Not the most pleasant subject, I know. I have found some advice, but not a lot about this. What do you think, especially if you are a distance or open water swimmer?
After swimming hard or for more than a mile in the open water, I'm left with the most bloated feeling! I WANT to (let's put it politely) FLATULATE, but just remain bloated for up to 4 hours. I have a feeling this has to do with not exhaling completely, thus compounding the air in my stomach and gut.
When I really pay attention to expelling all the air as I swim, I get winded!!
I have tried Gas-X after swimming, but it doesn't really work. I just have to wait for the air to "filter out" over time. It can be painful!
Do particular foods create gas? Should I hold to the old dictum of never eating less than 2 hours before swimming? Is this something that plagues older swimmers more than young ones?
What's going on with me? I'm a 54 year old woman.
THANKS!
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Haha what a funny thread :D prouppp
Reason why I'm laughing is that I used to have the same issue. I remember after some ld workouts, sometimes, in the showers, I would deliver some 1minute long bombs. It was pretty amazing.
In my case, the cause was very simple. I was swallowing little too much water while breathing, and some air would find its way down to my stomach along with the water. When you think about it, it is pretty obvious that with the little time we have to breathe, if we swallow water, it is very hard to conceive that no air passes along with the water. After all, making sure no air passes would probably translate into missing a breathe. Either you drink air along with water, either you drink the water without breathing.
No more complicated than that. These gas aren't really gas other than O2.
There's a good thing, and a bad thing with this problem.
Good thing is that it means that your throat is making great job in making sure none of the water you glup mistakenly ends up in the lungs.
Bad thing is that it denotes that you often swim with some water in your mouth, which in turn means that your breathing action (rotating the body and head, Popeying your mouth) isn't optimal.
I made some effort to get rid of this issue and it wasn't that difficult.
Now, maybe an opinion different than some expressed in the thread so far. I do not think that this issue is related to exhaling air underwater or not. To some extent, holding air underwater and exhaling it when face is outside the water (we all agree that it is not recommended) can only help the water left in your mouth to be thrown off the mouth when exhaling.
To me, the issue was more related to the fact that I was constantly swimming with some water in my mouth. That used to occur because I was just not paying enough attention to make sure it doesn't get in my mouth at the first place. Fixed the issue by using the Popeye sort of mouth (the lower half of it completely sealed).
Haha what a funny thread :D prouppp
Reason why I'm laughing is that I used to have the same issue. I remember after some ld workouts, sometimes, in the showers, I would deliver some 1minute long bombs. It was pretty amazing.
In my case, the cause was very simple. I was swallowing little too much water while breathing, and some air would find its way down to my stomach along with the water. When you think about it, it is pretty obvious that with the little time we have to breathe, if we swallow water, it is very hard to conceive that no air passes along with the water. After all, making sure no air passes would probably translate into missing a breathe. Either you drink air along with water, either you drink the water without breathing.
No more complicated than that. These gas aren't really gas other than O2.
There's a good thing, and a bad thing with this problem.
Good thing is that it means that your throat is making great job in making sure none of the water you glup mistakenly ends up in the lungs.
Bad thing is that it denotes that you often swim with some water in your mouth, which in turn means that your breathing action (rotating the body and head, Popeying your mouth) isn't optimal.
I made some effort to get rid of this issue and it wasn't that difficult.
Now, maybe an opinion different than some expressed in the thread so far. I do not think that this issue is related to exhaling air underwater or not. To some extent, holding air underwater and exhaling it when face is outside the water (we all agree that it is not recommended) can only help the water left in your mouth to be thrown off the mouth when exhaling.
To me, the issue was more related to the fact that I was constantly swimming with some water in my mouth. That used to occur because I was just not paying enough attention to make sure it doesn't get in my mouth at the first place. Fixed the issue by using the Popeye sort of mouth (the lower half of it completely sealed).
