Not even 3 minutes long yet this is packed with extremely important information. I wish more videos were done like this. Looking forward to hitting the pool tomorrow now!

THIS WORKS FOR ME: I found regulating breath-intake difficult; then I thought that perhaps I could learn from how I breathe when SINGING. This too also involves taking a quick breath of as much air as you plan to use and then controlling the exhaling. So I started to sing "to myself" as I swim-easier because I breathe every four strokes, and there are a lot of songs in 4/4 so one line of the song will work out as one cycle of strokes (I started with "Up a Lazy River"). It works really well-helps you relax, coordinate movement and, if you think of singing to yourself around the house at a low volume (not reaching the back of an opera house), it helps you take small breaths too. And it's fun.

2.46 minutes of simple but sound advice. The exhalation advice is a gamechanger for me and everything else has just clicked into place. Top man

I'm not new in swimming but had not done it in many years. Lately I decided to swim again and realized I'd forgot how to breathe right when doing freestyle. Great info! Thanks for the video!

Love it! the best short and sweet explanation I've seen so far on how to breath correctly when freestyling.

I saw this one 7 years ago and forget to say thank you, my boy at 5th grade can swim half a mile in ymca, 25 yards length for 32 laps, contest. Totally worked. Very grateful.

This is the best teaching for good freestyle swimming. When i was beginner, i had watched it but just had thought that it was just a drill. But now I can understand this is the best and all of swimming.

Thanks for the excellent tips! You answered the exact questions I had going into my search as I try to learn how to swim laps efficiently.

Awesome I think I got it now. I will try it tomorrow

Great tips, I have been holding my breath until end of second stroke. I will try continuous exhale now and hope to improve!

Thanks! Beginning swimmer, but I've been in water polo.

Great lesson . Very helpful for me, my kids, my niece to use this technique to practice and it works. Thanks a lot.

Thank you finally someone that explain how to properly breath

Thank you for this helpful video.

@rambostalin7162

5 жыл бұрын

Peter Oakes vbgnbn

Thanks, don't know what happened, but simply lost all ability to remember how I'd always been breathing. So helpfull, thank-you ever so much for the reminders.

Thank you for your nice massage.

thanks man, I overroll a LOT, this will help

Excellent video. I will watch several times and try to follow the instructions. Thanks.

This was a really helpful video thanks l!

Thanks much!

these techniques are amazing i could do 20 laps instead of my usual 13......IN JUST ONE DAY ...thankx man

Impressive presentation.

Great video. After years of British masters swimming I am trying to correct the many faults in my freestyle (front crawl) stroke and this is really helpful

Thanks for the video. Very useful tips

@USMastersSwimming

5 жыл бұрын

We will see you in the pool soon!

Very well explained ! Thanks

kinda perfected my right side . can breath in and see everything underwater with left eye while inhaling now i have do it all over again for left side)) which means gonna drink half of the pool again )) freaking hate it , my stomach will bloat and hurt after each practice again

@gil658

5 жыл бұрын

HAha I don't know if I drink that much, but it does suck when I take a gulp of water

Wow. I think you use gliding. Your pose is good. When you conduct water, your power is really good. Thank you for post good video. I think I learn something useful.

No.3 is a game changing point for me!

This was a really helpful video.............

thanks again for the tip for the freestyle in swimming

Great tips and easy to apply!

great video thanks for sharing.

That just turning your chin part 💯 Thank you

I keep swallowing water if a keep one goggle under the whater, I don't know what to do

@AbhijeetNagre

9 жыл бұрын

julittok Same here.

@AristarchFootler

9 жыл бұрын

It might have something to do with your stroke. If you slow down to take a breathe water will mostly likely rush in, but if you keep a steady pace it'll smoothly create an air pocket. I had the same problem a week ago.

@rhynoelee5633

6 жыл бұрын

Just think about it!

@JianZhouVA

6 жыл бұрын

julittok keep kicking while turning to the side and breathing.

@TELEVISIBLE

6 жыл бұрын

I hate it , I am drinking lots of pool water doing free style :(

Thank you sir, just what I needed to know

best explanation

Nice video.

Thank you, This video was just what I needed. Gotta thank Coach lilonga😊 I over rotate, gotta try this drill.

Thanks

Really helpful :) I Love swimming and am getting back into it after a few lazy years off (woops). One of my main issues is breathing, unfortunately i seem to struggle to time breathing alongside my strokes (front crawl normally) and this means i'm almost always having to stop after only one length to catch my breath :/ Also does anyone else find that when they try not to lift their head too far out of the water they end up with a mouthful of the water? :( xx

@Gaurav.P0

2 жыл бұрын

Are you still learning swimming?

I find this video very helpful. I didn't know that I've been doing some things wrong lol. Thank you for this!

Good! very useful. thank you!

Good practice!

many thanks sir, it's really working ...

Excellent tips. Thank you!

Super video. Every aspect is to the point. Thanks!

@USMastersSwimming

2 жыл бұрын

You are very welcome. Make sure to subscribe! We produce a new video each month.

@islambek2712

2 жыл бұрын

@@USMastersSwimming Done! My bad hadn't done it before!

awesome video

need to perfect this,was a helpful video,will comment after next drill

Super!

Very helpfull. Thanks..

this video is exactly what i need thanks!!

Thank you for this information .

Summing up- 1.Constantly Leg beating should be there. 2. Look Down 90° preferably always. Or a little diagonal. 3. One gogle in and one out while taking breathe.

i dont usually open my mouth when i breath then i stop at 25 meters in 50meterpool ill try this thanks great help

Excellent video. My time was well-spent. Thank you.

Very helpful thank you

Great advice! Thanks.

I was actually the inventor of swimming altogether. People before 1956-8 just sank to the bottom and were never seen again. I invented everything concerning swimming and competative swimming at my invention of the olympic swimming pool at the DYC Detroit.

@MichaelThomas-oo8iu

9 жыл бұрын

Your highly likley to not be over 65 or youd remember mortal fear of water and not being able to swim

@billybob6604

7 жыл бұрын

Michael Thomas lol gtfo outta here

@SelvaKumar-qd8co

7 жыл бұрын

Michael Thomas 3

Very good advice Thanks for posting

I swim competitiely and if u have a freestyle breathing problems u should do this drill put ur hand in front of u and keep ur mouth right above the water do this for a few 50s right hand down and left hand back also breath to ur left the first 25 and right coming back

Great tips. I'll see how I can use this tips today in the pool.Need some tips on how to get that chin low which is so tough especially for beginners.

Very helpful! I find that sometimes while I'm trying to improve other areas of my front crawl technique, that I'm holding my breath! :/ It has decreased the distance by which I can swim by about half at times. When you start to get winded this way...recovering from it creates all sorts of bad technique, further draining your energy needlessly. I find that I'm constantly thinking about my legwork...I'm probably kicking too often and draining my energy there as well.

Great advice! I'm having a hard time get a breathe, but now I see what I'm doing wrong.

Hi!I have found out that if you turn your head with the mouth just 1 cm above the water surface and you don't raise your forehead out of the water,there is much lower drag that taking the head completely out of the water.I also foud out that moving your head as little as possible,keeps the drag to a minimum and thus a constant speed thru water.

I'm excited to try this. My goal this year is to become a stronger swimmer, and I can only do about 10 laps with rest time in between. I always feel like I'm getting fatigued, and I figured it was because of my lack of continuous oxygen, so this confirmed that. I didn't realize the pocket of air was there. I feel like I'm always gasping for air, even right after taking a breath. So it could be a combination of me holding my breath too long, and also the fact that I'm out of shame, haha. Thanks for the instruction! I'll give it a go.

@GoodNewsForStrangers

6 жыл бұрын

Are you a better swimmer than before now?

Great!...Thank you!

thanks for the video! really helpful :)

A good video, I always struggle with proper breathing form while swimming.

great stuff! Thanks.

Thanks ! very informative

Thanks for the advice!

very helpful

Awesome - we like it ☺

Thanks. Two good tips I picked up: look behind, and exhale through nose.

@proudlyindian001

5 жыл бұрын

Tt

@proudlyindian001

5 жыл бұрын

Rangilara

Great lesson. Thank you.

Great instructions！

very good!

Great !

Exhale, Exhale, Exhale. Thank you. Im 37 years old and still trying to swim and breath at the same time.

Wow I've been corrected many times through this vid, firstly, with the breathing that turning almost my whole head back to the surface because I thought if my face would still be with the waters some water will rush to my mouth while inhaling.

@USMastersSwimming

2 жыл бұрын

So glad the video helped! Check out more technique videos on our dedicated Freestyle Playlist. Or, subscribe to our channel and you will get alerts when we post new content!

Helpful video

Wow, now I know why I never can do freestyle for too long. My breathing sucks, which tires me out so quickly. Good tips.

Thank you!

THIS HELPED SO MUCH WITH EXHALING I WAS EXHALING THROUGH MY MOUTH TY

Good!!!

Just started swimming and when i try to freestyle swim i feel like im getting panic attacks when my face is underwater. I have no problem with diving but when i freestyle i feel like im not getting enough air.

@marysikulu

10 жыл бұрын

Same here

@athenasawsumtv

10 жыл бұрын

That sometimes happens with me usually starting on my 3rd to 4th lap.

@worldwidequiz3477

10 жыл бұрын

Athena Chen Well after three weeks of training (maybe) it should all start feeling more natural. I swam from age 4 to 16, and only on my last every length did it all come together and i beat my pools record set by my Olympic coach who was 30 when he set it. 16 years on and i got back in a pool only a few days ago and i'm back to being 4, i can hardly do two lengths without not getting enough air breathing every fourth stroke. It will get better.

@zrmaja

10 жыл бұрын

World Wide Quiz thank you. Ive masterd it quite well actually. :)

@User_11_14

2 жыл бұрын

@Daniel Z can you please share your experience? How did you master it ? I too feel suffocated and shortness of breath.. even though I take my head out for breathe, it feels like I did not get enough air and I stand for air in the middle of the pool

I love swimming

thank you for such an interesting video;)

This was really helpful to me :)

thank you

thanks a ton sir :)

mistakes is so awesome to learn we want a mistake that you can learn from it then you can do better

thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for the tips. After many many years, I finally leaned to breathe through my mouth. In our 75' pool, I need to pause and take a few breaths before completing the lap. I am not breathing through my nose. It seems, I need to exhale through the nose AS WELL so when I come up for air, I can take in through mouth as well as nose. Is this right?

my mistake..thanks a lot

am a put this to the test,sounds legit

I have a problem with the stroke in freestyle, I have been watching the video and realize that the timing is my problem I can not keep the arm in front waiting for the recovery of the other arm. Thanks

Inspire......!

i'm soooooooo guilty of this... all of it

I've watched damn near every video, had two coaches and have spent 2 months trying to learn freestyle and all I've gotten is more and more confused! " The air at the surface is just as good as the air 10" above" smart ass Stu! We (me, I) rotate so i can get air! Not "A bite of air" as you say, but a freaking lung full. I'm a distance runner and I don't exhale for 3 to 4 strides before i inhale, so why is this coached in swimming. So confused. Gonna give this till the end of October(3rd month) then i'm sticking to land based sports.