So you want to swim but don't know how to breath correctly.

Swimming breath

We have talked about how important cross training is and some of the various sports that compliment what we are doing. Swimming is one of the best exercises for the entire body.
Many of you have expressed that while you might like to swim and/or have been swimming all your life, don't know how to breath correctly.
Without proper breathing, we all know you throw off the stroke to say nothing of being able to sustain it, if you aren't breathing as you should.
That was exactly my problem when I wanted to do my first triathlon. I could swim the length of the pool while holding my breath but that wouldn't get me far in a longer swim. So I contacted Bob Rodriguiez, coach for Ft. Bragg Aquatic Swim Team, and with just a couple of lessons I was swimming a mile without stopping. He is available for any kind of swim instruction from the basics to improving your stroke to, yes, teaching you how to breath.
He has a wonderful manner and many analogies in his back pocket so he'll find something you'll relate to for that light-bulb moment.

His # is 937-4271 and e-mail: LandB@mcn.org