A humbling experience

Noted breathing questions before in this group. I have the same problem, never have been able to get
it right, breathing on both sides and on the right side. I was told that you normally breath on
dominate side, wierd thing is I am a left only breather, but right handed. Is this really that
different?

With all the speedo hum drum (I wear one), maybe there is a connection to my breathing
technique...joke folks...JP

Skipthomp48 said:

Noted breathing questions before in this group. I have the same problem, never have been able to
get it right, breathing on both sides and on the right side. I was told that you normally breath
on dominate side, wierd thing is I am a left only breather, but right handed. Is this really that
different?

With all the speedo hum drum (I wear one), maybe there is a connection to my breathing
technique...joke folks...JP

Yes, if you wear a speedo and have poor breathing technique, you are definitely a latent pedophile.

I'm left-handed and breath on my right. I can breath on both sides, but I've never been comfortable
doing it, and my times for bi-lateral breathing have always been slower. So I do it in drills, and
it is useful, but I don't do it in races, except open-water races where the shore is on my left.
Those are always a bugger.

I suspect (I'm just guessing) that most competitive swimmers in america breath on their right
because they started working out in lanes where they circled to the right.

martin

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My doctor told me to breathe only when I turned my head to the right for a month. I always breathe
to the left because I'm left handed. I can do

this

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without thinking, as can everybody else on this newsgroup, probably. So, I jumped in the pool and
started to breathe only on the right. I nearly swallowed a ton of water! All of a sudden, it was
not easy and natural. I actually had to think about what I was doing.

The first thing I noticed was that I was holding my breath underwater. So,

I

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suppose that is what people new to swimming do. I was concentrating so

hard

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on mechanics that I couldn't breathe! instead of my glide through the

water,

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I was thrashing (I think) and trying to work out everything at once.

As a previous poster wrote, the first thing I noticed was that my left arm and shoulder were being
rotated more than the right side. I guess I'll

never

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be able to do this equally. I had to concentrate on the exact spot in

which

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to breathe and do it quickly instead of not even thinking about it at all.

After about 7 laps, I think everything has smoothed out to a decent

stroke.

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But, it still isn't as effortless as when I breathe to the left.

Pat in TX

I sympathise. I have breathed to the left (I am right handed) all my life. I decided to try to even
out the body-wear a few years ago and spent a year trying to breath bilaterally or to the right. But
even after a year's trying, every time I stopped thinking about it I reverted to breathing on the
left, so I failed, and gave up trying.

I am also right-handed but my stronger breathing side is to my left, though I breathe on both sides.
I tend to do other things in a way that left-handed people typically do them. Marianne

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Noted breathing questions before in this group. I have the same problem,

never

Quoted message said:

have been able to get it right, breathing on both sides and on the right

side.

Quoted message said:

I was told that you normally breath on dominate side, wierd thing is I am

a

Quoted message said:

left only breather, but right handed. Is this really that different?

With all the speedo hum drum (I wear one), maybe there is a connection to

my

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breathing technique...joke folks...JP

i remember that problem, it takes a while to get over.

if you're not competitive, then it's not an issue, but bilateral breathing is much faster and evens
out the stroke in a race - i think

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My doctor told me to breathe only when I turned my head to the right for a month. I always breathe
to the left because I'm left handed. I can do

this

Quoted message said:

without thinking, as can everybody else on this newsgroup, probably. So, I jumped in the pool and
started to breathe only on the right. I nearly swallowed a ton of water! All of a sudden, it was
not easy and natural. I actually had to think about what I was doing.

The first thing I noticed was that I was holding my breath underwater. So,

I

Quoted message said:

suppose that is what people new to swimming do. I was concentrating so

hard

Quoted message said:

on mechanics that I couldn't breathe! instead of my glide through the

water,

Quoted message said:

I was thrashing (I think) and trying to work out everything at once.

As a previous poster wrote, the first thing I noticed was that my left arm and shoulder were being
rotated more than the right side. I guess I'll

never

Quoted message said:

be able to do this equally. I had to concentrate on the exact spot in

which

Quoted message said:

to breathe and do it quickly instead of not even thinking about it at all.

After about 7 laps, I think everything has smoothed out to a decent

stroke.

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But, it still isn't as effortless as when I breathe to the left.

Pat in TX