can you breath too deeply?
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kylie posted 39 weeks ago.
Do you hold your breath between breaths, and exhale and inhale while you take your breath? I start breathing out slowly and gently pretty much right after I breathe in, so I'm not sure if I'm picturing right what you are doing.
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fawcettenator posted 39 weeks ago.
I too am not sure if I am picturing correctly what you are doing, but that being said I do believe that yes you can breathe too deeply. I try to just breathe somewhat of a "normal" breathe (like what you would on land) and then I exhale through my stroke. If you take to deep of a breathe it can throw your stroke rhythm out of whack, and I think cause what you are experiencing. My swim coach gives our team sets of 25 "no breaths", where you don't breathe for the 25 and they're at 30 seconds. He says this will help us with the amount of air we can take in during our races. (I would definitely try some of these) Hope this helps :-)
PS: I don't know any of this info for sure but this is what I personally have experienced and have been told.
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TriSooner posted 39 weeks ago.
kylie wrote:
I start breathing out slowly and gently pretty much right after I breathe in
fawcettenator wrote:
I try to just breathe somewhat of a "normal" breathe (like what you would on land) and then I exhale through my stroke.
+1 This way feels more like a natural breathing rythm. Breathing in when the face is turned and out of the water, holding most of it but slowly exhaling through the nose (?) during the strokes, and exhaling the rest of it while the face is on the way out of the water. It's all about timing.
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cjhoffmn posted 39 weeks ago.
I'm holding my breath for about one and a half to two strokes. For example, I'll take my breath to the left with my right arm extended, turn back in, holding my breath for the completion of the stroke with my right arm, then the stroke with my left, then about half of the next stroke with my right, then I start to exhale so that I'm fully blown out as I turn up to the right for the breath on my next left hand stroke.
Early on I had some trouble starting my exhale too early - I was blowing out all my air too fast and ending up without enough air, so I started waiting a bit, then exhaling strongly during the last arm stroke before I turned up for the next breath. I definitely disconnect inhaling from exhaling - that is - I'm exhaling completely before I turn up for the next inhale.
As I was trying to deal with this on Saturday, I tried to exhale slowly throughout the entire stroke a few times, but it felt really awkward. That's where I got my idea #(i) above about not really closing my windpipe and trying to hold all the air in with my lips and mouth under pressure.
Of course just writing this all out is starting to make it sound like I'm sucking in too deep of a breath, creating pressure in my lungs, which is difficult to release slowly...
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jperubog posted 39 weeks ago.
I catch myself holding my breath sometimes and this helps get me back into a rhythm. Usually when I take a breath I try and inhale as much as possible but sometimes I forget to exhale enough, and when I go to breath I find that I can’t get enough. To combat this I make sure I exhale a little bit at the beginning of each stroke. So instead of holding my breath until the last stroke, as soon as I start to pull (after taking my breath) I release a little air, then hold until I pull on my next stroke, release air, then on the third stroke, as I pull, I release the rest and I am ready to take another breath. This has helped me to expel enough air from my lungs so as soon as I feel like I expelled my last bit of air I am ready to breathe in. Think of it like when you lift weights, every time you lift you expel a burst of air, just do this with your each stroke as soon as you begin to pull, right after the catch, think short bursts of air. If you bilateral breath, that means you have 3 strokes until your next breath, so count each pull and let out a burst of air with each one. I hope I explained this clear enough.
Another thing i noticed during my long swim last Saturday...
Sometimes, i'd suddenly start feeling really strained in between breaths. I bilateral breath, and sometimes during the strokes without a breath, i'd suddenly feel as if i was really straining. In particular, it felt a little like when you hold your breath and
try to make your face all red. It seemed like it was something i was actively doing, because there would be big long stretches when it wouldn't happen, then suddenly it would come back.
I'm not sure, but it seemed maybe like 1) i was breathing in, but not closing my throat, so i was holding in the air effectively with my mouth or 2) like i was taking in too big a breath, so i had to fight not to let the air out of my over expanded chest.
If i take in a huge deep breath on dry land, it kind of feels the same, but not quite.
Does it sound like i am breathng too deeply? Is that possible?