Hi
I really mean when is the right time to exhale.
Should I slowly exhale while swimming or should I hold my breath until I need air exhale and then turn to inhale?
Thanks for helping out this newbie
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"What we have here is a lack of communication", line from Cool Hand Luke, a great film with Paul Newman. First, what makes you hunger for air isn't the need for oxygen but the need to exhale the carbon dioxide that is building up in your blood stream. If you exhale through your nose on a flip turn because you can't avoid water entering by just holding your breath, then you will want to breathe pretty fast. If you swim a straight 50 with one, or two or no breaths it doesn't matter, as you can accumulate all the C02 and then at the end of the lap you can breathe thusly expiring the air and getting rid of the C02 and starting a fresh cycle. If your lung is inflated it will continuously remove C02 from your blood, however as you exhale you have less and less alveoli to remove the excess C02 in your blood that is driving you to breathe. BUT, if you wait to exhale all at once you might not have enough time to breathe in...so you have to dose what you want, according to your speed and distance. 25 yards, don't exhale at all. From then on to 1500 exhale slowly so you won't have to exhale all at once but don't exhale to fast that you won't have any alveoli left to remove your excess C02. Clear and to the point (I think not), but even I after many sleepless night on the internet have yet to figure the validity of non breathing drills or holding your breath from flag on and so forth. No bubbles from Cielo on his way to win the 50 free...billy fanstone
"What we have here is a lack of communication", line from Cool Hand Luke, a great film with Paul Newman. First, what makes you hunger for air isn't the need for oxygen but the need to exhale the carbon dioxide that is building up in your blood stream. If you exhale through your nose on a flip turn because you can't avoid water entering by just holding your breath, then you will want to breathe pretty fast. If you swim a straight 50 with one, or two or no breaths it doesn't matter, as you can accumulate all the C02 and then at the end of the lap you can breathe thusly expiring the air and getting rid of the C02 and starting a fresh cycle. If your lung is inflated it will continuously remove C02 from your blood, however as you exhale you have less and less alveoli to remove the excess C02 in your blood that is driving you to breathe. BUT, if you wait to exhale all at once you might not have enough time to breathe in...so you have to dose what you want, according to your speed and distance. 25 yards, don't exhale at all. From then on to 1500 exhale slowly so you won't have to exhale all at once but don't exhale to fast that you won't have any alveoli left to remove your excess C02. Clear and to the point (I think not), but even I after many sleepless night on the internet have yet to figure the validity of non breathing drills or holding your breath from flag on and so forth. No bubbles from Cielo on his way to win the 50 free...billy fanstone
