Does anyone else suffer from oxygen debt after tumble turn?
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This is not the least of my worries in swimming, but I tend to fall into oxygen debt after tumble turns. In fact, when I keep doing tumble turns in lap swims, it is less taxing to swim 50 LCM than 25 SCY, because I have more time in 50 LCM to recover from the oxygen debt, whereas in 25 SCY, I have to do another tumble turn and fall, yet again, into oxygen debt, before fully recovering from the previous bout.
Do other master swimmers out there suffer from a similar problem? How do you over come this?
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... I tend to fall into oxygen debt after tumble turns. ... Do other master swimmers out there suffer from a similar problem? How do you over come this?
Yes, this has frequently been a problem for me. (I always do flip turns in free and back.) Fanstone’s post on CO2 excess is excellent food for thought (thanks!). I’ve always found that I have the most problems in turns when I’m distracted (by the noise in my head) and not breathing optimally, usually shortening my inhalations and exhalations (no doubt causing CO2 buildup).
I’ve always felt I had to expel too much air out my nose, but after what seems like kergillions of turns it seems I still have to let out a lot. So it seems I’m almost always starved for air coming out of the turn. As a consequence one of my biggest fears is that some moron kid is going to run across the deck and jump on me after a turn and that will be it. I’ve nearly had it happen at least once, by a whole gang of them.
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Former Member
... I tend to fall into oxygen debt after tumble turns. ... Do other master swimmers out there suffer from a similar problem? How do you over come this?
Yes, this has frequently been a problem for me. (I always do flip turns in free and back.) Fanstone’s post on CO2 excess is excellent food for thought (thanks!). I’ve always found that I have the most problems in turns when I’m distracted (by the noise in my head) and not breathing optimally, usually shortening my inhalations and exhalations (no doubt causing CO2 buildup).
I’ve always felt I had to expel too much air out my nose, but after what seems like kergillions of turns it seems I still have to let out a lot. So it seems I’m almost always starved for air coming out of the turn. As a consequence one of my biggest fears is that some moron kid is going to run across the deck and jump on me after a turn and that will be it. I’ve nearly had it happen at least once, by a whole gang of them.
