How Proper Breathing Helps Swimmers
Proper breathing—especially exhaling—provides a lot of benefits for swimmers:
It helps you to swim faster. Having lungs full of air makes your chest too buoyant, making your body move like a seesaw around your central core. This instability causes your legs to sink in the water, creating unnecessary drag. Your body feels heavier and less stable, resulting to reduced speed.
Swimming releases tension, especially when you exhale properly. It helps you create easier, longer, and more fluid strokes without too much effort, so you use your energy effectively.
Many scientific tests have proven that breathing relieves stress. This makes you calmer, and improves your mental clarity, focus, and concentration.
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