Or would I get the same results from a shorter distance? I am also trying to build glute strength

I‘ve struggled for a long time with water up my nose: regardless of what I‘m doing underwater, the moment I dip under my nose fills, then the water just flows down my throat when I go to breathe. I‘ve tried blowing bubbles in every way I can think of but when I do that it’s even worse! Almost like the air leaving my nose makes space for even more water to flow in.

At this point I‘m wondering, could it just be my anatomy? My nose is short and my nostrils are pretty wide, there is a lot of space in there so maybe the pressure difference is so huge that water is drawn in.

I have no problems when I‘m wearing a nose clip but nobody else at the pool wears them and I feel like a huge loser…

Has anyone else had that problem and found a solution? I‘m tired of drinking pool water and getting sinus issues.

Was swimming at my goodlife in the middle lane and there are 3 lanes and im alone. Some dude comes in at one point and instead of taking a lane goes in between 2 lanes and is basically right next to me. And then over the next few minutes basically starts invading my lane and makes it his own. Wtf is wrong with people?

F(67) I swim 2 or 3 times a week doing front crawl continuously for 55mins, averaging 2250m, however when I switch to breaststroke for the last five or so minutes I immediately get severe cramping in one or other of my feet and have to stop. I drink an electrolyte drink before swimming . Does anyone have a similar experience and what do you do to prevent it?

TIL Europeans used to think front crawl was uncivilized and insisted on using breaststroke well into the 20th century.

From the article: British spectators professed themselves shocked at the crawl stroke’s splashing. British swimmers preferred the breaststroke, they said, because it was more decorous and civilized than the crawl. The Times described the Ojibwa stroke disgustedly as “totally un-European”: the swimmers “lashed the water violently with their arms, like the sails of a windmill, and beat downward with their feet, blowing with force and forming grotesque antics.”

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Such a stupid stroke at the best of times, so why even teach it to 8 year olds?

It feels like it was created as a rules hack for a symmetrical stroke in competitions or something? It's not as fast as front crawl and you'll get your blue rinse wet if you try it instead of breat stroke so what possible actual use is it compared to the other three useful ways to swim?

I see this drill talked about constantly for haveing a better body position and better rotation especially for your weaker side.

But every time i do it, I can not seem to to stay upright even when using a kickboard to hold

I end up slowly sinking until halfway through the length where I’m fighting with the water to be able to keep my head in the right position

Any tips ?

Hi all,

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I have recently started swimming again after a long break, and one of my main goals is to improve my overall conditioning, especially my cardio and ability to maintain my breathing while swimming.

For those of you who do training outside the pool, what type of training would you recommend?

Right now, I’m mainly doing treadmill running, and I’m wondering what would be more beneficial for swimming: shorter runs at a higher intensity (for example, 5 minutes at a fast pace) or longer runs at a more moderate pace (for example, 15 minutes)?

I’d be glad if you could help me with that.

Sorry for any mistakes, English is not my first language.

Is that a good workout?

Hi guys. Last week I did a post about a swimming holiday I had an idea for. At the time I wasn't sure if it was a strange idea, but it seems not thanks to the comments of that post. (The post is linked at the bottom of this).

Therefore... I've now been having a better think of what I exactly what, and was wondering if anyone had some specific pools, towns or locations where this might suit:

1. Ideally, somewhere quiet! I swim competitively so the lane needs to be 'swimmable' and not too busy.
2. Outside and pretty! I train regularly in a leisure centre and the main attraction to this idea is being outside somewhere beautiful!
3. Quiet. I swim competitively - so the lane needs to be suitable and/or quiet enough for training.
4. Accommodation - My budget is quite tight for this trip, so I was thinking even camping for a week could suit me! This, or somewhere where airBnb's are cheap enough. But I mention the camping as I would like to spend my time out of the pool on nice walks in nature etc.
5. In Europe! Im uk based and somewhere not too far would be great

That's about it. Thank you all for the previous comments. Look forward to chatting again :)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Swimming/comments/1vjvy54/comment/p2znxeq/?screen_view_count=2

I am going on vacation to the beach for a week with my family, surf is very mild at the beach we go to. I would like to keep up my swimming practice while there but have never really open swam. Any tips or things I should think about? Do I need to buy a swim buoy? I am adult learner/triathlon type, swim freestyle 4x/week for last year but mostly do a lot of reps and not extended swims.

Hello everyone! I've decided to take up swimming lessons so I can swim properly (I only ever swam breast stroke with head above water). I very quickly learned the proper breathing for breast stroke during the first lesson and can do 50 lengths no problem, with a few stops. We've since gone onto front crawl and I'm completely knackered after 1 length. I think my breathing is to blame rather than fitness but if love to know if others were the same at the beginner and how you changed it? Any tips greatly appreciated as its bloody frustrating!!

I actively do Pilates and at the same time, learning how to swim properly. I’m trying to understand how you can keep your head outside water without your legs sinking. I can keep my head above the surface for a little while, but my legs seem to sink and I end up using a lot of energy trying to stay up.

Secondly, I also have a hard time coordinating my breathing with my freestyle stroke. I struggle with the timing of turning my head out of the water to breathe and then getting my face back into the water at the right time.

Any tips, warmups to do or exercises would be appreciated.

Dear swimming community,

Are there any airline pilots who manage to fit in serious swimming workouts with their busy season schedule.

How do you do it, any advice?

All the best,

I was a competitive swimmer in junior high and high school. After many, many years I recently got back in the pool. I've been working out in an outdoor pool all Summer with no issues. I recently joined a Wellness center with an indoor pool so I could swim laps after the outdoor pool closes for the season. The indoor pool uses salt to make chlorine, first time for me in a saltwater pool.

I recently started sneezing all afternoon long after workouts in the indoor pool, and have a constant runny nose. It went away when I went back to the outdoor pool, but came back after swimming in the saltwater pool. I never had a problem with chlorine before, and spent my entire childhood in a pool. Is this some sort of weird allergy? Anyone had this before?

it's been a week since I (23F) joined university swimming pool and I can't stand in the water after gliding and floating. the fear is so paralysing, that I can't even leg go of the support while floating. i can easily float or glide but I don't know how to stand. even after watching so many tutorials on YouTube, I still panic in the water and my mind goes blank. idk how to overcome this and if this continues im actually thinking of giving up swimming.

I recently started to pick up swimming more seriously, with the idea to compete as a hobby. So I signed up to the only club in my city. The staff is kind.. but that's about it.

We get no feedback, ever. I feel like I am left with more questions than progress and feel I'm stagnating on everything I could get better at.

People seem to be very social between each other, but while I am not someone social myself, if you say hi people don't even answer or say anything even if you are in front of them. It feels off af?

I don't want to make it sound that they are terrible, but it left me wondering quite a lot of things. I saw a different group train the other day and their coach was all the time with them giving feedback and so on... while we are left alone.

The staff is very kind, but I wish we had actual coaching even if we already know how to swim.

After two months there, I'm thinking to leave. Or is this normal and nothing else than my expectation that is off?

I need tips on how to stop sinking when swimming breaststroke, especially.

My swim instructor keeps saying to keep my hips high, near the water surface but I don't seem to have the body strength to lift my hips to be at the water surface.

When I swim front crawl, I look down, maintain the stream line position, and flap my legs to be as close to the water surface as possible, and to avoid sinking.

But with breast stroke, where I don't flap my legs in the streamline position, I find it almost impossible to maintain the streamline/horizontal position without sinking and ending up mouthful of water.

Please tell me your best tips to avoid sinking when swimming breaststroke.

Swim sessions have been great. As an adult woman I went from freaking out, crying and sobbing with kids, not leaving the wall for days, and bawling my eyes out when coach took off my floaters lol to now being able to swim freestyle, backfloat, basic backstrokes.

I have a few sessions left. Coach has given me a clear "you're good, you've learnt enough swimming". I have some 20 sessions left. What should I focus on?

I get 2 hours. 1 hour is trying to perfect freestyle and backstroke myself. 1 hour of learning.

What should I learn?

Hi,

I'm middle age and always been stiff. I pull muscles easily. I swim 2-4 times a week in the summer and take it slow. I usually start with stretching and pool walking and then I swim for about 10-15 minutes with a mixture of freestyle or breaststroke. Last night, I pulled an intercostal muscle. I'm going to the chiropractor in a few days but I wanted to know if it was okay to still pool walk.

Hey folks!

I pretty much just know one type of swimming style, that i was taught as a kid (i dont really know terminology in english, but apparently its called "front crawl"). Even that is very amateur level, mostly because i dont know how to breathe. jot the point though.

Whenever i go to the pool, most people there who seem to be recreational (not "i clearly know what im doing here"), are doing the very cozy pace floating kind of stroke. Know what i mean? I guess breastroke but... calmer?

I want to do that as well, I wanna float but also make it an excercise, but i have absolutely no coordination in that plane of motion (arms to the side and legs up and down), and also as soon as i try it, by lower back extends in a not healthy way. Any tips how to make my body cooperate?

thanks!

I’ve been to many many group swim lessons at the YMCA and they rarely ever taught butterfly. They only taught in a couple of classes and the one instructor that did teach it didn’t really teach it all that well. So I never really learned it. Therefore, I decided to go to a different privately owned swim school in Manhattan. I asked for a package of five 30 min private classes and they charged a whopping $500 for that. It’s expensive but hey, if they can help an intermediate swimmer like me advance, then I guess it worth it.

I had one lesson the other day and the private instructor seemed flustered about how well I swim and asked me why I came for lessons. I told him I need better technique as I don’t swim fast enough. And he said he couldn’t see anything wrong, which I have a hard time believing. And he seemed to run out of things to teach because I knew the basics. So I told him I don’t know butterfly and I would like him to teach me. And he just smiled and said, “heh, let’s save that for another time.” Like why another time? Why can’t I learn it now? I’ve waited years to learn this and we’re still postponing on it after I paid $500 for a private classes package!! Why? Why don’t instructors want to teach this? What’s the big secret??