Why Breathing Less Helps Swim Faster

[@SkillsNT]

If you liked this video, you will LOVE this other one. It is Everything You Need To Know To Swim Better: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sHLOl6N9iKhojJosi=zBvzruAN9vxGst8J Did you do the BOLT score test? What was your result?

[@ladyinthetrampcinderellaman]

19 secs with asthma

[@ladyinthetrampcinderellaman]

tried it twice

[@binary964]

42s

[@dirtyduck6987]

30s

[@justmarce_0779]

17s...but I know there is ways to improve now so thank you for the tips

[@sekai963]

I came back to this video and yes breathing less does make you faster! Yesterday, I was in my swim meet and I had to swim 50 free. What I did is every 4 strokes is one breathe (which I don't normally do) and I did that until the end. Apparently my dad recorded it and I saw that I am a body length away from my competitors. After I touched the wall, I never felt tired bc I wasn't breathing for the last 5 meters. I won silver on 50 free. Thank you!

[@raphaeldevalle9653]

Cool! I have been working on one breath every 4 as well. Works for me! 👍🏻

[@kzeesabalande7826]

hi

[@blackieja]

I'll have to give this a try starting from tomorrow Sunday 19/3/23 and I hope for improvement 😇🇬🇧🇯🇲

[@stevethea5250]

What did first place do?

[@mooripo]

Best channel about swimming in all youtube, no matter how many other channels I watch, not a single one really competes against your channel when it comes to EXPLAINING correctly THANKS, I learned SO MUCH from your during 10 months

[@yourcutedarkoverlord]

I will say, DO NOT TAPE YOUR MOUTH if you have, suspect or otherwise are known to have SLEEP APNEA. It is dangerous as you will simply choke/suffocate and you might not wake up. It's safer to sleep at an incline or if you're fortunate enough to use a machine, use it. The dry mouth bit sucks, but at least you wake up with the discomfort as opposed to never waking up again. Just a warning is all I am saying! You can try snore strips, but if you have sleep apnea they might not work because the collapse or obstruction could be in your mouth/throat/chest and not your nostrils. Other than that I am really happy with the progress I've made with my swimming I come back to rewatch your videos to see how you swim and to keep in mind what I should be doing. And for about a month or so of swimming, only 2 days on the weekends, I think I've come super far! Breathing was the ahrdest part for me because my throat would close up immediately and I could not breathe out. It was almost involuntary, like I HAD to swallow. Now I am more relaxed and have no issues with breathing out but my score was less than 20 so I will definitely be working up to this!

[@richardwalkowiak9148]

Thank you for this channel, I’m an Air Force Special Warfare recruiter and show my candidates your videos all the time to help them learn a new skill! Gold stuff presented

[@rakhipeswani]

This is the most important video for advanced swimmers to get better! Doing 50m in each stroke is fine but it leaves me hyperventilating after, especially with fly! I am certain that these are keys to unlock the next level! Thank you!

[@Mrdibzahab]

Other swim channels never deal with topics like this... thanks for sharing this most interesting information. I will give it a try tomorrow in the pool :)

[@jaromino]

me too

[@akagetobimaru1994]

Didbit help

[@nancytripp2024]

That's so true, that's why we cannot live without SNT, a mirror.

[@dharmendrathacker]

Yeah 👍 you are absolutely right MrDibzahab ! Other Channels, so far as I know, have not gone through so deeply and scientifically in teaching and guiding the Basic and Proper Techniques of Swimming ! 👍 All Credits and Salutes go to the Instructor and his active team !!! God bless them 🙏 all 🎉❤🎉

[@smilechynwa]

I can’t with the AAron and Denise 😂😂

[@Refuse2Lose33]

Aye-aye-Ron & Dee-nice

[@drkwoods1310]

Learning to breathe should be the first exercise you learn it's essential to everything else. These videos are excellent..

[@nap163020]

Really thrilled that AAron and Dee-nice were able to participate in this video. 😁

[@loomerco]

I have always swam and did some free diving. Recently started to freedive more seriously and this video just hits the spot about co2 tolerance! Bolt 30. Tried the e25 a week ago, where I managed to finish but had to mouth breath due water. Tried again today and have finished it twice. Thanks

[@SkillsNT]

Congratulations! That's great

[@PursuingHeaven]

Your breathing instruction is exceptional. I have been looking at lots of videos to improve and comfortable swim a mile which I have always been able to do, but I am aging and need to learn to do it more comfortably with less intensity-I want to be able to swim relaxed. This is helping.

[@barneygoogle4003]

When I was learning to swim, I felt that I wasn't getting enough air. I was inhaling again before totally expelling all the air from the previous breath. I found that by slowing down the cycle to allow complete exhalation - steadily and completely expelling all the inhaled air, I felt calm and relaxed in the water. It was an easy and very beneficial transition. Didn't have to hold my breath - just fast inhale, slow and steady exhale.

[@ScottishRy87]

love the A a Ron and de nice reference

[@aeropcs]

Key and Peele?

[@BrisLS1]

A-Aaron and Dee-Nice?

[@Hanane_Oreiby]

Absolutely love this vid, I will train now on to increase my co2 tolerance. Many thanks for sharing!

[@seamuscavanaugh5933]

Even as a Collegiate swimmer this was a really interesting and helpful video, I'd never really heard some of these concepts before!

[@Kdpainted]

I really appreciate this, I’ve been looking four different ways to improve my breathing, and this was very helpful

[@SkillsNT]

Glad it was helpful!

[@spartanalphamode2987]

I’ve actually come to holding my breath under water for almost 7 minutes. It’s very hard to do at first, but I’ve been doing it for almost 15 yrs since I was a kid. I tend to fish inside deep waters that can range from 25ft to 35ft and stay there for 6 to 7 minutes. That’s enough time to catch any fish I like. People actually think I’m kind of special, but that’s years of training.

[@nickemens7810]

Perhaps you could share your training methods…it would be interesting.

[@stefanhoffmann2353]

You don’t seem to understand the fundamental difference between a BOLT breathhold and your 7 mins breathhold, right?

[@spartanalphamode2987]

@@stefanhoffmann2353 No I do. It’s just that once you learn how to hold your breath under water for at least 5 to 7 minutes you can control your bolt breathing much better.

[@stefanhoffmann2353]

@@spartanalphamode2987 That‘s exactly the fundamental difference: The BOLT is nothing about cortical control. As soon as you engage willpower, you compromise the value of the BOLT. Maximum breathholds are a matter of willpower, it’s a struggle of your ego with your physiology. Max. breathholds are not even beneficial for training max. breathholds. They just train the ego, but with no chance to ever win this battle against your body. Even a 10 mins breathhold is no victory of the ego. Let the time just be a little longer than your max. breathhold and the physiology will take over again. By shutting down the ego and eventually let it die. It won’t influence your control pause in a beneficial way when you master extreme breathhold. Just the opposite, because your body associates it with life threatening stress. If you can’t let go your ego completely when measuring BOLT, the measured time might be longer suggesting a better result. But it isn’t.

[@spartanalphamode2987]

@@stefanhoffmann2353 I know what you mean, but in terms of DNA and how your genes are composed that’s how long you’ll eventually be able to master holding your breath underwater for as long as I do. It’s got nothing to do with willpower or ego, but how long you train those muscles. It’s basically like taking singing lessons where you are supposed to drink tons of water to be able to sing properly breath properly etc. One thing you didn’t mention was diet and that’s very important too so as long as you don’t invoke your ego like you said. I kind of wonder why you brought ego to the conversation since ego is a hard topic to talk about. Do you mind explaining further on ego? because I simply don’t understand.

[@nikmartin6668]

I’ve swum my whole life and have never heard about the E25 or E nasal swims, but am excited to try them. As a masters/pre-masters coach for beginners my swimmers are often having trouble with breathing. This video has given me more knowledge to try to help them.

[@kimrobinson3017]

These videos are awesome. I’m a new lap swimmer and your explanations are so thorough. Thank you

[@jonathan9506]

Excellent video. After three years of suffering g panic, step-by-step there is a progress. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@teresanguyen7751]

Thank you for the video. There are a lot of useful information that I can apply them for my oceanman training. I need to watch it over and over again to be able to understand it completely

[@courageouscarla1804]

Love this channel! I'm learning to swim and exercise in the water 😊🏊 A content suggestion - review the Paralympian athlete swim techniques and disabled swimmers

[@pitbullq]

Your knowledge about swimming is really Impressive. Thanks for sharing! Huge Bravo for you!

[@karenarnett5167]

I swam on a team for five years from age 10-15. I have always wondered whether there was something from my swimming that led to sleep apnea. I got so accustomed to infrequent breathing while swimming. I didn’t know if that hunch made sense but your video brings up the concept of CO2 tolerance which rings true. I suspect I just got really good at overriding the high CO2 warning and that transferred into breathing patterns at other times including sleep.

[@aurorasurrealis1032]

That doesn't sound healthy 😅

[@cinmac3]

its not getting out of this pattern is very hard.

[@rogerhuston8287]

This is my biggest problem. I use to swim as a kid, but I had a bike accident where both lungs collapsed. I had 10 broken ribs and a bunch of other problems. I'm literally starting over from ground zero. Just breathing through the nose is hard.

[@AT-pw9dx]

I wish the very best in improvements for your journey ❤Stay encouraged

[@AT-pw9dx]

Keep us posted please!

[@nealburky7883]

Top content. Thanks a lot for the free videos as well. Highly appreciated 🙏

[@khaledaboshady6386]

Best swimming content on youtube. every time i watch your videos it gives me motivation for swimming although i am not a competitive swimmer. Thank you

[@cannonball9478]

Absolutely fantastic video. Thanks very much

[@Wooniverse7]

This video is most valuable information for me. Sincere thanks for your efforts!

[@paw2287]

Truly enjoy your channel. Love your graphics! Thank you.

[@baligo3760]

Very interesting material indeed. Thank you! I started swimming a lot more with a snorkel recently (to improve my technique while not bothering with breathing attention) but I noticed I am still out of breath at the end of the pool, even as I am breathing as much as I want. After snorkel session, when I try without the snorkel I noticed I am not performing very well, very quickly going out of breath and stressed. I think that information explains why - may be I am training cardio with the snorkel but I am not training my CO2 tolerance at all. Should I stop the snorkel completely, or reduce the usage?

[@mooripo]

*I did it :D* I swam 25meters without breathing after learning to swim after just 4 months (couldn't even float before) I suppose that I could do it in a short period of time while being just a beginner is because I was always a medium distance runner (7-9km) with good rhythm and high breathing capacity and that my breathing with time started to be adapted to swimming, before when I had just learned, I couldn't hold my breathe while doing freestyle for more than 7 seconds despite being able to hold it outside water for 1 mint without much effort (bought snorkel so that I could work out on my freestyle technique, so much that I couldn't breathe) In all these 4 months I only did it twice, other times I did breathe from 1 to 3 times in the 25m, my obj is to be able to do the 25m without breathing at will and to do the 50m with only 1 breathe, final objective is to be able to breathe on water the same way I do on land while I am jogging, until I am exhausted, and to float on my back and recover :D

[@SkillsNT]

Congratulations! That's a great journey!

[@franciscogerardohernandezr4788]

Let us pause for a moment at 2:20 and admire how coach slides through that 25.

[@hemavenkateshbezawada6466]

Anyone else got the reference from Substitute teacher from Key n Peele ?

[@kentajin7860]

My highest without breath is 2 minutes and 05 seconds! Also, i would love to see David Popovici freestyle analysis!

[@k9zomi4]

Thank you for the explanation, I have completed 3 month swimming but I was never taught to breathe through nose. All these months I swam breathing with my mouth and most of the time i suffocate and couldn't control my breath after covering some distance like 15m and max 25m. And my mouth was dry, I hope I will practice/learn this technique from tomorrow.

[@lucaspalottapulicci6588]

Really, thank you for all this informations!!

[@florg3183]

I always learn something in this channel. It's wonderful 😊

[@AryanKumar-jo1pz]

9:30 *WARNING!!!!* Your nasal passage could be small or clogged for some reason causing lack of oxygen while sleeping Making you open your mouth to get more oxygen So, *CONSULT DOCTOR FIRST*

[@SkillsNT]

Never listen to a KZbin video without consulting your doctor first. Either way, if this happens you can always open your mouth to breathe. A small tape won't block your mouth shut completely

[@davidsalimi9605]

I am very allergic to chlorine so I use nose plugs. I am perfectly fine by inheling and exhaling through my mouth. I can swim two hours stroke and feel fine.

[@inhumana1subductis]

Super interesting! I've come to your channel bc I couldn't freedive this season (fatherhood takes its toll ;) I never really enjoyed swimming until I found your channel. I get that the swimming sphere probably has a more careful attitude toward dynamic breathhold in swimming sessions. That said, when it comes to contraction management, there are some top knotch insights the freediving community has to offer. I can recommend FreedivePassion on YT, for example. Wouldn't static exhale dives be a good primer for dynamic exhale? Anyway. Don't mind me babbling... Swim fast!

[@jihadaboukir3744]

Wow, what an inspiration and source of precious information .. thank you so much sir :)

[@robohippy]

This sounds kind of backwards. I think it would be interesting to put one of those finger tip oxygen level sensors on your finger after a length of the pool to see what kind of reading you get. I seem to be able to do 30 to 40 seconds with little effort. I can sit relaxed for a while and get a higher reading than if I have been walking around. More stuff to ponder while I am swimming my laps...

[@danielcano700]

I have a hard time exhaling through nose underwater, can I get the same benefits by exhaling through the mouth ?

[@trinasyed9448]

i am a beginner and finding breathing hard while swimming due to chlorine water allergic nose muscles. any tips for that?

[@fedormaksimov8666]

Thank you very much. Is it good exercise breath after 5 strokes 50 m distance then breath after 7 in freestyle? is it increase metebolism? thanks

[@raphaeldevalle9653]

This is super important and useful

[@leschortos9196]

Does this apply to endurance swimming or just sprints.

[@Robertxcapricorn]

Great job Man👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 Thank you!!!

[@desmondtorain5567]

Amazing and thank you

[@julielepage1315]

I am currently learning to swim I am really struggling with learning How to breath finding it very difficult I always feel like I am out of breath.

[@rodolfotva]

Should I do the drill at the beginning? Because I tried at the end of my 3000m training and the result was a disaster 😢

[@kaotictube]

I highly recommend the book Breath by James Nestor, that talks about some of the principles you mentioned in depth. Thanks for the vid.

[@EsterSAlmeida]

Can you please share a few breathing exercises for people with respiratory issues? I have asthma and I struggle with my breathing to the point that I cannot swim more than 25 min without stopping :( Thank you!

[@krikukiks]

9:50 I had the same problem, every morning I had a desert in my mouth. But instead of taping my mouth shut I use some kind of plastic cones that keep my nose open

[@gcostagcosta]

Hi. Are you planning another camp in Asia?

[@jerkov420]

Hey how ya doing A-Aron? Haven't seen you in a while

[@driptcg]

Interesting video, thanks!

[@maxweels]

I find it difficult to swim outside the water, most of the time I swim underwater without ever breathing, in fact I do not know how to breathe and when that happens to me it throws me off balance and asks me for more energy to continue😑

[@ashborn4697]

you also slow down signifcantly when your breathe because decrease of strokes and desync

[@shadowmunky69]

Here for Eh eh Ron !!

[@shadowmunky69]

also De Nice !

[@slovenika9108]

hahaha I´m really laughing!! haha simple hilarious comment!😂😂😂

[@yongduam972]

I love how you say Denise and Aaron 😅

[@trn8061]

Interesting, I can hold for 35 seconds, and managed 8x25's holding 14's with 10 nasal breaths. I did a bit of breath control before with some pull 200's. Maybe that helped?

[@romanhama5377]

Why is key and peele substituting Aaron and De-nise

[@marcojoestar212]

tbh i feel like im breathing too much. i breath for every 2 strokes, and what ive been noticing is when its time to exhale im not really able to exhale much, and for some reason my muscles hurt really fast. that must really mean that i lack co2 in my body

[@liyahn.2522]

thank you very much

[@arazaslani1585]

The way i control my breathing is by thinking, the faster i finish the race, the faster i get to breath. Thinking like that helps me breath less and i manage to swim 100 fr sprint with 4 or less breaths

[@dhawalepranav]

before seeing this video i saw your video in which you mentioned to breathe via mouth. As a beginner should i try to improve the nasal breathing first or should i keep breathing via mouth ?

[@SkillsNT]

While swimming always the mouth. Not swimming always nose

[@dhawalepranav]

@@SkillsNT Thank you 🤗

[@Shinetimeart]

What is hipervantilation

[@ethandove5292]

awesome vid! love the substitute teacher references lolol

[@sadams691]

I hear your comments about not hyperventilating prior to holding your breath. My question is what is the appropriate preparation for the 50 free in terms of breathing while you are on the blocks? I've trained to the point where I can do the event without taking a breath and it is not exceptionally strenuous, but I do take 2-3 deep breaths before the event. I don't know if I would characterize it as hyperventilating, but there is a spectrum and I certainly do more than just one deep breath.

[@AndresGalavisBorden]

Do you have this video in Spanish as well? I want to share it with my coach, this is a great video!

[@SkillsNT]

Si en este canal tenemos todos los vídeos en español kzbin.info/www/bejne/eKOwmHqriq6YmdU

[@AndresGalavisBorden]

@@SkillsNT gracias! Tienen un nuevo suscriptor y quizás alguno más del equipo cuando pase el vídeo. Eso si, seguro que algo de odio también les caerá a ustedes cuando nos toque hacer esos ejercicios 😂

[@LarsRyeJeppesen]

Amazing

[@jakkaj]

im old national swimmer , thx for this explanations

[@Blackjack-rs8vs]

How many seconds needed in Bolt test be able to accomplish E-25 test?

[@SkillsNT]

It depends on your technique and how fast you swim. I needed a bolt of around 25 seconds to completed.

[@masteroogvvay]

Legend has it, if you manage to hold your breath for the entire race, you will discover the fastest route to the afterlife

[@gtralx4742]

I tried to find some more information about this E25 thing but i didn't find anything neither on the web nore in the sources linked in the description. Does anyone have a clue where to find out some more about that?

[@SkillsNT]

You can read the book Oxygen Advantage by Patrick Mckeown

[@nancytripp2024]

Love your presentation and your "Flying Dolphin" design of uniform.

[@nancytripp2024]

Having been trying, amazing 👏

[@Vinnay94]

I always found swimming face down for several strokes to be more relaxing.

[@leila-tx8oy]

i have a huge problem w this :(( i have asthma and i find it very hard to breathe while swimming. i can do distance but i cant hold my breath for long

[@AnhNguyen-hr1ps]

I have stuffy nose. Why only nose breathing?

[@ala-th3ln]

Thanks a lot for this, i'll give it a try. I used to easily be able to breathe every 4 strokes freestyle, now i can barely breathe every 2. And while i swim enough of a distance, just feels like the quality of my swimming is low.

[@zarifatif3463]

PLEASE SKILLS N TALENTS. i can barely swim a 100m without being out of breath but not a bit tired. i feel like i suffocate but my leg position breathing exhaling swimming style is all up to par but i still feel breathless. i tried every way of exhaling. 1.fully exhale 2.only exhale when face in water 3.assertive exhale when turning to breathe 4.holding 60% air every time but nothing works. . i am a bit overweight(24.6 BMI) but am not lazy i swim 5-6 days a week and have improved a lot but breathing still sucks HELP ME PLEASE SKILLS N TALENTS. IS IT AN ENDURANCE ISSUE OR WHAT PLS HELP

[@kw7280]

I self taught swimming 4 years ago, could swim fast, can run continuously for 15 km but couldn’t swim more than 50m continuously until last month I had a breakthrough that I could swim 1200m without stop. Unfortunately I still don’t know why.

[@zarifatif3463]

@@kw7280 i alse made progress now i swim 1250m while fasting i can swim more but havent tried yet

[@robohippy]

Well, I have been playing with this and had a flashback moment. Well 2 actually. One is with the breathing through the nose at the end of the length of the pool. This seemed familiar to me, and I realized it was a calming as in 'Center your Chi Grasshopper' exercise that we used to do in Thai Chi class. Inhale through the nose, and exhale through your mouth. It will actually slow your heart rate down. When you inhale after a length of the pool, your body's natural reaction to the CO2 build up is some deeper than normal breaths. By inhaling through your nose, you slow every thing down. With practice, you can slow it way down. The second flash back was an end of my work out thing I did. I called it my bottom crawl. I have to do a total exhale in order for me to sink in the pool. So, total exhale, push off, no kicking, no arm pulls, just fingers on the bottom, walking I guess I would call it, of the pool to propel me to the other end of the pool. I could make it 3/4 of the way to the other end. I will keep this as part of my work outs. May go back to the finger crawl exercise.

[@jackdarby2168]

A-aron and D-nice ❤

[@apollontv1078]

40 sec flat..at my 1st attempt..is that good enough...??🤔

[@SkillsNT]

👏👏

[@apollontv1078]

@@SkillsNT I believe I can do 50-55 if I push more...but the thing is I don't know how to swim...only flow...🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[@jb2046]

Holy crickets....thank you. This is great information.

[@marydimassi3354]

Holy crickets!! Lol

[@jb2046]

@@marydimassi3354 HR friendly workplace verbage. I use biscuit(s) for the b-word. No one at work has a clue.

[@MrMikeymontemayor]

This is true I did hyperbaric oxygen therapy and this cleared all CO2 fromy system and screwed me up a lot 😊

[@badwagon7799]

For the most fun, have Asthma and them be a swimmer lol

[@cseferiades]

I just recently read Breath by James Nestor who writes about all of this in a thrilling and interesting way. It is a must read!

[@SnorkelingDuck]

Brutal video.

[@seabass2502]

Great video. But you got one thing wrong. Hyperventilation does not increase your oxygen saturation it lowers the carbon dioxide in the blood. Use an Oximeter on the finger we are always fully saturated.

[@SkillsNT]

I've tried. It goes from 96 to 98 ot 99%. And yes it lowers carbon dioxide more significantly.

[@reemabdalhade1613]

That's why I think my anemia decreased when I started swimming and diving

[@clementlacroix3383]

Insane video 💪

[@Tigranion]

I can't swim properly, the most difficult thing in crawling on my stomach for me is to take a breath, I fall under the water in 1 breath and can't recover back, then there's not enough oxygen because I can't take a second breath. At the same time, I can swim about 25 meters holding my breath. Underwater, my oxygen tank holds my breath for 3 minutes. After exhaling, I can hold my breath for 40-60 seconds.

[@SkillsNT]

Impressive and thought provoking. It might be a balance problem. In our method of 5 pillars breathing is the first and balance is second. I think if you could maintain a horizontal and rotational balance you could take a breath comfortably and keep going

[@christopherdoyle4129]

The swim coach really frightens me.😳

[@doventin]

Isn't there a reflex that closes the larynx when submerged, preventing water from coming into the airways (in the blackout case)? I think the people who drown by swallowing water actually do it when still conscious and panicking.

[@23max232323232323]

You should close your epiglottis when holding your breath and not your soft palate. That's what free divers do. Look it up

[@alrogo7158]

Esta en español?

[@SkillsNT]

Si en nuestro canal en español Natación Skills NT

[@ahmetakar5017]

Sir consuquintly ??? should we breath less mean ??? inhailing lesss or exhaeling lesss or what I a very much confused Please answer.

[@harismuzaffar3476]

Slow exhale but dont exhale all of the air.