I swim mainly backstroke and I was wondering if you have any advice for oxygen debt. My streamline at practice is great but when I am at a meet I need to breathe the stroke before and after my flip turn. I blow out a lot of air for my flipturn but I need to or water fills up my nose. My streamline only last a couple seconds because I NEED to breathe. I could knock off so much time if I could get this down. I know there is not much advice you could give me but I thought it was worth a try
I’m assuming you are talking about freestyle flipturns since you referenced breathing the stroke before and after the wall. What I would try:
1. In practice, make sure you aren’t breathing into your walls. Right now, you said you need to breathe the stroke before the wall. Try to take that to two strokes, on every wall. Challenge yourself. The more you do something, the more your body is used to it, and won’t complain when you attempt to breathe less in competition. The same goes for strokes off the wall.
2. This ties in with point 1, but make progress gradually. When I first started fixing my turns, I first added one more stroke into the wall before breathing, then two, and THEN I added one more coming off of the wall. You wouldn’t start a beginners gymnastics class by performing an olympic-worthy beam routine, and you shouldn’t try to instantly have olympic-level turns. Change takes time.
3. Swimming is very much a mental sport. If you have good walls in practice, but bad ones in competition, it may just be your brain getting the best of you. Try to visualize the race before you swim it, telling yourself about how each wall is going to go, how many strokes you will take in, how many you will take out. It may sound ridiculous, but if you have a plan, the race goes much more smoothly.
4. If you’re on your stomach while under the water, the water won’t have anywhere to get into. Your nose is basically a hole in your face. The reason that you have to blow so much air out of your nose is to keep the water out of that hole. This only happens when you are on your back (gravity or buoyancy, I’m not sure about the exact science.) Try to flip to your stomach while under the water.
to sum up, practice what you want to do and clear your mind before the race. Your problem does seem psychological, and I don’t know that much about that side of swimming lmao. Try to do things that pump you up before the race!
That’s all I got for now I hope it helps.
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