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Breathing off those walls is bad

CharlieEckert

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Keeping with the subject of physics of swimming, I'll be discusing why breathing right after the walls is a very bad idea. When you enter the water after your dive or when you push off the wall after your turn, you should be in the streamline postion as shown in the picture.

This position minimize the surface area exposed in the direction you are moving reducing the drag images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR0Fwv2Jme_Z-FE89N_32J41ZUOJVgD_2IPVLPCCw2g0Q3piBETMwforce. When you breathe while swimming, you pick your head up which causes the rest of your body to sink. This increases the surface area exposed and increases the drag force. The reasion breathing off walls and off your start is bad, is becuase you are going your fastest off your walls/start. And since drag force is related to speed, a bigger drag force will be applied therefore you will slow down more then if you breathed in the middle of the pool!

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