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
Parents
Former Member
Thanks Glenn! This is a great article, although I am surprised to read that the FVC can not, in fact be increased. I guess I had understood this in terms of what Steve (with the spirometer) below is referring to, and that some of you may know of some neat drills to train the lungs to be able to inhale more air at a time and also use it up (i.e. exhale) more slowly. I already do things like increasing my number of strokes between breathes, or gliding for a length underwater...
Thanks Glenn! This is a great article, although I am surprised to read that the FVC can not, in fact be increased. I guess I had understood this in terms of what Steve (with the spirometer) below is referring to, and that some of you may know of some neat drills to train the lungs to be able to inhale more air at a time and also use it up (i.e. exhale) more slowly. I already do things like increasing my number of strokes between breathes, or gliding for a length underwater...
