So if you follow us on social media, you may have seen some of our great triathletes doing some breathing exercises. And so the breathing exercises are to make sure that the rotation of the head is in line. And the breathing exercise is basically standing here facing the motor facing the front of the pool. And all you do is you get them to stand at attention. And then what they have to do is either look at the house or look at the wall. Look at the house, look at the wall. And so that is basically all you're doing when you breathe, is to rotate your head within that line. Now, there might be a slight lift of the chin in order to stand more at attention. But the reality is you want to keep that motion as simple as possible. And so what a lot of people do is they'll lift their head, or they'll lean or tilt or talk or they do all these things that get this off this access. And so it's adding a lot of stress and strain to that rotation. As well as making it more difficult to breathe. We have plenty of pictures of athletes when they're breathing, their mouth is tilted to the bottom of the head. So the top of their head is very high, the bottom of their mat, their head, or their mouth is very close to the surface of the water because they've tilted up. So unless you're a whale and you have a blowhole up there, the most important thing to get close or high in the surface, or above the surface is your mouth. So rotating your head is going to be far more effective than lifting or tilting. So be very careful. So here we'll try to demonstrate good breathing and just rotational breathing, rather than any kind of lift. So remember, look at the house. Look at the wall. That's all we're trying to do.

And hopefully, I did that right. It felt good, was just a rotation, pretty much locked in with the body. The head is disconnected from the body as you're swimming. But then when you go to breathe, to lock it in and just have a go with the body. It's just very effective and very efficient.


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