Why is breathing during swimming so hard bros? With a snorkel I can bust out a mile front crawl without problems, but without it I feel like drowning and completely gassed out after a few laps
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Why is breathing during swimming so hard bros?
breathe out in the water, breathe in out of the water, rotate to breathe instead of raising head
I do this, but I can’t get it to work for me. There must be something I’m doing wrong. I feel like my head is sinking to soon before I have finished my inhale.
weak neck might be the issue, or flap your hand slower to get used to it
>flap
meant stroke, take slower strokes
Might be flexibility too, but it feels like a rhytmic issue also. I’ll work on neck rotations and strokes for that good grip on water. Any technique exercises for breathing from swimpros are appreciated
synchronizing the movements of your feet and stroking of hands is a good start if you're doing freestyles, try it slowly, don't worry
Will try, thanks
One of the biggest things is hydrodynamics. You want your head to create a wake that you can breathe in without lifting your neck, just turning. Also making sure you are reaching out for with your arms so you don't upset the wake.
Push your mouth to the side. No more than half of your head should emerge. You also probably aren’t rolling with the stroke and it’s constricting your lungs
Take the neckpill.
learn basic technique moron
Because of all the water.
>I feel like drowning and completely gassed out after a few laps
Look up Hypoxic training to train your body to not freak out when you build a up a little bit of C02
Like this?
I feel like I will pass out if I go 25m without breathing
Also I swim alone so I’m scared to try
Learn to Side Stroke first, then Combat Side Stroke, then front crawl.
This will help you learn to move your whole body and turn your head when you go to breathe. Also helps teach you better exhaling in the water.
Alternatively, just triple your distance and time by doing side stroke or CSS the entire time for a work out. That's what I do just to make sure I can go a half mile or mile if need be.
Never got into css but it’s worth checking out, thanks
>CSS
not a real language, learn C instead
I have trouble doing the hand thing when you twist your body (and breathing subsequently). It's disorientating and I end up swimming diagonally. Real shame too because swimming is easy on the joints.
Swimmer here.
Odds are you’re not very aware but you’re
1-lifting your upper body to breathe instead of rolling side to side with your stroke. Your head should be tucked in like you’re looking at a bug on your shoulder when you breathe. Much easier on the lungs and less interference with your stroke. Obviously you do this as you roll to raise your arm (just barely) over the water and breathe toward your armpit.
Most people raise to look forward, then turn sideways as they re-enter. Terribly inefficient.
2-not exhaling underwater. When your head in in and down, you should be exhaling the whole time, hard. Getting the timing is tough but basically Your mouth should emerge only to suck enough air for 4-8 strokes, depending on how trained your lungs are and distance swimming (sprints: breathe as little as possible, distance: breathe regularly and calmly).
3-looking forward, not down, as you swim. Amateur swimmers put a tremendous amount of strain on their neck and back because they are concerned with looking forward to see the wall instead of down to maintain streamline and conserve energy. It also, like above, is more ideal for breathing and keeping your airway relaxed and your torso in an ideal breathing posture.
Hope that helps. Don’t ask me for advice on breast or butterfly. I could never get the timing.
Thanks for the in-depth comment swimbro. I will do some rolling-focused exercises, I think I definitely lift my upper body too much. Also I think don’t exhale hard enough underwater.
Will focus on this and report back, swim-anons.
Everything anon said is right, except don't exhale continuously underwater. Exhale sharply right before your breath. You actually want to take the shortest breath you can, don't try to give yourself extra breathing time or you'll slow and sink. Get used to taking frequent, snappy breaths.
Also, you should try to smooth out your breathing stroke so it barely disrupts your stroke at all. Don't look forward, don't lift your head out of the water. If you're reaching and rolling a little bit on each side, you won't need a big head movement to get your face out. Your chest and torso should already be twisting about 70 degrees to each side as you reach with each stroke.
Good swimmers will breathe once every 2 strokes for anything longer than a 100m race. Don't practice holding your breath, that's stupid and counterproductive unless you're doing a sprint. Practice breathing easily instead so you can go forever.
These make sense, thanks swim-anons. Todays session felt already better thanks to the tips in this thread
Humans were never meant to swim we are comically bad at it even at a world class level. It's there for emergencies and lounging. Thanks to brain you can hack the water as a resistance machine but humans will never be good at swimming. You will never be aquatic. You have no gills, you have no scales, you have no find. You are a bald monkey twisted by sports and exercise into a crude mockery of nature's perfection.
All the "validation" you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your back fish mog you. Sharks are disgusted and ashamed of you, amphibians laugh at your ghoulish appearance behind closed doors.
>Humans were never meant to swim
idk man aquatic ape theory is pretty compelling
there's a reason humans settle by water
>stoned ape theory
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pedo ape theory
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hairlessness being selected for by monkeys going for hairless pussy
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Would you describe yourself closer to Neanderthal features or incel features
>aquatic ape theory is pretty compelling
It's pretty stupid considering one of its premises is that we stand upright for fishing. Bears also fish and while they can stand upright they don't use it for catching fish.
I'm fkin done swimming bros... went swimming for 20 mins a day 5 days last week and my head has been itching like crazy since... wtf.
Wear a cap moron
>Why is breathing during swimming so hard bros
cuz ur under water moron
I don't want to blow your mind but the more you do it, the easy it gets.It's called training.
tuck your chin, lift your hips, etc..
basically get good and work on tour technique, the other swim anon had good points
After like 7 days of swimming I could do it naturally without thinking. It was hard as frick at first though
You breath every third stroke on every other side or yngmi