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!
I've seen some really fast distance swimmers (last heat at New England Masters championship meets) do open turns the whole 1000. Didn't seem to slow them down.
I also have read somewhere that there is new thinking about breathing as you go into the wall for a turn, that it is OK to take a breath along with your last pull as you flip over. I'm with that approach.
I agree with what I want to say Coyote says but I don't think that's his name: especially for long distances, say, a hypothetical 10K, just streamlining off the wall, no kicking whatsoever, for me, saved me a lot of energy. It was my rest period.
But I'm not setting any records.
I've seen some really fast distance swimmers (last heat at New England Masters championship meets) do open turns the whole 1000. Didn't seem to slow them down.
I also have read somewhere that there is new thinking about breathing as you go into the wall for a turn, that it is OK to take a breath along with your last pull as you flip over. I'm with that approach.
I agree with what I want to say Coyote says but I don't think that's his name: especially for long distances, say, a hypothetical 10K, just streamlining off the wall, no kicking whatsoever, for me, saved me a lot of energy. It was my rest period.
But I'm not setting any records.
