Thus, the challenge is to examine h

Thus, the challenge is to examine how different breathing patterns inflfluence arm coordination to determine the besttraining strategies to ensure balanced coordination. First, it seems important to establish how a unilateral breathing pattern contributes to coordination asymmetry and the disturbance in propulsive continuity, particularly when breathing is done to the nonpreferential breathing side. Second, it would be interesting to determine whether swimmers could use axed (i.e., patterns that mostly maintain the head in the forward axis, as with a frontal snorkel or during apnea) and bilateral breathing patterns to rebalance arm coordination.