after i do a flip turn in swimming i get tired and run short on breath?

Question

so i swim freestyle 25 yards and then i do a flip turn a lot of times i chhoke and i can't do it right. after the unsuccessfful turn i push off te wall and i can't catch my breath. wha shoudl i do. should i take a giant breath before the turn? thaks you.

Answer 1

Glide of the wall and don't breathe until after the 1st arm cycle. If your building stamina do open turn more becasue swimming the laps I believe will increase endurance.

Years ago I heard a SMU swimmer with a good flip turn he began by dropping his head taking a backward stroke with his arms. Point your toes, point your toes because if your heels hit the gutter it hurts.

Answer 2

The problem of shortness of breath is not your turn (though it sounds like you just need to practice that). The shortness of breath is because you are tired from the 25 yard freestyle, and as you enter the turn holding your breath, your body is craving that air. Your difficulty with the turn is also obviously causing you to be underwater longer, increasing the time you have no air.

My only advise would be to keep practicing. As your endurance buildings in swimming, your body will be able to handle the lack of oxygen for the time it takes to complete the flip turn. And--practicing the flip turn will make it faster, and reduce the time you are prevented from breathing (the faster you flip and start swimming again, the faster you can breath again).

Depending on your level of swimming--you might want to consider for a while using open turns (touching your hand, grabbing a breath, and pushing off--a breaststroke turn basically), so you can get a breath. Get your endurance up for the swimming part, and then bring the flip turn back in. If you do you that though, take some time at the end of your workout to just practice your flip turns (start maybe 10 yards out, swim into the wall, flip, and out about 5-10 yards. Catch your breath, and repeat.

Best advice--talk to your coach.

Answer 3

Swimming Flip Turn

Answer 4

Now, I don't know anything about swimming endurance. I'm just starting to learn the sport, but cardiovascular activity is the same, at least on a base, metabolic level. So how do you increase your endurance? Don't be discouraged at first if you seem to have lost some of your high school edge. It's going to take you a little bit to get back to your old fitness level, but if you've making honest attempts for the past 5 years to keep healthy and active, then the time it's going to take for you to get back to that level will be relatively short. As for training advice: you should probably break up your days. Mon,Wed,Fri you should try sprint work. Go as fast as you can for fixed intervals, say one length of the pool, and then have rest intervals, maybe half a length. Alternate the intervals and try to keep up for 15-20 minutes. Tues,Thur,Sat you should work on your distance. Swim for 15-20 minutes and figure your distance (Or set a distance before hand and try to meet it within your time frame). Gradually increase the distance that you go by 10% or so every week to avoid any muscular/skeletal injuries. Anyway, that's an adaptation of my personal running schedule. Again, I don't know a lot about swimming, but maybe you can get a little revelation going with this. Hope it helps.

Answer 5

Don't take a breath right before you flip because it can ruin your momentum, but practice flipping during your sets or whenever you swim. Your lungs and body should get used to it after a while. Practice your breathing too.

Practice flipping and pushing off the wall faster. When you take your first stroke then you can try and take a breath. My coach doesn't let me do this, about after practicing a lot and going to the meets; it really does help.

PRACTICE BUDDY !

Answer 6

Try going faster into the flip turn and push off as hard and fast as you can from the wall. You should be able to get out of the water in time for air without choking.

Answer 7

you should practice your breathing as well as your flip turns. you want flipturn as fast as you can by tucking in your body and kicking off as soon as your feet reach the wall. try not to stall in the water as you are flipping. this will diminish the time of your flip. also, as a swimmer, you should be able to hold your breathe for the length of a flip turn (it shouldn't be that much longer than the time between breathes during normally swimming). this requires training your lungs. i suggest doing sets where you breathe every 3rd stroke, then for a lap breathe every 5th stroke, then for a lap breathe every 7th stroke, and if you can for the last lap, breathe every 9th stroke, then go back down the ladder. doing this couple times during every practice will defeintely increase your stamina in the water

Answer 8

You need to gain endurance. When i had this problem I would try to improve my endurance while at home. For instance if I were watching tv, during the commercials I would try to hold my breath as long as i possible could. This really helps and if you work on it you will gradually get better

Answer 9

you got tired cause you are fliping inside water and you know it splashes and some could go through any part of you body, so whenever you flip turn in swimming try to take your breath as much as possible. or you drink some water after doing the fliping turn.or you stop doing that cause it might damage some system in you body.

Answer 10

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