The skill level of the swimmer and pleasure which he derives in water directly depends on breath control. The longer you will be able to hold the breath without discomfort and fear, the better you will be able to dive and submit water depths.
Instruction
1. Duration of breath holding both under water, and on air, directly depends on the volume of your lungs. Gradually increase it that lungs and the diaphragm could keep as much as possible oxygen after the breath. Drag out breath, trying to inhale and exhale consciously, slowly and quietly. You can do it in transport, at cinema, in any the location, comfortable for you. Keep silence and tranquility, be not distracted by external irritants. Slowly inhale, including seconds. Exhale under the score, gradually trying to balance the breath and the exhalation. Each time try to stretch the breath and the exhalation, to make them longer.
2. Complicate exercises on breath extension. Use exercises from yoga. Full yogovsky breath quiet and measured. It begins with the stomach, smoothly passes into the diaphragm, the last the breast rises. The exhalation occurs in the return sequence: there is the air lungs, then the diaphragm, the last releases the stomach, slightly taking root to the backbone.
3. When you learn to drag out breath, carry out delays after the breath and the exhalation. Don't torment to yourself with refusal of oxygen, let breath holding will become comfortable. Gradually delays will become longer. Do this exercise of the house in the mornings. Practice it in the pool though it is much more difficult to keep breath holding under water.
4. Before immersion in water carry out artificial ventilation of the lungs. With the force inhale and exhale air. Try to let out the push the air outside – quickly, but up to the end. Also do breaths sharp and full. In the couple of minutes of such breath the body will be saturated with oxygen and within several minutes it won't want to breathe at all. However don't fall to water right after such breath: it can cause dizziness.
5. During swimming synchronize the movement with breath. Rising over water, take the breath. Exhale in water, falling down. Keep the range of movement and breath, observe the strict rhythm of breaths and exhalations.