Breathing in during Front Crawl

Hello folks,

In my last post I discussed the lessons I learnt about breathing out in water. Today I’m going to talk about breathing in air while doing a front crawl.

When breathing in, some beginners, myself included, tend to raise our heads to take in air. This is wrong as it causes the legs to sink. You see, the body can be thought of as a see-saw. When one part goes up on water the other part tends to go down.

So, how should one breathe out while swimming with front crawl? The best way which I discovered in my last lesson is to turn sideways with the neck remaining as parallel to your trunk as possible at appropriate moments. So what’s an appropriate moment? I’ll give an example. Suppose you want to breath out to your right side. So, you push and glide in the pool, then start kicking, and then you starting making hand strokes. You wait until your left hand is stretched straight in front of you while your right hand is stretched straight backwards. This is the perfect time to tilt your head to the right and take in some air.

Also, it’s important to keep kicking while breathing in otherwise you generally begin to sink.

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