How To Do Bilateral Breathing

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Thank you. So this is a guide to bilateral breathing. Ok, so you'll see here that he's breathing on every third stroke.

So effectively, bilateral breathing just means that we breathe on both sides, rotating to the left and then to the right. What were going to show now is a drill that can be used to encourage decent breathing technique on both sides before you put it into a pattern. One arm.

Now Theo is doing a one arm drill where he's kicking and just blowing out, keeping his hands in front until he needs to breathe. So just blowing out, blowing out, blowing out, blowing out, breath, blowing out, blowing out, blowing out, and blowing out, breath. The difficult part that people find about the breathing is getting used to blowing out just the right amount.

This drill allows you to time to focus just on breathing out and when you reach that point where you need a breath, you're starting to feel a little bit empty, then you move your arm and your head and body at the same time. So in effect having a cue point rather than thinking about lots of separate drills to do. We'll see that one more time again, one more time.

Okay, arm and head. Breath. And then you meet back at front until you need the next breath so whenever the arms are in front, your just blowing out, consistently blowing out until you need the next breath again.

This is a drill that can be used to try and get the quality of the breath transferred from one side to the other. Quite often, it's beat to learn to breathe on one side first but then you can transfer using this drill, the skills that you've learned from one to the other. After you've done that, we can go back to full stroke and putting a pattern in.

so this time he'll do a breath and then two arms. So we'll go back to freeze again, freeze again. So you'll see him take a breath then one arm, two arms, breath, one arm, two arm, breath, one arm, two arm, breath.

So the pattern works around the first breath. So it's breath one, two, three. Breath one, two, three.

Breath one, two, three. Breath one, two, and three. So that was a guide to bilateral breathing.

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