“…In the elite athlete, the respiratory system may be a limiting factor to endurance performance (Bye, Farkas, & Roussos, 1983;Lavin, Guenette, Smoliga, & Zavorsky, 2013). Swimming is an interesting event to study the respiratory system since swimmers usually have very large lungs (Andrew, Becklake, Guleria, & Bates, 1972).…”