My coach is having us experiment by breathing every other stroke or every third stroke in *** stroke. I see why he thinks it could be faster, but I get extremely winded by doing only every other stroke and I can't imagine doing more than a 50 this way. He wants us to work up to being able to do a 200 breathing every third stroke and anything less, every fifth. If this truely is faster, why haven't we seen any Olympic swimmers doing this? What are your thoughts?
Good luck with that, it sounds pretty crazy. Maybe there might be some speed benefit in it but it sounds like you'd lose more than that from the oxygen debt you'd be going into.
I get terribly winded after just a 50 *** breathing every stroke and I'm a breaststroker. As it is *** is a very oxygen-heavy stroke, especially with the pullouts. That and breathing not every time seems like it'd really throw the rhythm off.
It'd be interesting to see if oxygen debt could be taken out of the equation a bit by doing 25s fully rested and comparing times. Do one breathing every stroke, one breathing every other, etc, and see if it's any faster. I kinda doubt it's faster to no breath every stroke, certainly not much faster.
Seems suicidal to me. Breaststroke already sucks enough without making it harder.
Good luck with that, it sounds pretty crazy. Maybe there might be some speed benefit in it but it sounds like you'd lose more than that from the oxygen debt you'd be going into.
I get terribly winded after just a 50 *** breathing every stroke and I'm a breaststroker. As it is *** is a very oxygen-heavy stroke, especially with the pullouts. That and breathing not every time seems like it'd really throw the rhythm off.
It'd be interesting to see if oxygen debt could be taken out of the equation a bit by doing 25s fully rested and comparing times. Do one breathing every stroke, one breathing every other, etc, and see if it's any faster. I kinda doubt it's faster to no breath every stroke, certainly not much faster.
Seems suicidal to me. Breaststroke already sucks enough without making it harder.
