breast stroke, side, and back i tend not to have the high heart rate. that is actually one of the things that started me thinking that that was the problem. and i find that once the breathing goes then the heart rate goes up and i need to breath more and then it gets even more out of rhythm and it just snowballs. but i am trying to breath every third stroke but i am really bad at breathign to my left side and that is usually how the rhythym gets messed up. i tend to accidentally suck in water on my left side which means i probably am not rolling over well enough. and once i suck in water it is hard to get the rhythym back.
being in the water for me is kind of stressful as it is. when i was a kid (like 3) i fell into a pool and didnt know how to swim and almost died. they had to resuscitiate (sp) me but i was told my heart had stopped. so i think i panic a little when i suck in water. so there is most likely a psychological element to this. i just need to calm the ef down.
