How Do You Learn Bilateral Breathing When Swimming Freestyle?
Like anything else we do which involves both sides of our bodies, breathing alternately on both sides while swimming is a challenge to learn. Teaching yourself or your children to bilateral breathe can be done, but the earlier the better. It becomes more of a challenge to bilateral breathe the longer someone has been swimming freestyle and breathing to one side. Don’t feel badly if learning to breathe on both sides (bilateral breathing) seems difficult to you. It is contrary to the way we develop. Think about learning to write. We favor one side. To learn to write on both sides is possible, but the older someone attempts to learn this, the more difficult. But writing is something which can be done successfully with only one side. Sports, on the other hand (no pun intended) are different. Successful basketball players must learn and practice dribbling and shooting from both sides. Soccer players must be able to kick and dribble with both feet, and baseball players can gain an edge by be
