4 Breathing exercises for smooth freestyle swimming. Progressions. Beginners
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- On this video I will show you 4 breathing exercises you can do to maintain a better, more horizontal position while swimming smooth easy freestyle.
The first exercise is to Grab the wall with one hand, take a deep breath, put your face in the water and kick just enough to put your body in a horizontal position.
Practice this exercise on both sides, breathing to the left and breathing to the right, until you feel comfortable with the movement and the breathing technique.
The second progression is very similar but you will have a kick board instead of the wall and you will also do full strokes. Kick about 6 times and then take one breath and a stroke.
The third exercise is the same as the second but without a kick board. Usually swimmers have a preferred breathing side but it is of good practice to learn how to breathe well from both sides.
The fourth exercise is simpler. Just kick with your arms down and move your head to the side to take a breath. There is no arms’ movement. Focus on maintaining the hips high on the surface of the water and take quick breaths the same way you practice on the other three exercises.
Now you are ready to do the whole thing! Swim one length of the pool on the smoothest freestyle you can master, while taking short quick breaths. Try breathing every 2 stroke, every 3 stroke and every 4 strokes. Notice the difference. Stop at the other end, control your breathing and do it again.
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Just a small note: If you keep on swimming regularly ( let's say at least 3-4 times a week ), your breathing will optimize itself naturally. Without realizing you'll start exhaling just before putting your head above the surface and you will only exhale as much as necessary. No worries if things don't work out directly.
3 to 4 times a week 🥺🥺🥺 mehnnnn that's cool
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I swam 2x week for 4 months. Still can’t breathe without a snorkel
Yeah. Another small note. If you do anything you're not used to for like a hundred hours, that thing is going to feel a lot more natural than it did before that effort ;)
I've been struggeling with this and more of the basics for just 3 weeks, 2-3 times a week and man is it hard. Even if I got the first two exercises down, I sink like a rock if I rotate to the side and lift one arm out of the water.
Thank u so much for the motivation. Was having a hard time learning to breath
I look like an idiot when I swim. No one taught me. It takes me 45 seconds to get to one end to the other and I choke on water constantly. But I’m trying! Slowly and surely.
Keep going. It takes time and practice.
I hope you have seen some good improvements! I am 100% self-taught, I rely heavily on video content to learn what I should be doing. I have seen a lot of improvement from just experimenting and testing what feels right, and was finally able to swim a mile in under an hour this week. Not exactly a speedy accomplishment, but it meant a lot to me :)
Me too
@@logangantner3863 Yeah i did swim classes and got no where. Im getting much further by simply teaching myself than i ever did with classes
I got told to stay in the shallow end by the lifeguard :'(
It’s nice knowing other people struggle too lmao
😂😂😂 trueee
😂 😂 😂 😂
Almost 2 million of us out there
Gurgle gurgle gurgle
Absolutely true 😂😂
Lol. I died doing this exercise. Love from heaven
lol
This will be me tomorrow I guess, sigh
I took me a long time drowning at the pool to feel like I'm finally gliding through water. Every little technique update was drowning all over again until it becomes second nature..I'm still not satisfied, but improvement is definitely there :-)
lmao
Ajiad Subzwari lol😆
This is the first time I have clearly understood how and when to breathe in and breathe out . Do not laugh if I say that I am still learning though I am now 76 . Thanks from India .
Laugh? It's laudable that you're going at this at 76. Damn
@@sohamroy7668 Thank you , Soham, for your appreciation .Yes , I regularly try to swim in free style and back stroke in a correct way . Regular yoga and swimming have kept me free from any metabolic disorder .
@@jayantasen3567 Wow most people of your age group can't even walk
@@pajeet-cel3484 I agree with you but I have a strong desire to remain active and that^s why I practise yoga, breathing exercise like pranayam and swimming . I also engage myself in gardening . Thank you for encouraging me .
The tip, to not to exhale all my air did it for me. I've been going to classes since September and I was not able to get it right unitll this weekend. Thank you!
Thank you for this instruction. I’m over 70 and want to learn this!
Dude, I watched your video yesterday and today I tried to follow your breathing technique and to my surprise it worked man, damn i can't belive it. I can't wait for tomorrow to continue honing this skill. thanks, bro.
I'm glad it worked!
This is the best video I've found on this, straight forward and to the point. Thanks guys!
OMG! I've been struggling to breathe in freestyle for the last few days, watched tons of videos but nothing helped. Until I found this one.
Your suggestion of breathing out just as you turn your head was all I needed.
Finally I got the breath right! Thank you.
Currently trying to figure out how to do this and it’s HARD. I have a massive anti drowning reflex of some kind when I breath in water trying to do this. Just short circuits my brain and I stop swimming to catch a real breath. Gonna be interesting to overcome this one haha Great video!
Joe H Hate to admit this but I trained a few times for about a month and then I stopped completely. Only been focusing on my long distance running since haha. Would love to learn some day so I can do an iron man but we will see!
Did you try again!
@@zeni191205th I haven’t 🙈😅😂
@@Mrjuhlino try some super basic breathing drills. Just standing against the wall. Or buoy drills. It will help you relax and get comfortable underwater
@@Mrjuhlino Did you try again breathing underwater ?
One of the best video I ever watched on breathing … I must have watched this like 100 times to improve my stroke..
Thank you this excecise helped me to breath while swimming. Now I'm practicing it continues to perfect it.
太好了！我最困难的问题在此找到答案了 、非常感谢！感谢！！！
This is amazing... it really helped!!! I felt great... Thank you!!!
Perfect! Thank you!!!!
this is the best smooth freestyle swimming video ... Bravo keep going
Thanks for these videos, I'm just learning to swim and I find them very helpful.
This video is amazing. I'll apply all these instructions next time in the pool and I hope to make them.
I always thought I had to smoothly exhale while my head was inside the water ..thank you for teaching me the correct way...I will do that from now on.
Nice series of drills. I'll give these a go this weekend, I'm determined to crack breathing on the front crawl.
I watched this video last night, and put it to the test today and was able to shave 2 and a half minutes off my 1,000 m pb... Incredible.
Honestly, i was quite sceptical about only begging to breath out through my nose when my head is coming up for air.
But it clearly worked a treat, felt i had more energy and took less time resting.
Thank you so much for the video.
Started swimming lessons again. I was told to exhale all the time while looking down but the advice to just exhale as you turn your head for a breath makes sense to me. Exhaling all the time leaves my breathing out of sync. I'll try this. Thanks
WOW, I have been watching a lot of swimming videos and see everybody has own techniques. Most people say start exhaling as soon as your head goes under water and keep it until you inhale again so that you don't accumulate CO2 in your lungs. What Skill NT says is totally opposite, but I am willing to try it. I guess the key is to figure it out with lots and lots of practice.
man I drank so much water yesterday while trying this. I kept burping and later had a tummy ache.
haha same :D
Same bro! I was burping about one hour😂😂😂😂
miuller07 IMN me too🤣🤣🤣
So true
exactly man 😂
thank you for lesson! It is very helpful! now when I try I understand that need practice and practice! ;)
finally some good techniques and explanation !!!!!!!!
Keep up the work guys , can ur next video plz be about how to do butterfly 🦋 without getting tired and properly plz ?
Excellent instructions!
Thanks alot I will try it. Thanks again for sharing
Most of d coaches teaches to start exhaling just before entering into d water and exhale completely in d water and then to turn our head to take a breath...but hear u said really different thing to do, K will try to practice it and see how it feels, thanks for d video
감사합니다!^^ thank you
thank you! I'm on my way to practice in the pool now :D
BRILLIANT VIDEO!!!
Thank u... It needs lot of pratice and visualization..
This is super helpful..thanks!
Man you're the best
These breathing exercises helped me tremendously. Thanks for the video.
You are welcome! Thanks for commenting
Thank you for this video. I am following you and i am learning some technics.
I ended having a stiff neck and a stomach full of chlorinated peed water...
Same here.. LMAO
Same Lol
Same
Just part of the process
Practice, practice, practice. Rome wasn't burned in a day.
One of the few useful videos on breathing under the water
nice vid. Many thanks. Will try this afternoon.
Bro thanks I’m trying to teach a kid to swim and this helps a bunch
Defiantly applying to my swimming
Your videos helped me very much
I'll try this tomorrow and hopefully would be able to breathe while swimming
فيديو مفيد رغم قصره. ما قل و دل. شكرا
Your channel is best and informative as compared to others
GOOD ,I LIKE IT
Thanks this helped me a lot
Is it normal when you do the first exercise, I can only inhale back around 5 times before my chest starts to hurt (like wanting to breath normally)? Or does by practice I should be able to do the exercise for a longer period of time?
Beginner swimmer... :)
Thanks for sharing and training. It helps
You are welcome 🙂
Very nice explanations 👍👍
Thank you!
Thanks to you after watching this video, I drank more water from before.
Thanks!
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I'm waiting for "swimfast" cap
Thanks for teaching me swimming.... I learned swimming in 7 days
Now ready for the olympics.
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you are the only one that recommends holding your breath and only exhaling while turning.... all the other channels recommend me to never ever hold my breath and always breath out while under water. i never practiced your technique yet. will try next time im in the pool.
how does one know how many percent of air from the lung he exhales
well you can gauge an estimate? just thinking on my feet here, if you get a long balloon used for making balloon animals etc, you could get a pretty good idea how big it gets from a full lung exhalation, then half of that is near enough 50% lung capacity, half *that* is 25 and so that's a decent guide.
or, in a slow, controlled full breath in and out, time it several times until each breath in or out is taking just about the same time from empty to full or vice versa (lets say 5 secs), and then divide that time into tenths or whatever, and there you can count each 10%, and get a feel for what 10% or 20% or 50% etc really feels like. so if you can time from empty lungs to full lungs as 5 seconds of smooth flow, each second is another 20% lung capacity. then if you try to just limit it to lose that final 30% that way, you'll know how it feels in your body to withhold the final 30% or so (although when practising this kinda stuff be careful to have breaks with full breathing so you don't get dizzy!)
exactly I have exactly the same question. looks like we have to be a mathematician while swimming...
Just don't fill your lungs to capacity. Which is the mistake we all make when learning to swim.
For such fast split second calculations use a calculator
Matt Lozano estimation.
Fabulous. This just validated what I've discovered over time, but I'm going to try this out.
I live in Australia In a country town and I do swimming club and We do 33 laps of freestyle including a tumble turn without stopping and I get SUPER TIRED and If you don't swim to the edge you need to do 20 Burpies + another 10 if you didn't do a somersault at the end (Or at least tried) so could you mabey make a video on how to control your breathing while doing everything at once
surely I will practice.
Thank you.
Very useful thx
Today I did my first freestyle but the problem is when I try to breath, i drowned & then I had to stop, I am going to try that same tectonics hopefully it works.....love you
Thanks for you , why i can't exhaling through my nose under water , any advice . Thanks
The fourth exercise is the most difficult. My head is always not close to the surface enough when rotating to breath. Will try more.
good practical video...
Thanks.
Thankssssss this was sooooo helpfull
You are welcome 🙂
Today was day 1 of trying these. Choked on water quite a few times. But it’s still progress. I get really anxious under water. But I was able to take one quick breath successfully in my entire 45 min swim session. It ain’t much but it’s honest work.
Honest work indeed
tq.... brother 😎
This video is excellent because I got to know how to breathe while swimming in one day
Uh, no way.
Hi. I was stuck at the breathing step for a very long time. Exercises in Your video really helped me.. Especially the 1st and 2nd one. Thanks and keep up the good work
When you say a long time, how long?
Good video!
Thanks,after watching your video, I know how to breath
Yes but, can you do it?
Thanx for your suggestion
Thank you...
Just got back in the pool. Apparently I forgot how to breathe when swimming which seemed to be the most important part of my swim lessons 😩😩😩
I saw the letter "빠르게 헤엄치세요" in your cap. i bought swimming cap in your website. it looks like aztec .
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thank you
I have the technique to do this but after my first breath I feel like I'm drowning and I start freaking out and then when I go to breath I start taking in water and I have to stop but I'm going to the pool later to try these tips hopefully it works 😭🙏🏻
How did it go? Any tips how you mastered?
siraj mohiuddin hey! So I actually ended up becoming a lifeguard/swim instructor and since my stroke was weak, everyday since I worked at the pool I would get in and practice swimming my freestyle and my technique only became better and better. Some things I would do is use a kick board and put some fins on my feet to strengthen my kick because that is what propels you through the water. Then I would use a bouie that goes between your legs and I would slowly swim only using my arms focusing on keeping my elbows high and my arms in a “11” position (which means not crossing over your shoulders) while focusing on breathing every third stroke. Using paddles help tremendously with this drill as you can move slower and really focus on what your arms are doing. If you do struggle with breathing every 3rd stroke you can breath on the second stroke and slowly progress. Once you start getting all the parts in motion and you are comfortable I would swim with, for example, a hoodie and sweatpants on to cause drag, this will help you get stronger and faster with your front crawl stroke!
I'm currently taking my swimming lessons, and I have to admit I drink alot of sea water every time I try to breathe like that,😭😅. I can trade water, float on my back this particular breathing technique is soo hard!
I was quite surprised to hear that I should hold my breath in the beginning and then breathe out just in those few seconds before I breathe in again. I tried, and it worked, but only with hard concentration. Cause before watching your video I was always told to exhale constantly under water in order to avoid anxiety. Could you explain exactly the difference (Holding or not holding your breath at the beginning)? And could you tell me why it makes a difference, if you exhale through your nose? And what was the other video you talked about?
Me gustan tus videos. Son muy divertidos y me ayudan tanto!!!!
That is exactly what I heard....
Same opinion and question from my side also? I too learnt that one should start exhaling just before entering in d water and exhale completely, then turn your head to inhale
Thanks
Thnx boss.. 👔
Struggle alot to breathe correctly When you exhale under water...always keep the breath rather than exhale..watched few diff videos with diff suggestions given. Do you actually open your mouth abit to exhale or just blow out...fearful of taking in water then by that way but really dont know. I can swim but only with head above...really want to get this. Thanks
شكرا جزيلا...
I am newbie swimmer , as observed I get lot of burps when swimming . Can you tell what causes this and how to avoid ? Or is it good to burp ?
Thanks !!
Can you teach to to swim underwater while breathing properly and also singing ?
Sir thanks...
Image of him breathing out is going to haunt me for rest of my life
Oh my God... I have got a deaf ear trying to take a breath .... And runny nose.. i drank too much water that i can travel in a desert for the rest of my life
zOOlee fee loll
Skills Nt exellent video, one quick question: In a 50m-100m freestyle competition do I have to breathe every 3 or 2 strokes?
+Emi Ramirez in the 50 I suggest breathing the least amount of times possible. In the 100 just get into a rhythm that is comfortable for you and that is faster for you. For example if I start breathing every 2 my arms spin faster but I don't catch as much water so I'm actually slower. Some people are faster breathing every 2. So you need to figure that for yourself
Exactly as Skills NT said. I suggest you try to keep it as low as possible. For example, in my case, in 50m I would only catch air a couple of times to the wall (25) and make máximum use of momentum -I'd catch air especially before the flip turn. In 100m sprint, I'd breathe every 6 strokes at first, and try to keep it every 4 strokes as much as possible.
good video, I didn't seen
I used to exhale on the bottom which was very hard since the pressure of the water is more than the air pressure in my nose. Its much easier since the pressure of water is less at near the surface
He’s this guys at the pool that make me look like what I’m doing here 😩🤣