How To Breathe Whilst Swimming Freestyle | Swim Technique For Front Crawl Breathing

(No Cry by Fasion) (water splashing) - [Instructor] Today, we're taking a closer look at the breathing aspect of the freestyle stroke, breaking it all down and teaching you how to breathe more comfortably. (logo whooshing) (logo beeping) (Priddy by Fasion) To propel ourselves through the water while swimming freestyle, it's important that we're supplying our muscles with the adequate oxygen. This requires a good breathing technique that allows you to swim comfortably and efficiently with as little impact on your stroke as possible. The breathing action should actually take place throughout the whole stroke rather than one specific point. You should always be breathing either in or breathing out, it should never stop or be held. So let's start as you finish your stroke at the back beside your hip and you have your other arm outstretched in front of you. In this position, you would ideally be rotated onto your side for a stronger and more efficient stroke, but this also helps with the breathing too. As you rotate onto your side with your hips and shoulders moving in sync, you should allow your head to rotate around with your body. Whilst doing this, it's important that you keep your body straight and inline. Try to avoid craning your neck by either lifting the top of your head up or by trying to look at the roof of the pool. You should only move your head to the point where your mouth is just out of the water and your eye line is level with the side of the pool. Imagine that you're trying to leave one eye in the water whilst the other is above. By doing this, the top of your head pushes the water and creates a trough-like effect around your face and mouth, meaning your mouth isn't actually going to be submerged under the water. During this phase of the stroke, you should be breathing in your through your mouth whilst avoiding breathing in through your nose. As your recovering arm comes over and towards your head, you can imagine that your bicep or upper arm forces your head back into the water. At this point, you'll be starting your rotation back to the center of the stroke, so your head should follow your body as before. Now, as your head submerges back into the water, you should begin exhaling straight away to prevent the water from going in your mouth or up your nose. This should be a slow and controlled trickle until your next breath in, rather than holding the breath and then a sudden exhale. By having this constant trickle of bubbles, it also prevents any buildup of tension. From here, your body will continue to rotate and roll onto the other side, but you should keep your head facedown, looking towards the bottom of the pool for a number of strokes before breathing again. (Keep It by Dylan Sitts) But how often you decide to breathe is entirely up to you. Everyone has different breathing pattern preferences, but it's advised that you aim to breathe bilaterally. This means breathing to either side. So to keep your stroke symmetrical and balanced, breathing every three strokes is a very good starting point. This means that you alternate from breathing to the left and to the right. You should trickle your breath out throughout those three strokes and if necessary, forcefully expel any remaining air in the lungs on that third stroke. At this point, you will begin to roll onto your side to repeat the same process of breathing in. (Mile Soul by Amber Spill) This continuous breathing out whilst the head is in the water is one of the biggest cruxes for most swimmers. It feels unnatural at first. We advise you practice this without actually swimming at first. Simply hold onto the pool edge, take a big breath in, and then slowly drop yourself down underneath the water. As your face enters the water, start trickling your breath out. Continue to do this for a few seconds before slowly pulling yourself back up, expelling all your remaining air, taking a quick breath in, and then dropping yourself back down underneath the water to repeat again as many times as you like. Another useful drill involves a kick board. Hold onto the middle or bottom of the kick board so that you can place your head down into the water. As you kick yourself down the pool, try placing your face down in the water and trickling your breath and then breathing to one side, back to the middle, face down to trickle your breath, and then breathing to the other side. Again, keep repeating this until you're more comfortable with the action. Although this drill is not allowing that rotation we've been discussing, it does allow you to practice the basic action. (water splashing) By combining these skills and practicing them in every swim session, you will find your breathing technique improving over time and making front crawl much easier to master. You can subscribe to GTN by clicking on the logo on-screen and never miss another video on our channel. For more swim videos, click on the box in the corner now.

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Length: 5min 15sec (315 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 10 2019