Hi Everyone,
I have a serious breathing problem when swimming freestyle.
Either I hold my breath - which I know is a very bad habit for several reason or I try to blow it out - which is the way to swim I know.
The problem is, that whenever I breath out under water I either end up having some air left in the lungs, or run out of air while still doing strokes and eventually when I get to the stroke where I planned to come up for air I gasp for air and have water going down my throat.
Because of these I don't have time for breathing in properly.
In the same time water goes up in my nose if I blow out all the air from my lungs uinder water- which I read the way to go (to blow all the water while under) in order to only breath in when breaking the surface for air.
I often end up with lots of air in my stomach which makes me belch...
In addition I have a low endurance. I can do only 1 or 2 laps at a time...
I have a personal coach but it's not so much he can do from outside of the pool.
I noticed that I cannot swim smooth, effortlessly - which is one of my goals in the long run, beside being able to swim long distances in all strokes.
I always end up swimming relatively fast, when I should be going slow and focusing on my technic.
Should I slow WAY down somehow?
Any advice/drill is welcommed.
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Thanks for the tips guys. I'll definatelly give this bobbing and treading a try.
I have a pull buoy and I find it very usefull to work with. I'm so much more relaxed, when not using my legs at all. Like today. It also helps to rotate the body. I can focus on the hands and breathing much more.
This coach of mine is a 6 time World Champion Penthatloner (spell?).
Was national for Hungary for more than 10 years,was supposed to go to the Olympics (Barcelona, Atlanta) as the best in Hungary. But he wasn't choosen because he did not train in Budapest...:confused:. (it is a thing in Hungary. If you don't go to the mighty Budapest you have no real chance to succeed in anything.)
So in other words I'm confident I'm in good hands.
But still I'm just a recreational swimmer so it's not like we do drills and train like crazy 7 times a week. I swim with the coach once a week and go for 2 more times a week by myself.
Before I went to this coach I was getting better. Could swim for longer times, with more backstrokes and frontcrawl and not only *** stroke- which I can do easily and relaxed.
From the beginnig we started to do drills only (catch up, zipper, fingertip drag, etc) with and without fins.
I thought that my swimming improved but when I tried to implement all that I learned I realized that my technic has fallen apart. And on the top of that my endurance dropped huge. I could barely swim 1 lap. Almost like Eric the eel from the Olympics in 2000.
I feel like if I could breath properly the main problem would be fixed and I would became a much better swimmer...
Thanks for the tips guys. I'll definatelly give this bobbing and treading a try.
I have a pull buoy and I find it very usefull to work with. I'm so much more relaxed, when not using my legs at all. Like today. It also helps to rotate the body. I can focus on the hands and breathing much more.
This coach of mine is a 6 time World Champion Penthatloner (spell?).
Was national for Hungary for more than 10 years,was supposed to go to the Olympics (Barcelona, Atlanta) as the best in Hungary. But he wasn't choosen because he did not train in Budapest...:confused:. (it is a thing in Hungary. If you don't go to the mighty Budapest you have no real chance to succeed in anything.)
So in other words I'm confident I'm in good hands.
But still I'm just a recreational swimmer so it's not like we do drills and train like crazy 7 times a week. I swim with the coach once a week and go for 2 more times a week by myself.
Before I went to this coach I was getting better. Could swim for longer times, with more backstrokes and frontcrawl and not only *** stroke- which I can do easily and relaxed.
From the beginnig we started to do drills only (catch up, zipper, fingertip drag, etc) with and without fins.
I thought that my swimming improved but when I tried to implement all that I learned I realized that my technic has fallen apart. And on the top of that my endurance dropped huge. I could barely swim 1 lap. Almost like Eric the eel from the Olympics in 2000.
I feel like if I could breath properly the main problem would be fixed and I would became a much better swimmer...
