Hi,
I feel having more and more oxygen debt as doing more and more flip turn when swimming continuously. There must be something wrong with my technique, like badly timing the last breath before turn and staying too deep and long off the wall. How can you cope with this lack of air problem?
Thanks and regards!
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I have been suffering from the same problem.
I have personally found that the oxygen deprivation is just not worth it at the cost of hitting the wall during a workout. I breath every other stroke and into and out of every turn, including sneaking in a breath into the turn if my stroke is not timed right. As I started doing distance sets this summer I had to shamefully resort to open turns after a couple thousand yards. But I found it liberating to admit that I just couldn't handle the turns as I was able to complete grueling sets without losing speed. After a while it has become less and less of an issue.
I don't know that any coach would agree with this strategy. I used to force myself to swim 500+ yards warmup breathing every 3rd stroke but I don't feel like it ever got me anywhere besides miserable.
I'm hoping that the distance swimming will help me explode into and out of the turns when I go back to sprinting this fall - but I'm not holding my breath.
I have been suffering from the same problem.
I have personally found that the oxygen deprivation is just not worth it at the cost of hitting the wall during a workout. I breath every other stroke and into and out of every turn, including sneaking in a breath into the turn if my stroke is not timed right. As I started doing distance sets this summer I had to shamefully resort to open turns after a couple thousand yards. But I found it liberating to admit that I just couldn't handle the turns as I was able to complete grueling sets without losing speed. After a while it has become less and less of an issue.
I don't know that any coach would agree with this strategy. I used to force myself to swim 500+ yards warmup breathing every 3rd stroke but I don't feel like it ever got me anywhere besides miserable.
I'm hoping that the distance swimming will help me explode into and out of the turns when I go back to sprinting this fall - but I'm not holding my breath.
