Swimming: How to Breathe Freestyle

A discussion about breathing in freestyle swimming

Freestyle Breathing Tips

Swimming Got You Out of Breath? Whether you are swimming for pleasure, training for a triathlon, or you swim competitively, the most effective way of enhancing your performance and increasing your enjoyment of swimming is to improve your technique. One aspect of the freestyle technique that many less experienced swimmers and new triathletes find difficult to learn is how to breathe. In fact, the need to breathe creates one of the biggest challenges for anyone trying to swim freestyle efficiently. However, breathing becomes much easier if you remember to relax, breathe out (when your face is in the water), rotate your head with your body to breathe, and try to keep your face partially in the water when you inhale. Watch the video to learn more…

Freestyle Breathing

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A basic beginners yoga breathing routine a great start for any yoga class to centre the mind . Basic Pranayama is good for alot of aspect of yoga. The simple act of learning to control the breath has a number of beneficial effects on your wellbeing, ranging from increasing your energy, to improved relaxation into sleep. It purifies the body by flushing away the gaseous by products of metabolism and will also help you to remain calm in the face of the challenges that we encounter in our …

The Breath in Yoga Postures

If you have read my other articles on the breath, you will understand a little more about the importance of the breath, so let’s relate it to your yoga postures – asanas. Asana in Sanskrit means steady pose. When practicing any posture there are three ways for the posture – moving into the posture, holding it – this is where the steady pose comes into affect, and then moving out of the posture. And each of these stages of the posture you synchronise with the breath to achieve the most benefit. You allow the breath to surround the movement, so you initiate the breath and then make the movement.

- When you inhale, the body opens and expands
- When you exhale, the body folds or contracts

So in the beginning try to allow the breath to guide you to the length of the movement, for example, if you are raising you arms as you inhale and you do not have enough breath before you reach you goal of having your arms raised fully, then you can pause, breath then exhale as you lower your arms. In time and with practice your breath will naturally become longer. Allow your breath, your friend and now your teacher to guide you. If your breath is strained in any way this is the time to release the posture.

- Inhale when moving into back bends e.g. cobra
- Exhale when moving into forward bends e.g. forward bend
- Exhale when moving into side bends e.g. triangle
- Exhale when moving into twists e.g. half spinal twist

Breath and holding postures

When you have become more aware of your breath and using it to come into and out of postures you start to hold the posture for longer without holding, straining or retaining the breath. If the breath does not feel right for you, it is time to come out of the posture and relax for a moment. In time holding a posture allows you to experience the intimate connection between your body, breath and mind. The breath is the link between the unity of the body and mind, which is Yoga.

 

 

Michelle Cross has over 18 years experience in the health and wellness industry, practicing various complementary therapies and teaching Hatha Yoga. She uses her experience to treat, teach and guide people to live a more positive, healthy and fulfilling life. http://www.yogarelax.co.uk http://www.michellecross.co.uk

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Yoga and Breathing

Breath is life.

We are able to survive days without food or water, however deprive us of breath and we would only last a few minutes. Knowing this, it is amazing how little attention we pay to the importance of breathing.

It’s a great idea to start to think of your breath as your closest friend. From the moment you are born the breath stays with you until the moment you die. Unless you have breathing problems, you probably are barely aware of your breath, you take it for granted unintentionally of course. Just because your breath is automatic doesn’t mean you are breathing to your optimum though.

In yoga the breath is of utmost importance, for the breath delivers oxygen to every cell in our bodies and brain and it also gives us the vital energy (prana) from the air we breathe. So even if you do not practice yoga, you can still use the breath to benefit you. Proper breathing helps us to control the vital energy (prana) and thus control the mind, which helps deeper relaxation.

So how do you breathe correctly?

We've forgotten…

It is natural to breathe using the diaphragm and abdomen. If you watch babies, you will notice that they breathe in this way. As we become older, factors like stress and inactivity cause us to take shallow breaths. These shorter shallow breaths use only the upper chest. This is why I say most people have forgotten how to breathe… They breathe shallowly, usually through the mouth and don't use the diaphragm or only use it a little. Breathing like this only a small amount of oxygen and energy is taken in and only the top parts of the lungs are being used.

Breathing correctly means breathing through the nose, keeping the mouth closed, so that the nose warms and filters the air taken in, and involves a full inhalation where the abdomen expands causing the diaphragm to move down and an exhalation through the nose, where the abdomen falls causing the diaphragm to move up. Breathing like this uses more of the lungs and the diaphragm is actively being used benefiting you by taking in more oxygen, giving you more energy.

Which is the most essential stage of breathing – inhalation or exhalation?

You might think it is the inhalation, when in fact it is the exhalation that holds the key. Why? The more stale air you exhale, the more fresh air or oxygen you can inhale and this is distributed to every cell in your body giving you more energy and nourishing every cell in the body so that the body works at its optimum.

So start to observe your breath and breathe in life to the full!

 

Michelle Cross has over 18 years experience in the health and wellness industry, practicing various complementary therapies and teaching Hatha Yoga. She uses her experience to treat, teach and guide people to live a more positive, healthy and fulfilling life. http://www.yogarelax.co.uk http://www.michellecross.co.uk

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