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How to Breathe When Swimming Freestyle: Freestyle Breathing Tips and Mistakes To Avoid

How to Breathe When Swimming Freestyle: Freestyle Breathing Tips and Mistakes To Avoid
Learning to breathe better while swimming freestyle is a small thing that can dramatically improve your speed and stamina in the water. Here are a few tips to help you breathe better while swimming freestyle (and a few mistake to avoid).

How To Breathe When Swimming Freestyle

1. Timing is everything Really, it is. Broken down to basics if you are breathing on your left you should breathe as your right hand is stretching out to catch another stroke. Or if you are breathing on your right you should breathe as your left hand is stretching out to catch another stroke. This way your breath occurs during rotation with minimal interruption to your stroke. 2. Circles are good Squares are bad. Freestyle is a circular stroke. There are no corners to get caught up on. Breathing needs to fit into this circle or your stroke ends up hitching. These pauses affect your tempo and slow you down. If you feel like your breathing is irregular or creates drag address it before it becomes learned.

How to Breathe When Swimming Freestyle: Freestyle Breathing Tips and Mistakes To Avoid

3. Drill it out Drills can be tedious but they really are great tools to help you perfect your technique. My favorite to deal with poor breath timing is swimming one armed. Pirate freestyle! I tell my kids they only have one arm and we work through 25s using either the right arm or the left arm. Whatever arm is not in use is ‘dead’ at their side and they must always breathe to that side. NEVER have the dead arm out front, how could you possibly work on breathing with that arm in the way? This way they can really focus on one arm entering and rotating their body into a breath. And because I really like to drill it in they must breathe every single stroke. So if we are doing right arm only freestyle they must breathe to the left every single time the right arm reaches out for a new pull.

Conclusion

Learning to breathe properly while swimming is an essential skill in becoming a faster swimmer. Fortunately, this skill can be learned with practice and repetition. Next time you're at the pool, try these three freestyle breathing tips, and continue to practice them each time you are at the pool. In time, you will see improved results.
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