5 Swim Drills to Immediately Improve Your Breathing

If you finish every lap completely exhausted, your breathing could be to blame! Your breathing technique plays a major role in your swimming efficiency, which directly impacts how quickly you get tired. Stop holding your breath and try our favorite swimming breathing drills to transform your stroke and make every lap easier!

Chapters:
0:00 Drills for Breathing
5:20 How Often to Breathe
9:33 Everyday Breathing Tips

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[PracticalHealthNow]

Thank you for the video! Very useful information!

[averycutecat]

Thank you for the list of drills! they look like lots of fun and I am going to try them out😍

[benyaminleib]

Fares, I have not seen anything in recent years as advice to avoid this but recall swim coaches in my earlier years suggesting that for each breath in, HOLD IT for perhaps 3-5 seconds, and then slowly exhale in preparation before the next inhalation. Is the hold still advised, or does this undesirably build up CO2 in the lungs?

[darylfarrugia]

I have bad allergies. When water goes into my nose it causes problems. What do you recommend for it?

[leohorishny]

Sorry...How often to Breathe...
Srsly, as an adult attempting to learn, I'm picking up a lot of helpful tips and advice from your lessons, and your information is sensible, and easy to follow, as a student following a teacher. Thanks for your videos!

[blufaerie]

“Imagine yourself impaled…” Fares, my man… Imagine myself as a chicken? 😂😂😂

[kvister]

great video and drills!

In the last drill, is there a difference in which side you breath? (either the one pulling or the side of the arm that's still)
If so what's the difference?

[tarkv.]

Which sport do you advice for fast swimming ? Pilates, gym, etc

[tomasquindt]

Fares, great video, as always.

I’m concerned about what you said regarding breathing through your nose. I have to use a nose clip because chlorine makes me congested. I also think I’ve seen some Olympic level swimmers use the nose clip.

What can you say about it?

Thanks!

[howardchan]

How does one count strokes? Is it:
Left 1, Right 1; L2, R2; L3 etc OR is it L1, R2, L3, R4, L5 etc?

[blufaerie]

Can you add that poolside breathing clip to a Short?

[laurenanderson]

Is the single arm freestyle supposed to be on your side the whole time or do you only rotate to your side when you breathe?

[geroutathat]

What's happening at 2:20, take the breath, rotate head back into water, mouth open. How to not swallow water doing that?

[alicanyldrm]

4:29 is it wrong if my other arm is not at my side but I just strech it forward? What is the difference

[sebastiansansa]

Any recomendation about a good smartwatch foro swimming? Thx

[nancytripp]

I must admit that: I didn't realise what I am doing every single day for fun to avoid boredom in the exercise, is correct.

[PJ_]

Please how do i swim 🏊‍♀️ without water entering my ears 😫

[NadeemKazi]

I’m a complete beginner and have completed 5 lessons as of today. I’m getting good at kicking but one thing I am not able to do is to keep my legs up while being rotated like in the 3rd drill (12 kick rotation)

Any advise on how to maintain position and not letting legs sink while being rotated?

[dagmaragrochowska]

Great material! Thanks😊I have request, can you speak a little bit slower? I think that you have also followers how made be not good enough in English language 😉

[fabiogaming]

thanks for the video but how can i drop 6 secound on 50 breaststroke