Hello all,
I am new to this forum, as well as to competitive masters swimming (nutshell: swim club member in my youth, returned to it as an adult solely for exercise, but something about turning 40 made me want to get more serious:)
Reading posts on this forum, I have seen people talking about implementing things like t-shirt swimming, parachute (??), as well as dryland training wearing a snorkel (seriously?;).
Can anyone say anymore about the tricks they use to improve lung capacity. I need 0-1 breath on the 25m, but a whopping 5-7 when I do a 50m.
Thanks!
Jennifer
There's a little plastic meter (spirometer) used at hospitals which calculates the amount of air you can inhale. My dad gave me the one he had to use. I noticed with practice I can gradually increase the volume of one breath as I went from moving guage through cylinder from 1⅓ times (5300) to 1⅔ times (6600) for one breath. With this it more about how much of the total air in your lungs you can expel prior to inhaling. With practice you can increase this
There's a little plastic meter (spirometer) used at hospitals which calculates the amount of air you can inhale. My dad gave me the one he had to use. I noticed with practice I can gradually increase the volume of one breath as I went from moving guage through cylinder from 1⅓ times (5300) to 1⅔ times (6600) for one breath. With this it more about how much of the total air in your lungs you can expel prior to inhaling. With practice you can increase this
