Common Freestyle Breathing Mistakes
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- 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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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.
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!
thanks again for the tip for the freestyle in swimming
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
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.
THIS HELPED SO MUCH WITH EXHALING I WAS EXHALING THROUGH MY MOUTH TY
Exhale, Exhale, Exhale. Thank you. Im 37 years old and still trying to swim and breath at the same time.
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.
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
Good!!!
can all these applied to open sea swimming?
i'm soooooooo guilty of this... all of it
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
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?
I'm finding that I've over-inhaled ---need just a sip of air, not a big gulp
Rick Martin it’s a common mistake 😉
Referencing the swimmer above, it's tough to make a good swimmer swim bad. :)
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.
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.
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.
please correct me if i am wrong but : inhaling and exhaling through nose ?
Inhaling mouth and exhaling nose is the exchange used by all top freestylers.
This was a really helpful video thanks l!
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
I'm failing to blow bubbles.. Once i try to do it i mess up everything. But i manage well with holding my breath nd taking out my head out after four five strokes. How dangerous is this technique that I'm applying?? But I'm really trying with the blowing bubbles thing just that it makes me mess up the coordination
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 need to look backward sir to avoid lifting my head? I will try that sir
the funny thing is... even when the pro swimmers do something wrong, they're still in good position and swim so fast LOL. I just want to be that wrong like them because I'm just like swimming nowhere, not forwards I mean, even I try so deadly hard =((
sinh nhat cup ur hands when u swim
thanks man, I overroll a LOT, this will help
Nice video.
"One google lens, one ear, one cheek in the water. The air at the surface is just as good as the air 10 inches up above." Think: "Nose breathing." Exhale through the nose.
When I keep one cheek in the water, I tend to swallow in some water. Any suggestions?
these techniques are amazing i could do 20 laps instead of my usual 13......IN JUST ONE DAY ...thankx man
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 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?
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
My legs get tired every fast and frequently. I am aiming for a 50m sprint but my legs grt fatigued within 20-25m of the lap, following which I usually have to pull water faster and harder. This causes overall exhaustion and also cause abdominal pain. Any thoughts and tips on this? Please help.
Regards
Dew, we recommend you find a local Masters Swimming coach to view your stroke in person to provide real-time feedback. Our best guess without seeing your stroke is that you should put you head lower in the water to help raise your hips which will allow your legs to rise so you can kick a little less and save energy. usms.org/clubfinder
why the water on the back not moving? I just wondered
solution: don't breathe- all 50 sprinters
If I exhale underwater, my body sinks and I have to move my arms and legs faster which all of this can make me get tired. What I do is tilt my head exhale out of the water and inhale at the same time then continue my stroke. Not professional, but it can make my body float and I can go swimming for more than 1 hour everyday.
Practice exhaling while keeping your chest expanded and then you won't sink. You can practice by floating on your back and getting to where you can breath in and out while keeping your chest expanded.
I do it for 2 hours... 1 hour just swimming, another just diving.
Love it! the best short and sweet explanation I've seen so far on how to breath correctly when freestyling.
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.
When i do that My nose starts hurting When i turn over plus i never learned that And we have to learn it for Big2
Hi Daisy, we recommend finding a Masters Swimming coach near you to help with those technique points. They will teach you how to do a flip turn without your nose hurting among other tips. www.usms.org/placswim/
i dont usually open my mouth when i breath then i stop at 25 meters in 50meterpool ill try this thanks great help
thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
my breathing is better but some wonder why I rather not breathe after 2 movement (instead of three)
that is what is best
after two movements (same side)
or 3 movements (one and another)
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
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
Awesome I think I got it now. I will try it tomorrow
Exhaling while I'm underwater actually makes me more fatigued
I don't think that is the case. What might be making you fatigued is (I'm assuming this) that you are exhaling when you turn to take a breath. You are trying to exhale and inhale in such a short amount of time which could making your even more tired and have a loss of breathe. Also, don't swallow the air you breathe as it will sit in your stomach and make you feel bloated until you burp it up
TheBraveGoat I mean as soon as my head hits the water I'm exhaling, i'll have to try again a few more times cause right now I got school exams but next time I have time for the pool i'll have to keep trying it since evidently I'm not getting expected results.
dontspankustoohard It's all about practice. Try breathing every other stroke on your more comfortable side and take nice long strokes. Without lifting your head from the water, take a breath and then exhale through your nose at a rate in which you aren't trying to blow the air out as fast as possible but at a comfortable exhalation like when you are just breathing. It is really all about timing. You'll get it.
And I begin to exhale right when my face enters the water again. You just need to release the air at a steady rate similar to how fast you take in a breath.
TheBraveGoat Now what would say to breathing both sides? Cause when I used to breath to my comfortable right side I found myself ending up swimming to the right at a lake when I only moved to one side, but with both sides they say you go in a straight line. How would you kinda get used to that?
dontspankustoohard I have never had an issue of not swimming straight. No matter how you breathe, you should swim straight. If not, it is probably your stroke. You could also be rotating to much when you take a a breath. However, when i swim in a pool, you have a line to look at so i dont exactly know.
that's great Stu, but next time either shoot the video later in the day, or shoot from under the tent facing away from the sun, then you won't be squinting.
wait nose breathing ? I'm doing swimming lessons and was told to breath out my mouth which is hard for me to do
Rob hay
you have to exhale from your nose , but inhale from your mouth..... hope that helped
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?
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.
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.
Thanks. Two good tips I picked up: look behind, and exhale through nose.
Tt
Rangilara
Thanks for the video. Very useful tips
We will see you in the pool soon!
mistakes is so awesome to learn we want a mistake that you can learn from it then you can do better
When I exhale through my nose the air goes out faster causing an extremely huge urge to breath again almost every stroke. How can I fix that?
I'm no expert, but instead of releasing it all at once, try and mentally count the time between breathes and release it evenly. Mentally I think...one one thousand...two one thousand...quick breath.
nice. I'm gonna try that way 'cause my ability to swim long distances is quite terrible. I can only swim 25 meters non stop and then I have to rest. sometimes I force myself to make it all the they to 50 but I feel like I'm dying. Thanks Casey Gandy
i feel your pain, swimming in a sprint lap pool and as a beginner even those 25 m stretches can be rough.
You need to exercise bubbling in water. Just float, keep your face in the water looking at the floor, and bubble. You can use a kickboard. When you need to breathe in just raise your head up until your mouth is outside water. Quickly breathe in and put your head back in water. Swimming is needs the mental focus and control.
stay conscious of your upper abdomen as you swim and exhale
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
Thank you for this helpful video.
Peter Oakes vbgnbn
Thanks! Beginning swimmer, but I've been in water polo.
Thanks much!
as a beginner, I KNOW I have my head too high and/or rotate too much. If I put my head down, I have to rotate too much to get air because my stroke/form still sucks. If I have my head high, I can breathe easier but my legs drop and I am still out of breathe cause I'm working harder. Just telling me to not turn too much is not very helpful.
I'm all about the most effective way to BREATHE while swimming, not how to be some pro swimmer and how to breathe to get the best speed.... I swim for cardio workout and keep swallowing water. tf do i do.
Wade Hamilton me toi
See leaving aside all the swimming technicalities aside, logically speaking you can gulp water in two cases.1) you have opened your mouth before your head has rotated completely and opened your mouth when it is still inside the water. 2) you have opened your mouth at the right time but the arm on the side on which you are roatating is spilling water while recovery. Point 1 can be corrected by standing in a shallow water and practising breathe in and breathe out exercise. Put you head in water and exhale and while continuing exhaling come up and as soon as as your face feels air start inhaling.you should get a feeling that when is your face outside water and when is the right time to inhale. Practice it then with belly float position holding the bar or side wall. Exhale in water and rotate your head with little rotation of your upper body especially shoulder and as soon as face feels air start inhaling. Now point 2 needs that you should make a smooth recovery which means when your arm comes up from water it should be smooth and relaxed without spilling any water.
How do I exhale from my nose? Every time I try to do it, I get water going inside my nose ;-(
that means you're not really exhaling... You're breathing in a bit as well. During the rotation of your head, as your face is going from looking down to looking to the side, you should be blowing still, and harder, so as to push the water away from your nose and mouth, then the breathing will happen naturally. Your lungs are empty and the air will go in. But, don't forget to blow, not to inhale. Practice standing in shallow water at waist level, bending forward to a horizontal position, and rotate like that several times... good luck
no need it is more recommended to do just hum like mmmmmmmmmmm and it will go by itself :)
I started a course of freestyle a few weeks ago and tried breathing out trough my nose, but It takes so much strength. There's just too much water there:-/. Is that normal? I noticed it works a LITTLE better when I also exhale through my mouth. Why is that? Any one any suggestions? Thanks!
Do it like your blowing your nose
I'm scared to exhale under water..I feel like I'll mess up and do the opposite
I have to over rotate. For some reason I don't get a decent pocket flowing over my nose when I just turn my head. Then I end up sucking in a bunch of water and panic and ruin my whole swim.
I don't know why, but when I try doing front crawl, I always have a shortness of breath. If anyone knows any MORE tips, please tell me.
Same here I too have shortness of breath I don’t understand why.
i haven't figured out, why do my whole head immerse inside water while doing freestyle swimming. Is there any way to keep some part of it in the air?
Thanks
Also keep your head down when you are not breathing. Girl in the video had hers up a little bit. Just put your head down, and look straight at the bottom. Head up = slower
Wow, now I know why I never can do freestyle for too long. My breathing sucks, which tires me out so quickly. Good tips.
thanks for the video! really helpful :)
the breathing is the hardest to learn i find for me, I have the physique for it but my breathing technique is very poor so i get tired very easily after 50metres. gotta work on it! XD
Thank you sir, just what I needed to know
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
I m inhale with mouth and exhale with nose. If i try to inhale with nose lots water enter in the system. Is alright if inhale with mouth and exhale with nose?. if not how should I practice it? Please suggest
Now I'm confused, some other videos on RUclips 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.
Thank you for your nice massage.
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.
when u say "take a bite" does it mean that you do not inhale? I inhale and end up with a mouth of water but if I do not I do not get enough oxygen :(
the same here :(
Initially, I used to try hard to inhale and my instincts refused the idea of inhaling within a fraction of second on demand. All of a sudden, one day, I found that I don't need to consciously inhale, rather I need to consciously exhale. So, that just opening our mouth a bit above the level of water forced the air to get in. I can inhale both ways.
Taking a bite means you do not need a "gulp" of air. Gulping air will leave you uncomfortable, with too much air to exhale before you come up again. Only a bite is needed to get you through the next 2 or 3 seconds your head is underwater.
I have to use a nose clip :/ I've tried not using it, but water keeps getting in my nose, and then I panic. This is the reason why I'm not on a master's swim team.
A Masters Swimming coach can help watch your stroke to help you improve. You should find a team in your area www.usms.org/placswim/
Not too long after I commented, I was invited by a friend to try the local Masters team. She encouraged me so I took the plunge and I am hooked! I then talked my husband in to joining. It's a family affair now because my son and son-in-law are also on the team. Just waiting on my daughter to join us! It's the most physically challenging thing I've done in a very long time, but I'm enjoying it! :)
That is great to hear. The Masters Swimming community is a family in and of itself. So, to actually include your real family makes it that much better! Hopefully your daughter will be in the pool soon.
She has now joined! :)
Happy Swimming!
Yikes ~ that high head really slows you down and looks very uncomfortable. Thanks for the tips!!
Don't rotate so much when I breath and look back and exhale through my nose. Thank you!
Can we exhale through our mouth?
Den Yuan anus is better
flyer boy excuse me?
Den Yuan i heard its possible to breath through anus
Den Yuan You can exhale through mouth, but breathing out through nose is more relaxing and consistent
You can exhale through mouth just before going up for air. Otherwise, your breathing frequency will increase.
That makes me want to go in a pool winter or not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just can't get the head rotation right, even when I try to do the one goggle in water technique I find myself rotating too much :/
me too --(
Thanks a lot
great video thanks for sharing.
She may breath very good but she flaps her arms on the surface like a monkey :p
Good video tho..
Very well explained ! Thanks
I love swimming
how to avoid getting water in your ear every time you take a breath in the air?
If your swimming cap doesn't cover your ears then you could try using ear plugs! they'll be helpful
by using ear plugs
Rodolfo Quintero I tried it earlier and it worked! Thanks
awesome video
I have been over rolling to compensate because the water surface and splashes of the water go into my lungs at the same time I inhale and I want to know that is clear when I breath in deep. Not sure how to get around that.
We recommend you go see a Masters Swimming coach to look at your stroke. It is hard to diagnose without seeing it.
Thank you!
IMHO Body position in the water is the most important component to swimming faster and efficiently, and the position of your head dictates the position of the rest of your body. Look forward, with your hairline cresting the surface of the water in front of you (if your hairline is receding, then make sure that your forehead is just below the surface!)I .
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Great tips, I have been holding my breath until end of second stroke. I will try continuous exhale now and hope to improve!
This was a really helpful video.............
Very helpful thank you
i keep drinking water...what did i do wrong?
me too, I'm trying to get rid of it so badly, will be putting this video into practice tomorrow. Like the last time I drank water, the water surface was in surge motion because the pool was so crowded. almost 100 people or more were in the pool. And next time in that situation, I assume that I need to rotate my head even more and trying to put into practice should help
Since I don't see you, I can't tell you for sure, but in my case, I had a bad posture which made it hard to breathe properly. As I noticed and adjusted my spine, I stopped drinking/ inhaling water. I think "eagle chest" to myself, as a reminder. Also worked on my head, instead of it from the water. As the video shows, your cheek must be parallel to the water. But the posture is the essential part.
You need to practice more breathing under water
If you are drinking water, you are probably rotating with your mouth already open. You should be still blowing during the rotation out, preferably through your nose and mouth. Body position it's a big factor too as pointed by Frajolao... Make sure you are in perfect and relaxed streamlined position. Look it up and correct your body posture....
Make sure your kicking is correct too. If you are kicking from your knee down only your hips will sink and your breathing gets harder as well.... cheers
you are probably thirsty.
Any thoughts on using a decongestant before swimming?