunately not listed in the poll :shakeshead: ....and that is that I am right handed but I don't have a breathing side preferance....I typically breathe on one side for a while until I get bored with it and then I will switch to breathing on the other side for a while...(also keeps me from getting a stiff neck from breathing on the same side all of the time). I do NOT, however, like to alternate my breathing side continuously back and forth between so many storke cycles....I like keeping it on one side for at least a 25 before I switch to the other side. I wonder how common that is?? ....or if I am the only one who prefers to breathe this way?
Newmastersswimmer
