#SwimMing

Sorry might be silly question: I’m planning on doing some sea swimming this summer. But genuinely unsure how best to do it. I normally swim in a 25m pool and do 1250m per session. How does it work in the sea?…

Yes, yet another person being humbled by the difficulty of swimming. Wanted to mix up my cardio so I can cross train.. but swimming is much more about training than just easy cardio.. come to find out (sigh).…

Hi, I wanted to share my story ever since I came across this subreddit because swimming has meant a lot and is still very important to me. This will be quite a long read, and I’m grateful to anyone who reads until the end.…

Recently I've going to swimming classes, I thought I knew how to swim because I took classes when I was a kid but turns out all this time I've doing it wrong.…

I learned how to float and glide but as I am learning to kick I just drown. Every time I come up to breath in, My body naturally freezes and it takes time to acknowledge that I have to breath in and in that time my legs sink.…

I've just recently moved from a swim club in a small town to a club in the big city, Ive swam since I was kid and only recently I've heard when swimming a 200m during a recent training and I got reprimanded by the coach in the new club attached to the…

Now that my work schedule is stabilizing and the weather is nice enough outside to go to my outdoor pool, I'm trying to get back into swimming.…

I'm planning to learn swimming and am looking for affordable swimming classes near Kurla East or Chembur. Michael Phelps Swimming seems a bit expensive. Does anyone know how much they charge?…

Hey, so I have been swimming weekly consistently for the last 5 weeks in May and have lost 4.7kg so far. Have done 32.5km in total as of now. Some days I know I haven’t eaten enough and feel it in recovery and in my swim energy wise.…

I need to be able to swim proficiently by next year. For someone who can barely tread water is this a realistic goal? Does it depend on where I want to swim?…

One of my earliest and most vivid childhood memories is of swimming in a cool pool bounded by boulders in the middle of a river in the mountains of Bulgaria, the late-afternoon sun casting komorebi…

The 15-week-old triplets get their first swimming lesson from mum Bonita and dad Manu

i can breathe fine for the first 50 (like 4-5 breaths) but my like air need increases a LOT afterwards and i need like a breath every 2/4 strokes (unless im like racing) im like hs kid i notice i hold my breath sometimes rather than constantly exhaling…

Not that anyone here needs convincing that swimming is good for you, but I did enjoy this article from the Athletic about how swimming has helped 49ers player Fred Warner through his rehab. submitted by /u/OrangePeelsLemon [link] [comments]

Good morning community, I'm a 50y old boy who swim for 5 years now about 2 or 3 times a week. Our coach sometimes suggests a freestyle drill with one arm stick to the leg et you breath the other side. This is totally unnatural to me and I fight to do it.…

I have ran cross country since high school and commuted an hour each way to college on my bike for the last 3 years. I’ve been trying to swim train to prepare for an amateur surfing tournament, but I can only handle 3-4 laps before I’m gasping for air and…

Hello, I am not much of a swimmer. I learned swimming from my parents by going on trips to the sea and to be honest and have mostly used it to have fun on beach vacations.…

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Hi, My swimming has definitely enhanced over the past three years. I am much faster and stronger. I am wondering, did other women experience that some dresses/tops do not fit due to wider shoulders? I have this particularly beautiful dress from Guess.…

I am 27f and am just now starting my adult swim lessons. I have had a fear of water for the longest time and truly trying to get out of my comfort zone.…