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Swimming is all about technique to reduce drag. Even if you’re very fit and have good cardio you will gas out quickly without it. Take a few lessons or watch videos.
t. Taught myself freestyle and got better at it

how tf does one swim freestyle without water flowing into your lungs when you try to breath in

>>77195922
slow down. make sure you're pointing your toes out directly behind you and kicking from the hips. like the other anon said, rotate on a horizontal axis. you could try use those float things for your knees and focus only only arms or use a kickboard and only focus on kicking. breathing is all about a smooth rhythm left right left breath right side, right left right breath left side. like anything our bodies are lazy as fuck and will eventually find the easiest possible way of doing something. stick at it and you'll be able to continuously swim in no time.

>>77196074
you could also try some pyramid type training 25, 50, 100, 150, 200, 150, 100, 50, 25 (or similar) with a 10 or 20 second break in between sets. some ex-swimfag anons advised that in the last swim thread. usually i'd just bang out 2.5km or more straight because I love it, but I the swimfag pyramid anons method is actually pretty good and I am enjoying it.

>>77196076
lastly with swimming you just have to accept the moggings. old cunts, fat cunts, manlets, lanklets, doesn't matter. there will always be some onewho will absolutely mog you. every saturday morning when I swim the highschool swim club is there. every saturday morning I get obliterated by 14 year old boys and girls that aren't even trying.

There's likely some movement or positioning error you have that produces huge drag. Maybe you're not gliding enough. Also the CO2 in your lung builds up if you don't breathe properly, and that exhausts extremely fast.

>>77195922
started swimming a month ago, making some real progress. I can now swim with four strokes per breath consistently, and can swim with 6 strokes per breath for over 50m.

I started struggling with 50m at a time, yesterday i swam 1.5km in 150m sets.

i have really improved my technique, I'm much smoother now, focussing on technique, breathing, and ignoring the time has made me faster.

>>77195922
You just got to do it more and you will dial in the rhythm eventually and once you get the rhythm you feel like a fish slicing through the water it’s fucking great.

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>>77196013
Separate from the rotating that guy said, if you are moving at a decent speed the wake of your head should create a little pocket of air at mouth level

>>77196749
good work mole

As a competitive swimmer for over a decade in my youth, I never want to set foot in a pool again unless it's to drown a jew.

>>77195922
slow down, work on your cardiovascular fitness, don't get psyched out when you swim and start panicking and raise your heart rate. Also watch some videos and work on that form and technique to minimize drag like other posts mention

>>77196768
This. It's called getting "feel" for the water. If you take time off after gaining this sensation, it will go away and you'll be back to feeling like your body is fighting the water, not moving through it efficiently and with power.

>>77196013
You just rotate your head to inhale every x strokes, typically 3. I took swimming lessons in my childhood so it seems obvious to me, don't think there's much more to explain.

>things that produce huge drag and make you slow
Body hair and huge swimming trunks

>>77195922
>i weigh 400lbs and can lift garbage bins filled with cement
>why can't i swim?
fitness isn't what you think it is

>>77195922
Dear swimchads, why does my right lat activate all the way down but not my left when I’m doing crawl? I can’t really activate it all the way down even when I’m out of the water. Any advice? Many thanks in advance.

>>77195922
>think I'm pretty fit
You simply aren't conditioned for swimming. You:
1. Don't have the neurological connections to swim efficiently
2. Your body position is probably fucked up because of your weight distribution
3. Your lung capacity is low
4. Most importantly your lactate threshold for the muscles involved is very low
The only way to get better is lots and lots of swimming hard. Look up swimming workouts. Intervals are the best way to increase lactate threshold.

>>77198335
You're either dropping your elbow right after the catch or you're doing a wavy stroke through the water. Rotate into the catch so that your shoulder is near your chin and pull straight back with your forearm.

>>77197526
I literally just stopped after college. I haven't swam a single lap since my last meet over a decade ago.

>>77195922
how many breaths between strokes?

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>>77199645
You're supposed to count?

>>77199645
6 or 7

>>77196013
Shit ton of practice

when you swim in water you’re swimming other people’s asshole vagina and dick sweat.

>>77199868
Smelling sweat or shit is actually having sweat particles in your nose. At least in the water it gets washed away outright

>>77195922
fat old ladies buoyancy maxxed. they only need to deal with moving forward

>>77196013
include separate breathing drills in your training. when doing so refocus on doing good form rather than finishing the lane. just do a couple of strokes and then start again

>>77195922
swimming is a technichal sport. Form is everything. Doesnt matter if you got muscles or not

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Help, how do I fix this? No matter what I do my hair does this now...

>>77195922
Once you can do 4 strokes between breaths, switch to two strokes. 4 strokes and up is a breahing exercise, you build up oxygen debt.

>>77195922
It's all technique and drills. Strength and distance come after.

I decided to learn how to swim last summer and it took me about 4 months of just trying different things out in a lake till i was really conferrable and could maintain a 1km front crawl without stopping.
once you get your breathing down, a kick that doesn't waste all your energy and a good pull that doesn't fuck up your shoulders you can go forever.

i have gotten up to 200m freestyle without stopping, how far do i take it?

150m Breast stroke
200m Freestyle
200m Freestyle
150m Breast stroke
150m Freestyle
150m Freestyle
150m Breast stroke
150m Freestyle
150m Freestyle

50m Breast Stroke
50m freestyle 6 strokes per breath
50m freestyle 6 strokes per breath

might do 100 x2 breast stroke in between each freestyle instead of 150m every two

>>77203731
you can easily do a 500m
you can even do a 1k comfortably
and if you want to really surprise yourself for shits and giggles, you could even do a 1.5k
you just have to apply yourself and do it

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any tips for starting out swimming? i've never really been good at it even though I got lessons. is it like running where i just have to be okay being really really slow and not being able to do a whole lot at first?

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>>77201672
this should help!

>>77195922
I went swimming today at the local pool for the first time in 30ish years. How am I supposed to deal with the female highschool swim team showing up to practice because the school is too poor to afford a pool?

Swimming is fucking brutal, tried it a while back after some time not doing it and it was really tough.

Swimming is fucking brutal, tried it a while back after some time not doing it and it was really tough.

Swimming is fucking brutal, tried it a while back after some time not doing it and it was really tough.

>>77205868
just enjoy the view ;)

>>77195922
One breath every three strokes at a steady state isn’t half bad
just keep at it
>>77199868
“Water? Never drink the stuff. Fish fuck in it.”

>>77205712
Yeah just take it slow, try to set a goal like getting to 500m in under an hour your first week. Then 1km in the same time frame and so on. When you start to get 2km an hour I would recommend you start buying equipment and the like since swimming will probably be too easy for you at that point without it. But that is still ways off so my best advice is just consistently start going 3 days minimum a week and keep at it. Also technique does matter a lot so I would recommend maybe booking 2 weeks worth of classes to get the fundamentals right.