Breathing in Swimming The FASTEST way to improve

Does breathing on the side feel impossible? Or perhaps you can already breathe, but feeling out of breath after just one lap. This can be related to holding your breath, breathing in with your nose, or other things that I will cover in this video. Breathing is the first thing in swimming that you have to learn, because without it, you simply can't have a good technique, endurance, or speed. It's Endurance ID, and I'm Dasha, a former swimmer and a coach with 15 years of professional swimming experience, and my mission is to help you learn, improve, and enjoy swimming. Let's go! Breathing in swimming, and in general, consists of two parts – inhaling and exhaling. When you breathe fresh air, your body turns it into CO2, and you breathe it out. That's how all humans function. So from here, I can already tell that you whether have a problem with breathing in or breathing out. So let's fix that. So before every swim practice, I encourage you to stay at the wall and practice breathing in and out. When you breathe in, use only your mouth, and when you go with your face under the water, use only your nose. Again, do 10-15 repetitions before actually going and swimming the swim practice that you have, and if you have nothing to swim, I have made 5 beginner-friendly swim practices absolutely for free that you can find down in the description below. Swallowing lots of water when breathing. Remember, your body position in swimming has to be horizontal to the bottom of the pool. When you're swimming, your head breaks the water in front of you, creating an air pocket which then you can use to breathing air on the side. Don't lift your head too much because this causes you disbalance of your body position in the water, meaning that you're not gonna take enough air and you're gonna swallow some water. You get water in your nose. The reason you get water in your nose when breathing is because you're using your nose to inhale when you're turning to the side. Now, only use your mouth to breathe in the air. Imagine that your nose is stuck, for example, you're feeling sick and you simply can't breathe in with your nose. If you're breathing with your nose, that causes this uncomfortable feeling in your forehead and you definitely don't want this when you're swimming, so only use your mouth to inhale the air when you turn your head to the side. It's not enough time when you turn your head to the side to breathe in. The reason it's not enough time because you're trying to squeeze two faces into one move. When your face is in the water, this face is for blowing out the air using your nose and when you turn your head to the side, this face is for taking a full breath. If you're trying to squeeze both breathing in and breathing out when you turn your head to the side, you simply end up not breathing in enough air and being really exhausted very, very quickly. So remember the two phases when your face is in the water, you breathe out all your air using your nose and when you turn your head to the side, this face is for breathing in the air. And by the way, I have created seven easy tips for you to improve breathing in swimming. It's absolutely for free and you can find it down in the description below. And now we move to problems related to breathing out. You blow out all the air very quickly, leading to this uncomfortable urge for a new breath. So to regulate this, use your nose to breathe out the air and make these humming sounds. Another great breathing technique that I'm personally using is breathing out the air only one to two strokes before turning your head to the side. I can demonstrate this. So you can see I'm not breathing out straight when my face is in the water. I'm holding the breath for a little bit and only one stroke before turning my head to the side. I'm blowing the air with my nose. So in this way, you can always have a little bit of air in your lungs and avoiding this uncomfortable need for the air. You're holding your breath and not blowing out the air at all. So here we are going back to the mistake with breathing in. If you don't use the underwater face to blow out the CO2, you then need to both breathe in and out the air when you turn your head to the side. This limits the time for you to take a breath in and you kind of always swim in the oxygen deficit. So to avoid this, again, use the underwater part to always blow out the air with your nose and when you turn your head to the side, use the space to only breathe in fresh air. You'll breathe out air with your mouth. Again, as we talked prior in this video, breathing out the air with your mouth means being out of air very quickly and you definitely don't want this in swimming. So again, to regulate this, use your nose and humming sounds when your face is in the water. And remember, to learn breathing, you need to constantly practice. And if you need help with that, you can find links down in the description below. Feel free to ask any questions in the comments or DM me personally. Subscribe to our channel and we'll see you in the next one.