18 tricks to teach your body

[ckj846]

Re: RE: 18 tricks to teach your body

Hyperventalating before a race for swimming isn't a good idea. ckj or whoever said that would help them is wrong. Say you're swimming a 100. You'll be able to hold your breath 10 seconds longer then you normally would have.. but unless you're an idiot you don't hold your breath until you HAVE to breath again when you are racing. It's pointless for competitive swim.

Umm, like I said before, every breath that you take takes off about a tenth of a second from your overall time. That 10 extra seconds could mean not taking a breath on the first lap of a 100. Then, you would probably start to breathe in a normal breath pattern for the rest of the race. I guess I'll try it out when swim season for high school comes around. I'm not going to hyperventilate myself to the extent of dizziness, just enough so that I can go farther without taking a breath.
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