How to Breathe While Swimming
Learning how to breathe while swimming is an essential component in competitive swimming. Here are the ways to train to breathe while swimming.
Practice how you will raise your head up before you even get to the water. Stand up, and start training by doing swimming strokes and tilting your head up so that your chin is even with your shoulder. Once you’ve gotten the action down, you can try it in the water.
Try to breathe using your mouth as much as possible. Exhaling underwater using your nose can be quite painful!
underwater breathing
Start your warm ups by bobbing in and out of the water. Take a small breath before going into the water, and release the air underwater before coming up to the surface. Do this several times, just concentrating on your breath and how you control and release it.
Start swimming. Take a breath before going under the water, and blow out the air gradually until there is no more air left in your lungs. It’s going to be hard, but make sure that your lungs have no air before breaking back up into the surface. Slow down your swimming or slow down your stroke as you come back up, and get as much air as you can.
Pace your breathing in such a way that you can train yourself to inhale every three strokes. This will help improve your swimming speed and your lung capacity. Understandably, this won’t come easily, so start pacing yourself by breathing every one and a half to two strokes.
One way for your body to exhale oxygen without much conscious effort is by reaching your arms out as far as you can go when swimming. Elongating your arms will also improve your stroke and make it easier for you in the long run.