I saw someone today breathing every 4 strokes, so it took her 4 or 5 breathings to finish the length. Thought it interesting to know the breathing styles of the people here, and maybe the advantages of each.
Edit: Replace "breath" by "breathe" in the title.
When racing anything over a 200, it's breathe every stroke right side unless I'm gawking.
Bilateral breathing has its benefits. I breathe most comfortably to the right, but can and do breathe to both sides at various times for various reasons.
Cooling down in the dive well at Austin after an event at SCY Nationals, endorphins coursing through my veins and all being generally right with the world, I breathed to my right and saw several massage tables on the deck with masseuses and masseurs working over customers. One particularly lovely masseuse was wearing a tank top, which as she worked facing the dive well afforded me a reasonably unobstructed view down the front of said tank top.
I breathed every stroke to the right down, and, in a moment of opportunistic inspiration, chose to work on my left breathing every stroke of each length back.
When racing anything over a 200, it's breathe every stroke right side unless I'm gawking.
Bilateral breathing has its benefits. I breathe most comfortably to the right, but can and do breathe to both sides at various times for various reasons.
Cooling down in the dive well at Austin after an event at SCY Nationals, endorphins coursing through my veins and all being generally right with the world, I breathed to my right and saw several massage tables on the deck with masseuses and masseurs working over customers. One particularly lovely masseuse was wearing a tank top, which as she worked facing the dive well afforded me a reasonably unobstructed view down the front of said tank top.
I breathed every stroke to the right down, and, in a moment of opportunistic inspiration, chose to work on my left breathing every stroke of each length back.
