Crawl Stroke Breathing
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Crawl Stroke Breathing
How to get the breathing working sooner, one asks.
Lately I have been working on pull technique by breathing to the left on every 4th stroke. Attempting to do multiple laps unsuccessfully.
I manage to do the first 2 laps of 30m in one go but bonk on the 3rd. Then I have to stop for a few seconds gasping for breath after the ensuing laps.
I try hard to do a puff out on the first 3 strokes and breathe in on the 4th. I know how important it is to exhale hard.
This stop-start continues for about 25x30 m laps but then suddenly it seems my breathing seems happier and I can do multiple laps! This is showing the importance of a decent warmup swim before trying to do a race.
So I wonder how to get the breathing working properly sooner in the session?
Lately I have been working on pull technique by breathing to the left on every 4th stroke. Attempting to do multiple laps unsuccessfully.
I manage to do the first 2 laps of 30m in one go but bonk on the 3rd. Then I have to stop for a few seconds gasping for breath after the ensuing laps.
I try hard to do a puff out on the first 3 strokes and breathe in on the 4th. I know how important it is to exhale hard.
This stop-start continues for about 25x30 m laps but then suddenly it seems my breathing seems happier and I can do multiple laps! This is showing the importance of a decent warmup swim before trying to do a race.
So I wonder how to get the breathing working properly sooner in the session?
cottmiler- Posts : 460
Join date : 2016-12-07
Re: Crawl Stroke Breathing
cottmiler wrote:
...I manage to do the first 2 laps of 30m in one go but bonk on the 3rd. Then I have to stop for a few seconds gasping for breath ...
Um! Could it be that the years are just "piling up" - and we are regrettably no longer "young bucks"!!!

I've noticed with sadness, that gradually, we have to ease off (or even halt) some formerly enjoyable and "do-able" things!
I do like doing my couple of laps of "inhaling on every 4th FS arm stroke". It enables us to concentrate on some points - in my case, "pressing the buoy" to bring the legs up nearer the surface, and now

Don Wright- Posts : 223
Join date : 2017-07-11
Age : 86
Location : Telford, Shropshire

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