How To Breathe When Swimming

Breathing in while your face is underwater is not the best respiratory strategy and air is absolutely necessaryif youre planning to swim more than about 50 yards.

How to breathe when swimming. Grab the edge of the pool and continue to blow bubbles while getting into a horizontal position with the face down. Stand in chest deep water in the pool facing the wall hands on the pool edge. Freestyle is the fastest swimming stroke and the only stroke in which you dont lift your face out of the water to breathe. Your belly not your chest or shoulders should expand with the breath.

Inhale deeply before you start swimming. Next we repeated that sequence with the lower arm extended. Start to blow bubbles. Rotate your head as you exhale tilting it to the side toward the surface of the water.

The main problem with breathing to one side all the time is that it usually creates a hitch or imbalance in one side. As a result the proper breathing technique is the most difficult freestyle skill for many novice swimmers to master. Crouch down in shallow water until your face is submerged. These two obvious truths made it necessary to create swimming strokes that allow the mouth and nose to exit the water to access the air.

Take a long deep breath from the bottom of your lungs. Relax the side and back of your head into the water as you breathe. Once you have a full inhalation start swimming. Establish an unbroken rhythm of mouth inhale nose exhale.

Switch to one sided breathing for moderatehard distance and mid distance sets. Instead you turn your head to one side. If youre looking for new methods to increase your breathing control when swimming and performing your stroke then this video shows you a few different ideas in order to get the best breath. Bend over at the waist breathe in and place your face in the water.

Slowly but forcefully blow out the air in your lungs through your nose and mouth.