Here's the right way to get oxygen to your muscles. The rules of breathing are simple in sports like cycling or running. You take a breath. You take more.
Oxygen is there for the asking.
A regular no-brainer. And then there is for swimming, where it sometimes seems, to frustrated novices and cross-trainers, that the simple act of getting oxygen to your muscles is a monumental task. And the stakes are high. It might not be your conditioning that's at fault. It might be your lack of breathing technique that gets in the way of a good workout or discourages you from swimming altogether.