I can't control my breathing while swimming. recently my breath is out of rythm after swimming. Any advises?

Answer 1

This is a very broad question.....but a common problem. Are you having difficulty when you try to swim different strokes? Or perhaps when you just go under water?

There are many techniques that can help you control your breathing. Here is one that I have the most sucess with:

Before you add breathing to your strokes, you must get the basics down. Try to take a breath in thru your mouth, cover it with your hand, go under water, and slowly blow the air out of your nose. Think of it this way-in thru the mouth, out thru the nose. Once you are comfortable with this, try swimming partway across the pool underwater. Take a breath, go under, and every couple of feet, let a small amount of air out your nose.

Once you get good at this, you can add it to your strokes. The key is practice, and with that, you will build your endurance

You may also want to look up books on rotary breathing. The YMCA publishes some very comprehensive learn to swim books that I love to use....

Good Luck!!! Keep practicing, you will be the next Michael Phelps!!!!

Answer 2

Make sure it's not a problem with your respiratory system. Are you asthmatic? If so, try consulting a doctor first. If not, maybe you need to pace yourself. Sometimes when we stop swimming for a month or two, our physical conditioning deteriorates, so when we go back to swimming at the same pace we last used, our body has to play catch up. Try to warm up first and don't go swimming like your butt's on fire, start at a slow pace first then gradually increase the pace, that way your body can adjust and you won't run out of breath. There are also some exercises to establish rhythm in swimming like bobbing your head up and down while timing your breath by inhaling on the way up and exhaling on the way down that you can perform prior to swimming. Hope this helps.

Answer 3

In prepare swim longer instruments that concentration on constrained respiration. As in, as a replace of respiration each 2 strokes, breath each 3, 4, or 5. Doing that for 200s helped me out lots and gave me lots extra advantageous lung ability. additionally do no breathers, that are sprints, the two under the water or on the exterior, devoid of respiration.

Answer 4

The basic gist of rythmic breathing is: breath when you need to breath and do not hold your breath.

Take more breaths if you have to. Most people take a breath (during freestyle/crawl) every 3rd stroke but you don't have to. You can breath every other stroke.

Answer 5

you can practice as there is a saying practice makes man perfect and you can practice and make your skills better in this case.