I am learning to swim and taking a lesson where we do some basic drills. I am not sure if I can show it scientifically but I seem to benifit by swimming on my non-running days.
Today i made some good strides to becoming a swimmer, one of the big problems I had was bad body positioning, so to speak my legs were down and body was at a slant and i was dragging through water. Resulted in being out of breath, tired, pains in shoulder and some stress on neck and back. I tried to correct it my pinning my chin to my chest trying rolling with the stroke etc, but I still felt a drag and it wore me down.
Finally today coach saw it and in one stroke corrected it. Asked me to float on my chest with head down in water and said thats how my body should be, back relaxed not bent and position as if floating. Its also called do so as "butt is reaching for air" or the "butt up" position. Whatever it is, it can be said your trunk (chest back) should be afloat and you should feel it, kinda like what you would if you swam with a buoey between your legs. In this case your limbs move (arm legs) hips start the movement and your trunk just naturally rolls in direction of the forward arm. Secondly, breath by rolling your head, nothing new here, but dont press down on the forward arm, just roll head so that one half of head is in water, the purpose not to loose the floating.
Did that feel good or what, I did not feel tired, breath was normal and all my shoulder aches and pains just went away. Now I need to practice this new "normal" and put it in other strokes where relevant.
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