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LisaS · 02-08-2008, 11:56 AM

I learned to swim as a kid so don't remember ever having trouble coordinating breaths with strokes but understand it conceptually and if you aren't getting proper breaths it would make your HR go up disproportionately to your effort.

what happens with other strokes like back stroke or breast stroke where your breathing would be easier to coordinate - do you do better with the breathlessness and accompanying high HR?
or if you just use a kickboard and do laps where you don't have to coordinate taking a breath with arm stroking?

02-08-2008, 11:56 AM	#7 (permalink)
LisaS dividing by zero Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Orange Cty, CA Posts: 3,687 My Profile	I learned to swim as a kid so don't remember ever having trouble coordinating breaths with strokes but understand it conceptually and if you aren't getting proper breaths it would make your HR go up disproportionately to your effort. what happens with other strokes like back stroke or breast stroke where your breathing would be easier to coordinate - do you do better with the breathlessness and accompanying high HR? or if you just use a kickboard and do laps where you don't have to coordinate taking a breath with arm stroking? __________________ my training log "Have fun and be determined to finish"-- Jack "UpNorth", 9. "You see yourself every day. Nothing changes. Change comes in an explosion of awareness. You wake up one day and it dawns on you that it's not a sleep line but a wrinkle." - Deserve (aka Gabe)