What is the right way to breathe in butterfly stroke-swimming?

Question

when I come up to breathe I find myself coming out of the water bent backwards, stiff as a stick. any suggestions?

Answer 1

when your face is in the water you exhalate with the nouse when you are out of the water take your breathe with the mouth you have 2 do that with all the different swimming styles

Answer 2

Use a snorkel.

Answer 3

You need to breath as you are pulling yourself up out of the water and than use your body weight to throw yourself back into the pool in a forward motion. This way you aren't just dead weight in the water.

Answer 4

There is only a short window for breathing in the butterfly. If this window is missed, swimming becomes very difficult. Optimally, a butterfly swimmer synchronizes the taking of breaths with the undulation of the body to simplify the breathing process; doing this well requires some attention to butterfly stroke technique. The breathing process begins during the underwater "press" portion of the stroke. As the hands and forearms move underneath the chest, the body will naturally rise toward the surface of the water. With a minimum of effort, the swimmer can lift the head to break the surface fully. The swimmer breathes in through the mouth. Experienced swimmers continue looking toward the bottom of the pool while they inhale to keep the body balanced and in a straight line. The head goes back in the water after the arms come out of the water as they are swinging forward over the surface of the water. If the head stays out too long, the recovery is hindered. The swimmer breathes out through mouth and nose till the next breath. Some swimmers, most notably Denis Pankratov, breathe to the side as in the front crawl, but their timing is otherwise the same. Such a style of breathing is quite uncommon though and generally discouraged by coaches.

Normally, a breath is taken every other stroke. This can be sustained over long distances. Breathing every stroke slows the swimmer down. Other intervals of breathing practiced by elite swimmers include the "two up, one down" approach in which the swimmer breathes for two successive strokes and then keeps the head in the water on the next stroke. Swimmers with good lung capacity might also breathe every 3rd stroke during sprints or the finish.