Common Freestyle Breathing Mistakes
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Common mistakes that can trouble freestylers during the breathing portion of the stroke. Whether you're just learning to swim, or are already a seasoned pro, these tips will have you breathing easier in no time.
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Not even 3 minutes long yet this is packed with extremely important information. I wish more videos were done like this. Looking forward to hitting the pool tomorrow now!
THIS WORKS FOR ME: I found regulating breath-intake difficult; then I thought that perhaps I could learn from how I breathe when SINGING. This too also involves taking a quick breath of as much air as you plan to use and then controlling the exhaling. So I started to sing "to myself" as I swim-easier because I breathe every four strokes, and there are a lot of songs in 4/4 so one line of the song will work out as one cycle of strokes (I started with "Up a Lazy River"). It works really well-helps you relax, coordinate movement and, if you think of singing to yourself around the house at a low volume (not reaching the back of an opera house), it helps you take small breaths too. And it's fun.
2.46 minutes of simple but sound advice. The exhalation advice is a gamechanger for me and everything else has just clicked into place.
Top man
This is the best teaching for good freestyle swimming. When i was beginner, i had watched it but just had thought that it was just a drill. But now I can understand this is the best and all of swimming.
Love it! the best short and sweet explanation I've seen so far on how to breath correctly when freestyling.
I'm not new in swimming but had not done it in many years. Lately I decided to swim again and realized I'd forgot how to breathe right when doing freestyle. Great info! Thanks for the video!
I saw this one 7 years ago and forget to say thank you, my boy at 5th grade can swim half a mile in ymca, 25 yards length for 32 laps, contest. Totally worked.
Very grateful.
Thanks for the excellent tips! You answered the exact questions I had going into my search as I try to learn how to swim laps efficiently.
thanks man, I overroll a LOT, this will help
Great lesson . Very helpful for me, my kids, my niece to use this technique to practice and it works.
Thanks a lot.
Thank you finally someone that explain how to properly breath
these techniques are amazing i could do 20 laps instead of my usual 13......IN JUST ONE DAY ...thankx man
Great tips, I have been holding my breath until end of second stroke. I will try continuous exhale now and hope to improve!
Excellent video. I will watch several times and try to follow the instructions. Thanks.
Awesome I think I got it now. I will try it tomorrow
This was a really helpful video thanks l!
Thanks! Beginning swimmer, but I've been in water polo.
I keep swallowing water if a keep one goggle under the whater, I don't know what to do
julittok Same here.
It might have something to do with your stroke. If you slow down to take a breathe water will mostly likely rush in, but if you keep a steady pace it'll smoothly create an air pocket. I had the same problem a week ago.
Just think about it!
julittok keep kicking while turning to the side and breathing.
I hate it , I am drinking lots of pool water doing free style :(
Thanks, don't know what happened, but simply lost all ability to remember how I'd always been breathing. So helpfull, thank-you ever so much for the reminders.
Great video. After years of British masters swimming I am trying to correct the many faults in my freestyle (front crawl) stroke and this is really helpful
Thank you for your nice massage.
Hi!I have found out that if you turn your head with the mouth just 1 cm above the water surface and you don't raise your forehead out of the water,there is much lower drag that taking the head completely out of the water.I also foud out that moving your head as little as possible,keeps the drag to a minimum and thus a constant speed thru water.
Wow. I think you use gliding. Your pose is good. When you conduct water, your power is really good. Thank you for post good video. I think I learn something useful.
Really helpful :) I Love swimming and am getting back into it after a few lazy years off (woops). One of my main issues is breathing, unfortunately i seem to struggle to time breathing alongside my strokes (front crawl normally) and this means i'm almost always having to stop after only one length to catch my breath :/ Also does anyone else find that when they try not to lift their head too far out of the water they end up with a mouthful of the water? :( xx
Are you still learning swimming?
Very well explained ! Thanks
kinda perfected my right side . can breath in and see everything underwater with left eye while inhaling
now i have do it all over again for left side)) which means gonna drink half of the pool again ))
freaking hate it , my stomach will bloat and hurt after each practice again
HAha I don't know if I drink that much, but it does suck when I take a gulp of water
No.3 is a game changing point for me!
I was actually the inventor of swimming altogether. People before 1956-8 just sank to the bottom and were never seen again. I invented everything concerning swimming and competative swimming at my invention of the olympic swimming pool at the DYC Detroit.
Your highly likley to not be over 65 or youd remember mortal fear of water and not being able to swim
Michael Thomas lol gtfo outta here
Michael Thomas 3
Thank you for this helpful video.
Peter Oakes vbgnbn
Thanks much!
Summing up- 1.Constantly Leg beating should be there.
2. Look Down 90° preferably always. Or a little diagonal.
3. One gogle in and one out while taking breathe.
This was a really helpful video.............
Great tips. I'll see how I can use this tips today in the pool.Need some tips on how to get that chin low which is so tough especially for beginners.
Impressive presentation.
thanks again for the tip for the freestyle in swimming
I'm excited to try this. My goal this year is to become a stronger swimmer, and I can only do about 10 laps with rest time in between. I always feel like I'm getting fatigued, and I figured it was because of my lack of continuous oxygen, so this confirmed that. I didn't realize the pocket of air was there. I feel like I'm always gasping for air, even right after taking a breath. So it could be a combination of me holding my breath too long, and also the fact that I'm out of shame, haha. Thanks for the instruction! I'll give it a go.
Are you a better swimmer than before now?
Great tips and easy to apply!
Thank you sir, just what I needed to know
Thank you, This video was just what I needed. Gotta thank Coach lilonga😊
I over rotate, gotta try this drill.
Thanks for the video. Very useful tips
We will see you in the pool soon!
I find this video very helpful. I didn't know that I've been doing some things wrong lol. Thank you for this!
Thanks
this video is exactly what i need
thanks!!
great video thanks for sharing.
Very helpful! I find that sometimes while I'm trying to improve other areas of my front crawl technique, that I'm holding my breath! :/ It has decreased the distance by which I can swim by about half at times. When you start to get winded this way...recovering from it creates all sorts of bad technique, further draining your energy needlessly.
I find that I'm constantly thinking about my legwork...I'm probably kicking too often and draining my energy there as well.
Nice video.
many thanks sir, it's really working ...
Wow, now I know why I never can do freestyle for too long. My breathing sucks, which tires me out so quickly. Good tips.
That just turning your chin part 💯
Thank you
THIS HELPED SO MUCH WITH EXHALING I WAS EXHALING THROUGH MY MOUTH TY
Just started swimming and when i try to freestyle swim i feel like im getting panic attacks when my face is underwater. I have no problem with diving but when i freestyle i feel like im not getting enough air.
Same here
That sometimes happens with me usually starting on my 3rd to 4th lap.
Athena Chen Well after three weeks of training (maybe) it should all start feeling more natural.
I swam from age 4 to 16, and only on my last every length did it all come together and i beat my pools record set by my Olympic coach who was 30 when he set it. 16 years on and i got back in a pool only a few days ago and i'm back to being 4, i can hardly do two lengths without not getting enough air breathing every fourth stroke. It will get better.
World Wide Quiz thank you. Ive masterd it quite well actually. :)
@Daniel Z can you please share your experience? How did you master it ? I too feel suffocated and shortness of breath.. even though I take my head out for breathe, it feels like I did not get enough air and I stand for air in the middle of the pool
need to perfect this,was a helpful video,will comment after next drill
I swim competitiely and if u have a freestyle breathing problems u should do this drill put ur hand in front of u and keep ur mouth right above the water do this for a few 50s right hand down and left hand back also breath to ur left the first 25 and right coming back
Excellent video. My time was well-spent. Thank you.
Exhale, Exhale, Exhale. Thank you. Im 37 years old and still trying to swim and breath at the same time.
Great advice! I'm having a hard time get a breathe, but now I see what I'm doing wrong.
Good! very useful. thank you!
Thanks. Two good tips I picked up: look behind, and exhale through nose.
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Rangilara
best explanation
Good practice!
A good video, I always struggle with proper breathing form while swimming.
Super video. Every aspect is to the point. Thanks!
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@@USMastersSwimming Done! My bad hadn't done it before!
Thank you for this information .
i dont usually open my mouth when i breath then i stop at 25 meters in 50meterpool ill try this thanks great help
Very helpful thank you
Very helpfull. Thanks..
thanks for the video! really helpful :)
Super!
Awesome - we like it ☺
Thanks for the tips. After many many years, I finally leaned to breathe through my mouth. In our 75' pool, I need to pause and take a few breaths before completing the lap. I am not breathing through my nose. It seems, I need to exhale through the nose AS WELL so when I come up for air, I can take in through mouth as well as nose. Is this right?
Great!...Thank you!
Thanks ! very informative
Great lesson. Thank you.
I'm stuck, I've been trying to learn breathing for almost a year. I have the unfortunate body type that sinks, don't know if that's the issue. Also seems each time I "turn" to breathe, I gulp water....dont' know if its because I'm rushing it or if it's my sinking problem.
Great instructions！
i'm soooooooo guilty of this... all of it
I have a problem with the stroke in freestyle, I have been watching the video and realize that the timing is my problem I can not keep the arm in front waiting for the recovery of the other arm. Thanks
Thanks for the advice!
great stuff! Thanks.
I love swimming
mistakes is so awesome to learn we want a mistake that you can learn from it then you can do better
very helpful
Any thoughts on using a decongestant before swimming?
very good!
I tried doing this (constantly enhaling) and while I always had breath, it seemed as if my body had way too much oxygen and everything felt weird. I tried it for about a km, then went back to my old bad habbit of starting to exhale the stroke before you'll enhale. What did I do wrong?
thanks a lot. Question: If one eye is in the water while breathing, won't water get in the mouth?
For most people it doesn't, some people do a "grrrr" mouth so only the high side is open
Great !
I've watched damn near every video, had two coaches and have spent 2 months trying to learn freestyle and all I've gotten is more and more confused! " The air at the surface is just as good as the air 10" above" smart ass Stu! We (me, I) rotate so i can get air! Not "A bite of air" as you say, but a freaking lung full. I'm a distance runner and I don't exhale for 3 to 4 strides before i inhale, so why is this coached in swimming. So confused. Gonna give this till the end of October(3rd month) then i'm sticking to land based sports.
Wow I've been corrected many times through this vid, firstly, with the breathing that turning almost my whole head back to the surface because I thought if my face would still be with the waters some water will rush to my mouth while inhaling.
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I've been learning freestyle swimming for two weeks (4 occasions ) and I still suck at it... I was wondering maybe I have too small lungs :D but after watching this I realized that probably my biggest problem is bad exhaling
I also have some issues with arm technique, I can stroke harder with my left arm than with my right therefore when I try to inhale on the left side I feel like I'm sinking
Now I'm in the 2nd month of learning freestyle swimming and at the 8th occasion. I had a two week break and when I returned to practice I improved a lot. Now I don't have breathing problems anymore. I slowly increased the distance that I swam without a break, and now I feel like I could swim hundreds of meters without problem. All I have to do in the future is to improve efficiency.
I have the same problem with my eaxling and tend to run out of breath easily. I now realise it is really important to breathe out whilst underwater as if you don't, when you go to take your breath you breathe out rather than breathe in and get fatigued faster. :)
Azure Arkooburra same problem for me...going to work on breathing so damn important haha
am a put this to the test,sounds legit
Thank you!
can all these applied to open sea swimming?
Thank you ! Very useful
Now I'm confused, some other videos on UA-cam recommend rolling to your side to facilitate head rotation and therefore breathing, and it is also a more streamline position. Here I read comments saying that we should not roll our body to the side while breathing. Which one is it?
Ikr, the Phelps coach said to roll and not move the head. Very confusing stuff!
Ceekay420 This is pretty much it. I would understand not to roll our head every stroke, but no body rotation at all... Sounds wrong. No body rotation means shoulder injury and difficulty reaching for air when side breathing.
You should roll a little. Just not too much.
why the water on the back not moving? I just wondered
thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good!!!
I'm not sure why, but I have the most difficult time breathing out my nose. It's like the water gets stuck. I'm a beginner, what am I doing wrong?
I only recently learnt swimming and while I can easily exhale through the nose when I first start, when I take my head out to get more air, when I bring it into the pool again, I find it extremely difficult to exhale through the nose and wind up holding my breath until I bring my head back up and eventually have to stop because I end up getting water either up my nose or swallow a little bit of it. Any way to correct that?