Breathing problems and Confusion on ..

Who says you can't breathe? Here is Ian Thorpe breathing to his left on every stroke cycle: www.youtube.com/watch Otherwise, tissues must be well oxygenated. Do a good warmup, try breath control at some point in the workout and gradually bring down the number of breaths to the lowest number in the last 50m. Very few don't breathe at some point during 50m. I would set a reasonable goal, and build in one or two more breaths on the return 25 than on the outbound 25. Example: If you normally breathe 10X (example purposes only), maybe work for 6 breaths on the outbound, 7 on the inbound. Or breathe every 7 or 9 strokes on the outbound, every 5 or 7 on the inbound. You have to get there gradually. That's how I would do it. Do you have a coach? I have a hard time not breathing while i do my 50 freestyle, is there some kind of exercise i could do don't tell me DON'T BREATH because i tried, and it doesn't work. Ha. I need a slow exercise that will get me to not breath for at least 21 seconds.. When doing back stroke, how many dolphin kicks are you allowed in a meet? And in freestyle my dolphin kick sucks, but its SO good for backstroke i don't understand what I'm doing wrong.

Here's a Michael Phelps video that might help you. www.youtube.com/watch

Thanks for the Video, sort of helped :P I still don't know if i could figure out what exercise he does to make his freestyle dolphin kick so fast. Don't know if the video showed it: he does vertical dolphin with a weight belt. Also, crouches low on the floor and shoots up as high as he can go above water, dolphin all the way, with weight belt on. Poke around on YouTube for other solutions. You can find videos of starts and turns. Phelps has his own fly DVD on the Swim Fast series (just google to find), with some of the drills he does. Phelps has been swimming for something like 16 years, with individualized professional coaching daily. It doesn't happen overnight. :)

When doing back stroke, how many dolphin kicks are you allowed in a meet? There is no limit on the number of kicks, you just have to surface by 15m.

Who says you can't breathe? Here is Ian Thorpe breathing to his left on every stroke cycle: www.youtube.com/watch Otherwise, tissues must be well oxygenated. Do a good warmup, try breath control at some point in the workout and gradually bring down the number of breaths to the lowest number in the last 50m. Very few don't breathe at some point during 50m. I would set a reasonable goal, and build in one or two more breaths on the return 25 than on the outbound 25. Example: If you normally breathe 10X (example purposes only), maybe work for 6 breaths on the outbound, 7 on the inbound. Or breathe every 7 or 9 strokes on the outbound, every 5 or 7 on the inbound. You have to get there gradually. That's how I would do it. Do you have a coach? Yes I have a coach but right now I am practicing on my own time, because swim season has not started for me yet I'm a Senior in HS, my 50 free time is a 24.5 at best and on bad days 26s I usually do 2 - 3 breaths and i wanted to do no breaths on the 50.. but i guess its just inhumane? lol. Thanks for reminding me its on the 15m to surface LindsAy! I'm pretty sure my coach told me that but i forgot! Anyone got any tips for improving dolphin kick on free style flip turn ? As in belly down to water because belly up to the water Im good in.

Here's a Michael Phelps video that might help you. www.youtube.com/watch Thanks for the Video, sort of helped :P I still don't know if i could figure out what exercise he does to make his freestyle dolphin kick so fast.

Thanks for the Video, sort of helped :P I still don't know if i could figure out what exercise he does to make his freestyle dolphin kick so fast. Plus why would michael phelps give away his secrets, im pretty sure in that instructional video he did not show us EXACTLY what he does in a race, why because he starts on track start, that's not a good style start unless you wanna look cool