The main concept is relaxed while breathing. Breathing should feel like in land. Continuously breathing out beneath the water and allowing air to fill when one turns the head. The main mantra is relaxed breathing and not forcing anything. Once one can master breathing swimming becomes natural like walking. I can now swim 1 hour continuously without getting tired and I am a obese person. One doesn’t have to be fit for swimming. It’s all technique relaxed and natural.
I was the best swimmer at my school and thought I was good but had absolutely no clue about proper breathing techniques as I just taught myself. When I saw real club swimmers I was overwhelmed and quit. Now at 30 I’m getting back into it learning correct technique. Thanks for this.
It is so clear to understand here that not many people are able to explain this correct breathing technique to the point. Great explanation with the right details needed to understand the timing.
I am asthmatic still I wanted to learn swimming. 2 months back I started and it was absolutely difficult and challenging in each level of freestyle. But crossing 25meter was my goal and yesterday I was able to achieve that. Still lot of practice is required to improve/correct. I am doing back kicking also. I believe GoalHardworkPatience is the key .
Doing this now for 5 months at age 44 and finally getting the hang of it. Most important for me was to keep one goggle under water when inhaling (don’t look to the ceiling which will ruin your balance, drain your energy and hurt your neck).
I'm a pensioner learning to swim and my instructor says I'm doing really well but I'm finding it hard to learn to breathe which is so annoying! I found your video very helpful and I shall try my hardest to master this technique! Thank you.
The air pocket will only be big enough if you generate enough (and constant) speed. Compare a ship which is only slowly floating through the water: it will hardly have a bow wave. In this video, the swimmer is clearly swimming at a good speed. People who swim marathons / those who swim in open water / older people will use a different technique, with more lifting/rotating of the head and body, and usually less leg movement. A lot depends on your stature and mobility as well. So, in all, this video is fairly theoretical for many people.
it is the most efficient,wich is what this video is about,its not about teaching old people how to float,but to teach the most efficient way to breath while swimming fast
@@Popostarr You silly kid; you will also be old one day and that doesn't mean you can't swim freestyle then but in a different way as Christopher explains above
Thank you so much for this helpful video guide on how to breath while swimming. I really struggled swimming long distances because of not fully maximizing my oxygen intake. Now I know that timing is everything and to turn my head the moment I push off at the end of the pull through while breathing quickly. Never hold breath or it will cause fatigue and breath out half air under water.
I was literally in the pool before I could walk and when I was a kid I was a strong swimmer. As a teen I could swim miles in the lake without feeling tired. Then decades passed and I got older and fatter and forgot how to breathe! Sounds so stupid, but I get half way across an Olympic sized pool now and have to grasp the side or the ropes so I don't drown. I plan to try to practice these breathing techniques this week. Please pray that I don't suffer the humiliation of needing a lifeguard at the YMCA. Thank you for the pointers!
@@salvitiello2738 you have to push out the air while rotating your head, so push out under water and then breathe out a bit one your out of the water through your mouth and nose, and take a quick breath through the mouth
As a true blue beginner, this is an excellent video. I particularly like the "slow-motion" demonstration. Learning on my own, without any instruction, I found that wearing goggles helps immensely. The next thing I learned is that you need to exhale while underwater, whether through your nose or mouth I have yet to determine, but nevertheless you must "exhale". Holding your breath does not work However, I found that "exhaling" under water HAS caused water to get into my goggles which forces me to stand up and stop! I am still working at obtaining a "natural" swim, breathing like I'm on land, and hopefully I will find the rhythym and be able to master the beauty of a natural rhythmic swim!
Try to breathe out the whole time you're under water. Do it slowly with both nose and mouth. Always empty out your lungs completely before turning to breathe in again. Otherwise you end up with "stale" air in your lungs and won't be able to fill them up with fresh air completely. That will tire you out quicker. During turns (especially flip turns), press out air with more pressure through your nose to avoid getting water in your nose.
@@lemmy1945 thanks for the advice in the video they say to only empty half of your lungs and my problem always was that I felt like I was unable to inhale enough air when breathing and ending up being unable to even swim 50 meters because I ran out of air too quickly
@@FlamiShkatto Glad it worked out for you that way! Just to be precise I don't think that the content of the video is "wrong", but it applies to more trained swimmers that are able to swim at e.g. a 70-80% threshold level comfortably but still fast enough to maintain a good body position in the water. I personally think that's hard to keep up for a beginner and especially as a beginner you also have to train your diaphragm to operate the lungs efficiently. After a while, it might actually be advantagous to not breath out completely to get a buoyancy effect. I just don't believe that is applicable advice for swimmers that aren't very advanced yet.
The outward breathing you describe is contrary to a lot of coaches' advice about *replacing* your air from fully exhaling. Fully inhaling and exhaling prevents the Co2 build-up in your blood. Try examine the way you breathe while running. You wouldn't breathe out only 50% because then your intake will be a constant 50/50 mix, which creates a thing called 'oxygen debt' which happens when your body is having to catch up. Your 50/50 decreases to 40/60, 30/70, 20/80, then you'll feel you're suffocating. This would feel worse in the water, for you have the risk of becoming critically lethargic and accidentally swallowing water. But like anything, the more relaxed you are in your rhythm of breathing, the less need for you to *gasp* for air. Emphasizing the need to be relaxed will give the swimmer the grace of having oxygen in their system, compared to the 50/50 method in which you describe, that provides little oxygen saturation
Not true. When running you don’t do deep breathing in every breath, it’s fast rapid breathing If jogging, you would breath deeply only once in few cycles Deep breathing by definition takes 5 seconds for inhale and 5 for exhale. Also doing it fast by pushing diaphragm will make you hyper ventilate
Not true. When running you don’t do deep breathing in every breath, it’s fast rapid breathing If jogging, you would breath deeply only once in few cycles
@@dansin444 It can't be contrary if the example you're making isn't right. This 'rapid breathing' you describe requires you to work your intercostals (the muscles which expand your lungs) more, leading to more fatigue. Unless you're running a 100m race; efficient runners expand the lungs in a slow steady cadence to manage their energy to air ratio better. And by the way, if you knew how the aerobic system works, you can't by definition 'hyperventilate' while running. Any over saturation of oxygen will be absorbed by the body during exercise. e.g, Look into how oxygen doping works and why people do it ✌
when i was young i swim almost every sunday with my dad, pool and beach. Then when i came out to work, i barely touch swim anymore. Now I'm 32 and out of a sudden i feel like swimming again, i need to learn breathing more than posture, my body remember the movement but my lungs can't do that quick exchange anymore😅😅thanks to video like this to remind me a little before i go swimming next time.
I’m currently teaching myself how to swim after fkn 23 yrs of hating the water. It aint as bad as I thought it would be. I can swim and all now thankfully but I still cannot be completely relaxed. It’s hard multitasking while trying NOT to drown😂. But I’ll have to try out the exhaling underwater technique. I can see how it’d be more efficient. I gotta stop taking big gulps of air and holding onto them. Another issue is all the water going into my nose or mouth trying to inhale with poor head angle rotation but this’ll be figured out sooner or later :)
thanks so much for to share this excellent, awesome ,and very illustrative video,. I am learning to swim better with their videos really thanks very and extremely so much greetings from Mexico
@@bertholdtohoover446 I try to turn my body one side and take a breath. I am still working on breathing technique. Swimming requires a lot of practice.
I can see that the swimmer does not close his mouth while turning his head back in the water. How is one to handle the water coming into the mouth? For some reason, no one talks about this part :). Some suggest close the mouth complete before turning the head back, but somehow it sounds like a theoretically correct to do, but natural. Or perhaps it just a matter of getting used to having water in the mouth while turning back and not choking on it! then letting the water out of the mouth when underwater and getting ready for the next in-breath?
I'm still getting better at my breathing but for me, I just blow the water back out as I release my air underwater between breaths. My problem is sometimes I get enough rotation to get the breath in the first place but not every time 🙄
O h how nice it would be if we could all Breath under water. As someone who has only been learning to swim For one year I am still struggling with the breathing issue Doing front crawl. I know one day it will all click into place I hope.
getting mixed messages from all the experts - some say fully exhale and empty everything, and this vid says half......I'll give it a try. Frustrated over breathing and being out of breath after only a few laps.
I tried both and exhale half worked better for me. My coach says continuous exhaling but that would empty my lung so quick that I couldn’t breath on time. I think individual gotta experiment and test whichever fits their lungs best.
Yes me too. The advice is all over the place. However, you'll find that breathing fully out prevents the Co2 build-up in your blood. Try examine the way you breathe while running. You wouldn't breathe out only 50% because then your intake will be a constant 50/50 mix, which creates a thing called 'oxygen debt' which happens when your body is having to catch up. Your 50/50 decreases to 40/60, 30/70, 20/80, then you'll feel you're suffocating. But like anything, the more relaxed you are in your rhythm of breathing, the less need for you to *gasp* for air
@b4siclee Yeah I wouldn't say exhale until you've depleted 100% of your lungs, haha :P You'd fully exhale (80-90%) to give yourself enough fresh oxygen. When you run, you're receiving oncoming wind which helps to breathe. In the water, the air is stagnant, so you have to make sure enough fresh air is in your lungs
I am a swimming begginer but I want to train for a triathlon. First time I tried breathing it didn't really work. Best I could do was 3/4 of the pool without breathing in water. I have 6 months to try to learn untill I have to swim across 1km lake. Tomorrow I will try again.
My coach told me not to breath out too soon, he said I should hold my breathe, breath out only when I turn my head to the side to caught the air. I noticed by doing that, it seems like helping my body float up better and I have more control on the coordination of the hands and legs. Anyone have the same feeling like me?
when you tilt your head sideways out of water , it is to breathe in and not out .....it is inside water that you breathe out ( whether slow or fast is a different matter )
Yes this is the same technique my coach taught me. Hold breath and fully exhale through nose once you’re about to tilt body and head to catch air through your mouth. This video is confusing.
Question! Can I try lie on the floor and make the movement of breathing, in order to be forced in stomach and chest by the floor making difficult to breathe, so I used to it? For better practice during winter, when i cannot swim
I’m trying to get this breathing thing down but am struggling. What I will tell you is that you breath out through your nose underwater. When you turn your head out of the water, let the water out of your nose first then take that breath in (Don’t open your mouth before then). Don’t take in that breath until you let the water out of your nose above water. This is a detail people don’t think to include because it comes so natural for them.
I wish I could crack this, but I just can't. The rest of the stoke is fine, and breathing out is fine, but as soon as I try to take a breath, I just never feel confident that I have enough distance from the water, so I panic and end up lifting my head which messes up the whole stroke. More practice needed, but it's not happening at the moment.
I never learnt how to breath effectively when swimming so, I usually don't get my head up. Eventually I got used to it and now i can swim from and to the edge of the pool without breathing.
I've been repeatedly watching this video for the past few months. Just today, I started noticing this waterfall-like happening ALL OVER my face: 0:48 It's entirely natural and not deliberate. I suppose this means I'm almost there. As for those of you who are still learning from the seafood, I'm heading off the mountain. Just kidding, I'm still learning! :p
I used to swim so fast and freely when I was young, today in school when I tried to inhale while swimming I get so tired and keep on stopping and I came last while swimming....I need to improve
I realised watching this video how breathing disrupts streamlining and slows your motion. You can see the additional bow wave that forms against the swimmers head on breathing, even with a minimal head turn. So it would pay to train your body to work on less breathes per cycle eg breath every 5 arm strokes, say. It would take some lung training and body conditioning for long distance swimming, but your body is nothing if not adaptive!
The thing i learnt breathing is directly proportional to how much straight your body is in the water, the more you have legs on surface, easier to breathe, more your legs sink, difficult it becomes
Ugh I just can't do this. I can't tell if it's my asthma or if I'm doing something wrong, but after about three breaths I get so lightheaded and starved for air.
As my legs don't help in propulsion even when I kick, I have to use a pool buoy to keep me afloat when I do the free style. What am I doing wrong? My legs are short, and my torso is heavy; could that be the reason?
Are you keeping your head in the water like an arrow 🏹 and using your arms to pull the water behind you? If you are keeping your head lifted it will make your legs sink. You should be looking down until you rotate yourself to breathe.
My fourth swimming class today. Struggling to learn this skill. Wishing if could ever ever learn to swim like this. Not much facilities around me where i could go n learn. Can afford three days of the week for at least three months. I'm so desperate to swim with ease
Somehow I am not able to breathe properly this style Everytime I have to look a little backward to get space for breathing How to practice, so that i can breathe this way and more effectively
Why not exhale fully? My understanding has always been that it's important to exhale as much as possible to get rid of CO2 (which causes panic) and make room for fresh O2.
It’s Impossible to breathe out my nose… my mouth is no problem but when I try nose my stomach tenses like holding breath out of water. Humming doesn’t work. And I can’t hold my breath or water gets in my nose. What’s wrong with me?
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The main concept is relaxed while breathing. Breathing should feel like in land. Continuously breathing out beneath the water and allowing air to fill when one turns the head. The main mantra is relaxed breathing and not forcing anything. Once one can master breathing swimming becomes natural like walking. I can now swim 1 hour continuously without getting tired and I am a obese person. One doesn’t have to be fit for swimming. It’s all technique relaxed and natural.
Thank you, Rahul
Doubt you can swim distances for 1 hour straight being obese.
@@TheDazzler420 I believe it I know someone who is way fatter then me and can last a whole three hour class
Awesome mate 👏🏽👏🏽
@@TheDazzler420 what do you mean he just said he can ffs
As a self taught swimmer, this has been the biggest challenge to me. Trying to go back and master this at 39!
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Same here, have been doing it incorrect for many years already. Now taking the help of a coach
42 here. Struggling so much with this
Same here. I struggle with the breathing part, which is why I do a lot of backstroke.
what does your age have to do with it?
This guy's swimming is sooooo smooth!!
I was the best swimmer at my school and thought I was good but had absolutely no clue about proper breathing techniques as I just taught myself. When I saw real club swimmers I was overwhelmed and quit. Now at 30 I’m getting back into it learning correct technique. Thanks for this.
Luckily im 29 yr old atm.. And trying hard to learn proper techniques.. Realy hard to learn without instructor
u are not a good swimer. 🙏🙏🙏
@@BBtravelworld753 bruh
I'm 14 and breathing is kinda hard for me
@@BBtravelworld753 Love that you have nothing better to do than make other people's day worse. Smh, get a life
It is so clear to understand here that not many people are able to explain this correct breathing technique to the point. Great explanation with the right details needed to understand the timing.
I am asthmatic still I wanted to learn swimming. 2 months back I started and it was absolutely difficult and challenging in each level of freestyle. But crossing 25meter was my goal and yesterday I was able to achieve that. Still lot of practice is required to improve/correct. I am doing back kicking also. I believe
GoalHardworkPatience is the key .
Awesome story! Hope to do that as well!
Yea I got asthma too and wanted to learn how to swim, gonna be rough
Goodjob man
any updates 2 years later??
@@fbi559you can use a breathing pipe.
My breathing limits my workout and speed. I’ve gotta get this figured out. Looks so easy
Doing this now for 5 months at age 44 and finally getting the hang of it. Most important for me was to keep one goggle under water when inhaling (don’t look to the ceiling which will ruin your balance, drain your energy and hurt your neck).
I'm a pensioner learning to swim and my instructor says I'm doing really well but I'm finding it hard to learn to breathe which is so annoying! I found your video very helpful and I shall try my hardest to master this technique! Thank you.
The air pocket will only be big enough if you generate enough (and constant) speed. Compare a ship which is only slowly floating through the water: it will hardly have a bow wave. In this video, the swimmer is clearly swimming at a good speed. People who swim marathons / those who swim in open water / older people will use a different technique, with more lifting/rotating of the head and body, and usually less leg movement. A lot depends on your stature and mobility as well. So, in all, this video is fairly theoretical for many people.
it is the most efficient,wich is what this video is about,its not about teaching old people how to float,but to teach the most efficient way to breath while swimming fast
@@Popostarr You silly kid; you will also be old one day and that doesn't mean you can't swim freestyle then but in a different way as Christopher explains above
@@Popostarr “
@@brigitt8149 ok boomer
thank you for this comment, this is helpful!
Thank you so much for this helpful video guide on how to breath while swimming. I really struggled swimming long distances because of not fully maximizing my oxygen intake. Now I know that timing is everything and to turn my head the moment I push off at the end of the pull through while breathing quickly. Never hold breath or it will cause fatigue and breath out half air under water.
I was literally in the pool before I could walk and when I was a kid I was a strong swimmer. As a teen I could swim miles in the lake without feeling tired. Then decades passed and I got older and fatter and forgot how to breathe! Sounds so stupid, but I get half way across an Olympic sized pool now and have to grasp the side or the ropes so I don't drown. I plan to try to practice these breathing techniques this week. Please pray that I don't suffer the humiliation of needing a lifeguard at the YMCA. Thank you for the pointers!
Don't be embarrassed to get help from lifeguards. Some ymca lifeguards will even come try and help you swim. Just keep trying!
Don't be ashamed. This is natural and happened to me also.
@@its_m3_mimimy ymca lifeguard kid didn’t help till I had literally dropped to bottom.
Dont rely on kids to save you
Nothing more to explain.Understandable and detail explanation.Clear video. Thank you. Excellent work Thank you so much .
This is by far the best video explaining breathing while swimming! 👍🏼
I watched several videos with different advice and techniques. I like this one the most. I’m gonna try this way tomorrow. 😬
how did it go?
This is exactly how I'm feeling with this video.
When I swim with my head in the water , some drops of water always go up my nose 👃I don't get it Why ? I can't simply push air
@@salvitiello2738 same happens with me 🥺
@@salvitiello2738 you have to push out the air while rotating your head, so push out under water and then breathe out a bit one your out of the water through your mouth and nose, and take a quick breath through the mouth
As a true blue beginner, this is an excellent video. I particularly like the "slow-motion" demonstration. Learning on my own, without any instruction, I found that wearing goggles helps immensely.
The next thing I learned is that you need to exhale while underwater, whether through your nose or mouth I have yet to determine, but nevertheless you must "exhale".
Holding your breath does not work
However, I found that "exhaling" under water HAS caused water to get into my goggles which forces me to stand up and stop!
I am still working at obtaining a "natural" swim, breathing like I'm on land, and hopefully I will find the rhythym and be able to master the beauty of a natural rhythmic swim!
goggles?
Try to breathe out the whole time you're under water. Do it slowly with both nose and mouth. Always empty out your lungs completely before turning to breathe in again. Otherwise you end up with "stale" air in your lungs and won't be able to fill them up with fresh air completely. That will tire you out quicker. During turns (especially flip turns), press out air with more pressure through your nose to avoid getting water in your nose.
@@lemmy1945 thanks for the advice in the video they say to only empty half of your lungs and my problem always was that I felt like I was unable to inhale enough air when breathing and ending up being unable to even swim 50 meters because I ran out of air too quickly
@@FlamiShkatto Glad it worked out for you that way! Just to be precise I don't think that the content of the video is "wrong", but it applies to more trained swimmers that are able to swim at e.g. a 70-80% threshold level comfortably but still fast enough to maintain a good body position in the water. I personally think that's hard to keep up for a beginner and especially as a beginner you also have to train your diaphragm to operate the lungs efficiently. After a while, it might actually be advantagous to not breath out completely to get a buoyancy effect. I just don't believe that is applicable advice for swimmers that aren't very advanced yet.
@@lemmy1945video literally said don’t do that. Said to keep some air in lungs
Nothing more to explain.
Understandable and detail explanation.
Clear video. Thank you
Fantastic video! I will be saving it to re-watch and re-watch.
i have watched many videos and been practicing for last few weeks, but still couldn't ace breathing yet. hope this video will help me at next session
The camera work and editing are great. Well done!
The best video for breathing techniques
The outward breathing you describe is contrary to a lot of coaches' advice about *replacing* your air from fully exhaling.
Fully inhaling and exhaling prevents the Co2 build-up in your blood.
Try examine the way you breathe while running. You wouldn't breathe out only 50% because then your intake will be a constant 50/50 mix, which creates a thing called 'oxygen debt' which happens when your body is having to catch up.
Your 50/50 decreases to 40/60, 30/70, 20/80, then you'll feel you're suffocating. This would feel worse in the water, for you have the risk of becoming critically lethargic and accidentally swallowing water.
But like anything, the more relaxed you are in your rhythm of breathing, the less need for you to *gasp* for air. Emphasizing the need to be relaxed will give the swimmer the grace of having oxygen in their system, compared to the 50/50 method in which you describe, that provides little oxygen saturation
Not true. When running you don’t do deep breathing in every breath, it’s fast rapid breathing
If jogging, you would breath deeply only once in few cycles
Deep breathing by definition takes 5 seconds for inhale and 5 for exhale. Also doing it fast by pushing diaphragm will make you hyper ventilate
Not true. When running you don’t do deep breathing in every breath, it’s fast rapid breathing
If jogging, you would breath deeply only once in few cycles
@@dansin444 It can't be contrary if the example you're making isn't right.
This 'rapid breathing' you describe requires you to work your intercostals (the muscles which expand your lungs) more, leading to more fatigue. Unless you're running a 100m race; efficient runners expand the lungs in a slow steady cadence to manage their energy to air ratio better.
And by the way, if you knew how the aerobic system works, you can't by definition 'hyperventilate' while running. Any over saturation of oxygen will be absorbed by the body during exercise.
e.g, Look into how oxygen doping works and why people do it ✌
when i was young i swim almost every sunday with my dad, pool and beach. Then when i came out to work, i barely touch swim anymore. Now I'm 32 and out of a sudden i feel like swimming again, i need to learn breathing more than posture, my body remember the movement but my lungs can't do that quick exchange anymore😅😅thanks to video like this to remind me a little before i go swimming next time.
I’m currently teaching myself how to swim after fkn 23 yrs of hating the water. It aint as bad as I thought it would be. I can swim and all now thankfully but I still cannot be completely relaxed. It’s hard multitasking while trying NOT to drown😂. But I’ll have to try out the exhaling underwater technique. I can see how it’d be more efficient. I gotta stop taking big gulps of air and holding onto them. Another issue is all the water going into my nose or mouth trying to inhale with poor head angle rotation but this’ll be figured out sooner or later :)
I'm new to swimming and breathing is difficult, but this helps. Thanks !
This video summerizes freestyle swimming,i ve watched it so many times
Amazing video guys thanks!
❤ thank u for the gr8 tips like using a snorkel and the broom to help u move ur body. I haven't seen these on any other swim videos. 🙌
thanks so much for to share this excellent, awesome ,and very illustrative video,. I am learning to swim better with their videos really thanks very and extremely so much greetings from Mexico
Excellent presentation. Simply put 👌
not all human are blessed with ability to swim and breath properly , be grateful huhu
Literally everyone: listening to tips*
Me: wondering how long that fucking pool is*
Same
@@yomido4018 I go to this pool and it is only 50M.
@@jeromeibanez2891 in my club I have a 50M pool also
Much helpful. Thanks for the video
Good breathing sir
I'd go to my friend and flex saying " haha ik how to breath
Great job, knowledge expressed clearly, concisely and comprehensively.
Good ,easy to learn big help
It was very important , i appreciate your effort ,thank you
Excellent work
Thank you so much 💓
I will take swimming lessons. I really want to swim like this guy on this video. I will update you guys.
I am nearly there💃🏿
@@sanamichael8563 how do you breathe without inhaling water
@@bertholdtohoover446 I try to turn my body one side and take a breath. I am still working on breathing technique. Swimming requires a lot of practice.
@@sanamichael8563 You must be an expert by now 😂
Catch up drill might help you out, if you’re still working on it
❤❤❤❤❤ TY FOR HELPING My daughter
I can see that the swimmer does not close his mouth while turning his head back in the water. How is one to handle the water coming into the mouth? For some reason, no one talks about this part :). Some suggest close the mouth complete before turning the head back, but somehow it sounds like a theoretically correct to do, but natural. Or perhaps it just a matter of getting used to having water in the mouth while turning back and not choking on it! then letting the water out of the mouth when underwater and getting ready for the next in-breath?
I'm still getting better at my breathing but for me, I just blow the water back out as I release my air underwater between breaths. My problem is sometimes I get enough rotation to get the breath in the first place but not every time 🙄
am besten auf UA-cam.
I really like the way you brathing you are the best
This is so helpful! I cannot wait to practice this at my next lesson
1:31 key 🗝️ point for all the struggling beginner 🔰 like me
O h how nice it would be if we could all
Breath under water.
As someone who has only been learning to swim
For one year I am still struggling with the breathing issue
Doing front crawl.
I know one day it will all click into place
I hope.
Nice illustration
Still learning here. I'll catch some water, but trying to do the head tilt to get enough air in. Need to work on the timing.
良いですねー、肩が柔らかいの真似出来ないかな？
Wonderful explanation
getting mixed messages from all the experts - some say fully exhale and empty everything, and this vid says half......I'll give it a try. Frustrated over breathing and being out of breath after only a few laps.
I tried both and exhale half worked better for me. My coach says continuous exhaling but that would empty my lung so quick that I couldn’t breath on time. I think individual gotta experiment and test whichever fits their lungs best.
@@deepzerocool ok thanks for the suggestion
Yes me too. The advice is all over the place.
However, you'll find that breathing fully out prevents the Co2 build-up in your blood.
Try examine the way you breathe while running. You wouldn't breathe out only 50% because then your intake will be a constant 50/50 mix, which creates a thing called 'oxygen debt' which happens when your body is having to catch up.
Your 50/50 decreases to 40/60, 30/70, 20/80, then you'll feel you're suffocating.
But like anything, the more relaxed you are in your rhythm of breathing, the less need for you to *gasp* for air
@b4siclee Yeah I wouldn't say exhale until you've depleted 100% of your lungs, haha :P
You'd fully exhale (80-90%) to give yourself enough fresh oxygen.
When you run, you're receiving oncoming wind which helps to breathe. In the water, the air is stagnant, so you have to make sure enough fresh air is in your lungs
More like exhale 2/3
Your have really helped me to improve my swinging career 👍
Swimming
Awesome vid
Thanks a lot.
I just realised & picked important point that I should breath out completely.
I am a swimming begginer but I want to train for a triathlon. First time I tried breathing it didn't really work. Best I could do was 3/4 of the pool without breathing in water. I have 6 months to try to learn untill I have to swim across 1km lake. Tomorrow I will try again.
My coach told me not to breath out too soon, he said I should hold my breathe, breath out only when I turn my head to the side to caught the air. I noticed by doing that, it seems like helping my body float up better and I have more control on the coordination of the hands and legs. Anyone have the same feeling like me?
then when do you breath in?
when you tilt your head sideways out of water , it is to breathe in and not out .....it is inside water that you breathe out ( whether slow or fast is a different matter )
This is very true me too i started holding my breath for long and my swimming became easy
Yes this is the same technique my coach taught me. Hold breath and fully exhale through nose once you’re about to tilt body and head to catch air through your mouth. This video is confusing.
you need to breath out when your head is under water. trust me. My problem is getting enough air during my stroke.
Great video, but how do you gage how much exhale constitutes 1/2 a lung’s worth ?
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Question! Can I try lie on the floor and make the movement of breathing, in order to be forced in stomach and chest by the floor making difficult to breathe, so I used to it? For better practice during winter, when i cannot swim
how not to drink the water?
some water will go in when you open your mouth to breath.. but don't swallow.. just blow it back out when u put your face back in the water.
I’m trying to get this breathing thing down but am struggling. What I will tell you is that you breath out through your nose underwater. When you turn your head out of the water, let the water out of your nose first then take that breath in (Don’t open your mouth before then). Don’t take in that breath until you let the water out of your nose above water. This is a detail people don’t think to include because it comes so natural for them.
@@ebonysmith9564 thank you, I will practice in this as this is currently my obstacle
@@jimbochoo3316 thank you, i will practice this one as this seems like a roadblock for me
Perfect video
I wish I could crack this, but I just can't. The rest of the stoke is fine, and breathing out is fine, but as soon as I try to take a breath, I just never feel confident that I have enough distance from the water, so I panic and end up lifting my head which messes up the whole stroke. More practice needed, but it's not happening at the moment.
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I never learnt how to breath effectively when swimming so, I usually don't get my head up. Eventually I got used to it and now i can swim from and to the edge of the pool without breathing.
Nice video
what wheres the air pocket? all i get is water streaming down my head and face, filling my mouth if i try to inhale.
Exactly.
😂 Hope it got better with time
You need speed to create this air pocket.
Try with fins (to create speed).
I've been repeatedly watching this video for the past few months. Just today, I started noticing this waterfall-like happening ALL OVER my face:
0:48
It's entirely natural and not deliberate. I suppose this means I'm almost there. As for those of you who are still learning from the seafood, I'm heading off the mountain. Just kidding, I'm still learning! :p
I used to swim so fast and freely when I was young, today in school when I tried to inhale while swimming I get so tired and keep on stopping and I came last while swimming....I need to improve
I realised watching this video how breathing disrupts streamlining and slows your motion. You can see the additional bow wave that forms against the swimmers head on breathing, even with a minimal head turn. So it would pay to train your body to work on less breathes per cycle eg breath every 5 arm strokes, say. It would take some lung training and body conditioning for long distance swimming, but your body is nothing if not adaptive!
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Just a question for you about the blowing mechanism through which I must blow air underwater. It does not work for me
Do you take in water while breathing? I imagine water getting in your mouth while you breathe in is bound to happen? It does for me.
The thing i learnt breathing is directly proportional to how much straight your body is in the water, the more you have legs on surface, easier to breathe, more your legs sink, difficult it becomes
The starting line of the video 💀
I see his mouth being open when diving back. Does he fill his mouth with water because of that? If yes, how to deal with it?
Thanks
It's very useful.for me
Perfect
so, it's normal for me to get a little bit of water in my mouth when swimming?
I’m taking swuimming lessons and it’s difficult specially the breathing
Same! Every time I feel like I made a break through I forget by the next class
@@kgales457 we can do it don’t stop.
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Do these guys wear ear plugs? cause when i try to breathe on the left side i instantly get water in my ear
Ugh I just can't do this. I can't tell if it's my asthma or if I'm doing something wrong, but after about three breaths I get so lightheaded and starved for air.
As my legs don't help in propulsion even when I kick, I have to use a pool buoy to keep me afloat when I do the free style. What am I doing wrong? My legs are short, and my torso is heavy; could that be the reason?
Are you keeping your head in the water like an arrow 🏹 and using your arms to pull the water behind you? If you are keeping your head lifted it will make your legs sink. You should be looking down until you rotate yourself to breathe.
My ear that is out while breathing hurts as soon as I draw a breath, can you tell me what I might be doing wrong.
My fourth swimming class today. Struggling to learn this skill. Wishing if could ever ever learn to swim like this. Not much facilities around me where i could go n learn. Can afford three days of the week for at least three months. I'm so desperate to swim with ease
Stay patient and learn in parts. Forcing your body to naturally breathe in water is tough, it has to get used to it with proper technique. Good luck.
Somehow
I am not able to breathe properly this style
Everytime I have to look a little backward to get space for breathing
How to practice, so that i can breathe this way and more effectively
Why not exhale fully? My understanding has always been that it's important to exhale as much as possible to get rid of CO2 (which causes panic) and make room for fresh O2.
If you don't exhaust all the air from your lungs then you need to breathe in a smaller amount of air , that's why.
It’s Impossible to breathe out my nose… my mouth is no problem but when I try nose my stomach tenses like holding breath out of water. Humming doesn’t work. And I can’t hold my breath or water gets in my nose. What’s wrong with me?
Turn your head without lifting it is key
Everytime I try to breathe while freestyle swimming water goes up my nose and into my throat. How do I prevent that?
So you breathe in through your mouth when you turn?
When to exhale after inhale in freestyle
Looks easy, but this is so freaking difficult.
I've just started "swimming" and found out that I actually don't know how to swim.
Very good 🧕🇲🇦👌👍🏊♀️
while taking breath, why water always enter to my ear, please advice ?
You can use ear plug made for swimmers.
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The breathing technique is that the faster you stroke the faster you breath the slower you stroke the slower you breath
when I turn my head to the side to inhale.. i always end up drinking water
how to avoid this !!