Why Am I Exhausted After Swimming 50m!?
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- Are you struggling to swim further than 50 meters? Often this doesn’t make any sense - you might be able to run for 2 hours or cycle for 4 hours. You’re fit. So why does 50m of swimming leave you totally exhausted?! Well, you’re not alone. And the answer may surprise you so keep watching!
Intro 0:00
Why is swimming so hard? 0:46
The Main Reason 1:32
Holding Your Breath 3:15
Exhaling Too Much 3:55
Rushing 4:39
Too Much or Too Little 5:15
Other causes 7:00
Overkicking 7:17
Swimming Too Hard 7:52
Poor Balance & Sinking Legs 8:36
High Head & Slow Hands 9:02
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Hi could you just have a video just showing free style swimming from the side underwater. So we can see the rhythm of what it looks like over the whole length or lengths. With all the edits the flow is lost.
I see a lot of amateurs starting too fast and getting exausted fast. Start slow to warm up, fast sprint series, then cool down slow.
Great 😂😂
@annacmoo I was about to ask for exactly the same! I just would like to have a 5 minute underwater video to watch and learn. Unlike other sports like running and cycling, it's harder to to watch others doing it.
Start swimming with a Snorkling device. Gets rid of all breathing issues. Once you master the swimming technique and overcome physical and psychological hindrances, breathing automatically becomes second nature.
Two years ago, I could barely make it to the other side of the 25 meter pool. When I did get there, I clung to the edge as if it was the last life preserver on the Titanic. I watched hundreds of You Tube videos, and the ones that really helped me improve were the Ocean Walking or Ocean Crawling. Long story short, I now swim 3 days a week : 2 miles, 3 miles, and then 4 miles, with a day off in between. I have sacrificed speed for distance. I swim a very slow 50 minute mile. But at age 72 I am thrilled to be able to swim 4 miles without stopping except for some water. I breathe every two strokes and always on the left side. I do VERY LITTLE kicking. Little tips/secrets I have picked up along the way include “Barbie hands” position; thumb touching hip then shoulder each stroke; not spending the time I have left on earth to learn how to flip turn; and not being embarrassed or ashamed that I am the slowest swimmer in the pool. I focus on being streamlined and stretching/reaching arms way out front to keep my legs up. I really like my time in the pool, and especially like it when someone in the changing room asks me “how far today” and I say 4 miles, and some buffed 25year old hotshot speeder quit after 30 lengths.
Amazing 👏 👏 👏
That's awesome! What's funny is when I teach kids flutter kicking, I tell them to use Barbie legs! Long legs, very little knee bend, kick from the hip, and point your toes!
@@rcmclaugi am wondering if there was ever a “swimsuit Barbie”
This is inspiring, thank you for sharing your experience
Insecure 72 year old man
hi GTN, i am the guy who can cycle 100 km or run a marathon but struggle to swim 50 or 100m without being out of breath. I tried working on each aspect of my technique (catch, pull, timing of kick, body rotation, head level when breathing, etc) but to no effect on my distance. Then i discovered it was my breathing: not so much about exhaling when head is in the water, but more about exhaling completely in the water. To attain complete exhalation in the water, i lengthened my glide & lowered by arms cadence to give myself more time to exhale completely in the water. My pace is reduced of course, but i can now comfortably swim sets of 400-500m no problem.
Well done! Fully exhaling in the water is counterintuitive.
I've heard many say they struggle to get it done even when focusing on this aspect alone.
I assume it's a sort of survival instinct that gets in the way…
I will try that. Merci for the advide
Spot on! A year ago I could barely do 50m without a pause. Worked on my breathing (especially exhaling and switching to 2 stokes), dialed down my legwork to -10000 and it helped immensely. Still perfecting it, but 2000m in one go ain't a problem today. Now slowly starting to get into breathing every 3 strokes.
That's an amazing improvement! i do get dizzy when i go for 2 strokes though..
That’s epic! I started last Oct and needed to correct the same issues. Just pb’d 1000 in 20:35. My first swim was 200 in 17minutes
that's an impressive improvement!@@markbalaam1915
I will put in work tomorrow with the idea of SLOWING DOWN and breathing every 2 strokes. I realized that if I go too fast, my stroke / breath goes WAY off and I struggle.😅
Thank you for your "permission" to breath on just one side on 2 strokes! Switched today and was able to easily swim laps without a break, whereas just a day before I was gassed out at 1 lap doing the 3-stroke breathing. I've been swimming 3-4 days a week since Jan, but my technique and lung capacity is simply not there yet to "swim like the pros". Today was actually enjoyable and I am finally confident I can start working toward clearing that 1000m mark in one go!!
Again and again helpful tips from you guys. I cannot thank you enough!
Swiming stressed also make you tired.
Everything star when you approach the change room, dress, take shower, put the goggles, enter the pool and start to swim in a relaxed way.
Doing a few pools in a relaxing style help before alternate styles and eventually increasin the frecuenci and speed
Then you will be surprise for how long you can swim without geting tired and enjoying it.
Swim like an open water long distance swimer, in a relaxed way
If you can swim hours without getting tired, then water is your best friend
Also, don't forget your strenght resistance traineng in the gym: 3 series of dumbell exercises, shoulders and backexercises, running, pull ups
Appropiate diet and rest,
Great video. This was the exact question I’ve been asking myself recently
Watching this to get prepared for tomorrow. Going back to swimming after 11 years. Already super excited!
So glad you mentioned breathing every 2. There's such a weird dogma in swimming that you have to breathe every 3. I have always breathed every 2 unless sprinting or in competition.
At least breath to the otherside every second lap
Breathing 3 keeps you more balanced and can make you move smoother through the water as a result. However, I hate breathing 3 and don’t really do any free races require breathing 3s. So, I don’t do it
Awesome series of videos.. thank-you!
Thanks! Brilliant advice :)
In my case I know the answer with a 100% certainty: I can't swim :D
Correction! Couldn't swim 👉czcams.com/video/Rr_CnIfr5u8/video.html
@@gtn thank you guys! That's a very useful video
In that case, improve your technique and breathing, then, then, controll your anxiety and enter the pool in a relaxed way.
Mentally, consider water your best friend
Good luck on open water... 😊
Brah.
Awesome video Mark!
Albert here, a thing I started doing a while back and have stuck with it is:
During warm do 2x100m breathing every 3, and 2x100m breathing every 5. I know, it gets tough during the 5’s , but you learn to control the breathing better and best of all, when you go back to breathing every 3 or 2 it feels effortless. Couldn’t recommend to try it enough 💪🏻 happy swimming
what an amazing thing you`ve just shared
thank you, really hope it helps.
@@Andythefunkman
Great video, 4months ago I couldn't do 50m. I got a coach who specialised in Total Immersion method. I now can do 1.2km non-stop. Now working on improving speed. It was 90% technique 10% fitness. Pretty much everything you mentioned above I was doing wrong.
I’m doing total immersion classes now. I can do 50+ m, but I’m exhausted. I def am holding my breath. I guess I didn’t realize how it was impacting me till watching this. I’m not even sure I realized I was doing it.
@@monie802 I get where you are coming from as I had that barrier too. What got me past the 50m barrier is focusing on doing a very slow paced swimming emphasising on being as relaxed as possible in the water. Technique doesnt have to be perfect but what really helped is for each stroke before my breath (i breath every 2nd stoke) i go into superman then a slight pause in this position, then kick to rotation focusing on zero effort pull ie used my rotation to pull so it felt like no effort. As i do this I get both feet touch as i go into skate. I found this got my head nice,early and high to get a good easy breath in. Once I do this for 500m nonstop, I feel more relaxed in the water and either can aim to go on or then start focusing on drills like speed, improving balance etc Also for my breath I slightly breath out as enter into water then gradually exhale as rotate to take next breath. Creates a vaccum for easier intake. I use my nose to breath out and mouth breath in, my coach suggested as it gives one task for each body part to do. Finally definitely get 2 beat kick going as it again reduces fatigue. Also suggest checking out Adam OceanWalker vids which is TI based and some tips there. Good luck with the classes, TI is totally worth it!
On another swimming channel, they pointed out that you should breathe out under water through the nose as this would lead to less CO2 buildup....I followed this advice and although I can't really explain the effect myself it helps me a lot. My distances improved significantly.
This is such a great video and superb insights
I’m doing all of these problems trying to get back into swimming (just doing breaststroke) and swallowing quite a bit of water. This video spells everything out perfectly. Will take a lot of practice to sort this out though
Excellent work!
Thanks GTN... After watching yr vid, I realised I tend to overkick.. that's why I gasping every lap... Reduce my kicking.,..... wallaaàa..... I swam an hour non stop... Great adv.... Thanks.
As a 59 year old learning to swim properly, my biggest obstacle is the breathing part. Excellent video, thank you very much
What kept me back in the beginning was that unconscious sense of "drowning" (due to having your head submerged all the time in freestyle stroke). Friend of mine then took me to the 4.5m deep jumping section of the pool and we'd go diving there to get used to not being able to breathe freely. Really helped tbh
What a great friend! Always a good idea if you can get out with more experienced people, it's amazing what tricks you can learn 🙌
@@gtn very true indeed, it what helps with the motivation and I've already managed to beat him in some super sprints which hopefully will increase his motivation xD
Sometimes I do backstroke so can breath as much as want.
Have always seen myself as a pretty good swimmer and can swim front crawl long distances no problem. My last triathlon I know I was swimming much faster than normal but found out I was tired after a couple of lengths. I appreciate I was swimming faster but still this shocked me, I then saw this podcast and tried a few new methods, the main one was the breathing, i was amazed the difference and it was all down to breathing properly under water. Under fast training conditions I now breathe out almost instantly the mouth hits the water. To think all these years I have been breathing wrong. Thankyou GTN
Loven these vids❤
One point: I've always taught pupils (and myself) when swimming front crawl to bring you arms forward LOW over the water, like an oar, so the weight of the arms isn't pushing your body down into the water. The opposite for back crawl, bring you arms high up in the air whilst bringing the power arm in the water as deep as poss for maximum stroke length. Also maximising effective stroke length in the water, not slapping the water either.
Yeah, that pretty much explains my swimming technique ;)
I honestly think that is the best video explaining what I do wrong
Very informative, all the issues I have and timing is so important. I try to relax more. I saw another video and they recommend one kick per stroke which I have been using, and also look to the bottom instead of forward ?
The main reason recreational swimmers struggle with shortness of breath (at moderate aerobic swimming pace) is due to the work done relative to cardiac output.
- Lung gas exchange is never the limiting factor for swimming or any other exercise in healthy individuals.
It is always cardiac output.
- In swimming, it is the ability of the heart to deliver O2 to and remove CO2 from working muscle. The upper limbs do most of the work in swimming, and have significantly lower blood flow rate than lower limbs, due to narrower arteries. Therefore, lactic acid fatigue can occur earlier than for exercise based more so on lower limbs (running, cycling).
- Swimming work increases with drag. Efficient swimmers typically have low body mass and surface area i.e. they are not over weight.
- Efficient swimmers have longer limbs, and less mass in their pelvis and lower limbs. Therefore their lower body creates less resistance through the water.
- Much is written about efficient swimmers having bigger chests, and this provides higher gas exchange. This is a furphy. Bigger chests typically mean one does not have to breathe as deep to achieve adequate gas exchange. This in turn puts less pressure on the heart when it is trying to fill chambers with blood.
So shortness of breath in swimming relative to other sports is due to
- body drag, arterial flow to swimming muscles, cardiac output, and chest volume (inspiration's compression of the heart).
It sounds strongly scientifically, but I do agreee with all of those statements so much! You have to be aware of that factors of efficient swimming. I've struggled for more than 1 year with longer swims, until I realised how much breathng pattern and technique important is. Even my coach didnt recognize my problem properly before I did it.
Mis dos peores errores: patear demasiado e inhalar superficialmente, ahora lo entiendo. ¡gracias! Excelentes tips!
Yes. that's my problem too. Superficial breathing. ie not breathing out enough which ends up with me only exchanging the air at the top of my lungs. A bit like an iceberg really. If my lungs are like an iceberg I only exchange the air equivalent to the ice above the water. I guess I am still scared of almost emptying my lungs. I am trying to improve this.
Can't wait to get back into the pool and put this into action.
THANK YOU! I easily run 10-20km, go 1-2h on the bike fast yet my swim is one big torture... these tips will help a LOT! I felt this video was for me personally LOL
I have been playing around with breathing technique. I bilateral breath and able to manage a long swim 1500 - 2000 meters. I do notice when I start getting tired though, I will switch to right side only for a few hundred meters then switch back. It changes things when I get in the lake. I have to add in the sighting stroke with no breath for that stroke and it messes with my rhythm. In one year I have gone from 2:45 per hundred to 2:25. Modest gains.
I am Still facing this despite being swimming for more than a year now. I get anxiety as I see my other group mates older than me doing much better than me. Plus my breathing technique, I guess. It's something really needs to be practised almost regularly.
I started with swimming once a week some months ago. With some breaks because of holidays etc. I now swim 1km in one go and 25 minutes. But my technique is crap. Also I just do breast swimming as with free style I can’t even manage breathing. Will see if I can develop better technique with time. I for now decided to swim before work (instead of after work) in the morning and at least at every working day. I think for the start training the daily habit is the most important.
Love this video clip, so helpful , thanks heaps
I can't say that I know of any one who breaths too frequently... But all things are possible. If you watch the elite swimmers, more so with distance swimmers, the men all breath on every other stroke. The women breath on a 2, 2, 3 pattern, most of the time. Ariarne Titmus breaths on the 2, 2, 3 pattern, and Katie Ledecky breaths on an every other stroke pattern. The thing with swimming, if you are going into oxygen debt by not breathing enough, you will never catch up to that debt.
I would also consider figuring your optimal stroke rate to be equally important. And this, like sweat rates can be highly variable. Lowest and longest possible stroke count is not always the best one, as well as fastest and shortest stroke rate. I don't know of any way to figure out what individual optimal stroke rate is, other than by playing around with it a lot. I do know that you can swim too slow to be efficient. Finding that middle ground is huge!
i give up train 3 hrs a day boxing aged 61_ was a top cyclist runner cnt swim 25 metres i sink cnt breath _ but now paying the price for crazy punishment my body has taken..well going to give swimming a proper go thanks for great video. yes im out of breath.
This video couldn't have been timed better. I have started training for my first half-ironman, and I have always been in good shape for biking and running, but swimming is just like a roadblock.
I can't implement anything from my strength training, biking or running and it frustrates me every time I am done with my swimming session because I don't feel any progress.
At the moment I can only do 25 meters and I am out of breath like I ran a 100 m sprint. I really hope I can improve my swimming >.
We’re on the same boat, man 😅
That's crazy! January 1st, I signed up for my first 70.3 IM too! I'm doing the Galveston, Texas on 4/7/2024. The swim is my struggle..I'm a big guy but feel like I'm making good progress on the run and bike though...the swim is my fear
Great video! I am new to swimming and noticed I have several of the breathing issues AND over-kicking! ( I’m sure I also have some balance issues )
Do you have a recommendation on the best sequence of drilling to improve? I’ve been working on each part of the stroke but wonder if I focus more on one aspect will the others improve also.
First lap is always breathless after a long absence from swimming. After many more sessions it gets better and becomes like meditation, concentrating on the breathing and trying to remember how many laps I have done.
Those goggles are pretty sweet! What brand/model are they?
Haha this is me. I’ve started learning to swim and I’m getting beat by tons of people at the pool, which was confusing and humbling given my aerobic background (sub 15 5Ker).
I am learning to swim for real. I swam for fun as a kid but not formally taught. Now, decades later I want to learn for real after having watched my kids, who are competitors.
Great timing, I was just wondering about this when coming back from the pool yesterday evening!
And I can confirm my breathing to be the main problem. I am now solely focusing on getting my breathing right before moving on to anything else.
Getting the basics down is a must! 🙌 Great to hear that you are taking your time to master the little things!
Hi. How are you progressing? I’m simply not getting it right
Good video, I have joined a gym with a swimming pool and try a swim for 45 minutes solid, but are having problems doing so. I have tried breathing every 2, 3, 4 and 5 strokes. I find you can swim faster with 5 strokes between breathes, but I don’t seem to go any more than 100 metres to I have to stop. While breathing every 2 strokes gives you a sore neck.
Your head should naturally be in position for taking a breath if you add a slight rotation whenever you do the stroke
Wow, what a beautiful pool 😍 where is it?
I pretty much encounter the same issue. I get quickly out of breath when swimming for 25/50 meters. This seems to be worse when I first start swimming because, after a while, I get "enough flow" that swimming actually gets easier and I am much better when it comes to breathing. I also try to force myself into bilateral breathing.
It's all about balance, sounds like you are nailing it - Do you enjoy our swim content?
@@gtn yup, yup !
I can swim well but prone to coughing so I was curious what you would cover. I think I may not let enough air out.. will try
I have a question: so I changed my swimming/breathing technique a couple years ago when I watched a GTN video that discussed the same thing.
I changed the frequency of my breathes to every 2 stokes (using one predominant arm and then switching each lap for balance) I had previously been bilateral breathing and found I couldn’t get faster.
This new breathing technique worked for me, I got faster but then as always there was the plateau, so I took a lesson recently.
I had a session with a swim teacher and she said my issue was that I was breathing too often and that breathing every 2 strokes makes you slower because your head has to come out of the water more often and that slows you down.
So now I am confused 😅
I feel with swimming I am always fighting with technique and different opinions on how to best swim for speed.
I am happy with breathing every 2 stokes when I sprint (I need that extra air) but I just can’t seem to get faster… the endless battle continues 😂
I have the same issue.. @gtn I hope you can chime in here
May I ask what googles do you wear on video?
Great video, I always enjoy your swimming tips! My question is how to recover after, let's say, 500m swim with a less perfect breathing towards the end (e.g. due to wind or waves showing up) having in mind that there is still another 500m to go? It's often that I go off my breathing plan when I need to start swimming back, so the wave direction changes as well.. Shall I swim slower to recover or there is no way to recover at all once there is too much CO2 in?
try switching to breaststroke for a bit to recover your breath if rules allow it. you'll be a bit slower but you can dial in the glide phase according to your breathing needs easier
You actually missed a very important point. The one that helped me and I found it helped a lot of other people around me. *Inhaling too much air.*
This is especially true for beginners that got the basic grasp of swimming technique but out of fear of not having enough air simply inhale as every breath is their last.
*How to fix this?* It helps a lot to simply try and *breathe only as much air as you need until your next stroke + 5% extra for safe margin.*
I found that this helps and it has put me swimming from 50m up to 100m, but it is not quite enough, even those 5% over time build up CO2 by having extra air you aren't using around.
*So what's the catch?* It's very unintuitive, but you need to *swallow the extra air every few strokes while you are underwater.* Every swimmer occasionally does this, but they can rarely realize it.
"I tried but it's hard, I can't do it." *How do I do it?* The answer is to *push yourself, when you are tired and gasping for air, swim some more and eventually it will just click.*
This has propelled me *from getting tired after 100m to swimming over 1km in the span of just a few days.* Hope it helps.
P.S. Side effect of this is that you will burp a bit after your swimming session.
25! I consider this an advanced swimming video 😂
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Yepp. On 3 stroke I start exhale on stroke 2. This way it became much more relaxing.
Ha! Well, I can't run for 2 hours (2 minutes, maybe, but then I have a bad back) or cycle for 4 hours (I could probably do a leisurely ride around the neighbourhood, if I avoid the hills). So I'm very glad to find even fitter people find 50m of swimming rather tiring :P
But yeah, the last time tried swimming I realised that my breathing really needed some work. Also my legs, arms, heart, lungs and, y'know, every other part of my flabby, broken body.
So hamdsome❤
Hey i want to get Into Swimming… how should i Start? My breathing is definitly something to work on - But distance, laps etc?
I can swim. I can swim breaststroke a couple thousand metres... But I can't do more than 50m front crawl... And my breaststroke is much much much faster than my front crawl... I did my first triathlon last year and was about was out of the water ahead of 60% of people, I was ahead of 80% on bike and run, so the swim let me down... But not nearly as badly as I expected. However I breath in front crawl I end up drinking some water with ever breath. By 40-50m I am drowning.
In order to use the air filled lungs as buoy to keep me and especially my legs up, I tended to hold my breath longer and exhaled more sharply before i turned the head to inhale. I was still exhausted after 50m but had ghe impression that it worked much better than before. Is it a bad strategy, though?
I run marathons and will do my first triathlon in June. Time to learn swimming properly 😀
Good video but I’ve heard conflicting advice on the amount of exhalation. You suggest full emptying of the lungs. I’ve seen other long distance coaches suggest that this leads to loss of buoyancy, sinking legs and depending on your stroke rate an inability to fully inflate the lungs again in the time available. So calm partial exhalation all the time. Which is best?
Why not try both and see what works for you? Everybody is different, find your style and settle in 🙌
In my opinion lungs full of air means upper body is raised in the water leading to legs falling and more drag. Plus if your lungs are nearly always full you are only partially exchanging the air.
yo so i always find that my arms run out of strength to keep form and lift out the water around the last 20-25~ meters of the 50m length, is that caused by a breathing issue or is it simply a lack of arm strength? because i practice in a 25m pool most of the time and i can do 25m perfectly fine.
If for any reason you are losing strength to keep form over 50m - which is not a long distance at all, you're swimming too hard and likely breathing inefficiently. Lock your form and breathing in on swimming slow. Repeat that for weeks, then start to add tempo to it, and you will get faster and not be tired anymore.
I’m struggling to swim 25 meter lol thanks for the video
Nice glasses, link?
I struggle to even do 50 metres, but before i was struggling with 25 metres so I am somehow getting better. Here is the thing, I didnt even know you are supposed to exhale. I will try that tomorrow :)
I come across an issue and GTN makes a video about it within few days, are you guys reading my mind 😂
Im training for my first triathlon in june. Olympic triathlon. I can do the 1500m swim in 49 mins, the cutoff is 55 mins.
The only probelm i have is im so tired when im swimmimg. I take so many breaks. Im still getting in under the cutoff time but do i just keep doing 1500m sessions, or do i add easier swim sessions ?? Currently doing 2 sessions a week
Do gentle swimming for lengths, where you feel like you're floating in water when you swim. Minimize exertion to only enough to propel you ahead in a very smooth streamline pace. Aside from this, eat plenty of calories. There's a reason Phelps could eat 11,000 calories during competitions.
I have this problem but I've been swimming every 4 stroke my body is tuned to every 4 stroke style what to do
yes i still remember the form but havent swam competitively in a decade. pretty much as helpless as the rest of the lots
I swam 2 times around the whole pool and when i came home me left arm right down to my hands is paining idk if its bc i swam after 3 years plus i never used to get any body pain before
I swim decent but often panic due to breathing issue, sometimes breathing is smooth ...planning to get fins so can work on upper stroke. Also breath every stroke i want to get rid of it too.
I am a very slow freestyle swimmer. I recognize it takes quite a muscular effort to pull the body through the water, and I guess this is currently the limiting factor: I need to go slow, else I am exhaused after 100m. Are there things you would say I should be capable to do with my arms? And ... I guess it is hard if you haven't trained your upper body for year .. but are there exercises to get more muscular strength? I fear that just keeping on swimming slow will not result in any progress.
I have the same problem. I am trying to overcome it by using calisthenics. specifically pull ups, dips, inverted rows and push ups. Early days yet but I feel I am making progress. But just like swimming you have to go easy with calisthenics when first starting otherwise you will end up messing up your joints. Tendons and ligaments take longer to improve than do muscles. So do many sets of low reps with breaks in between rather than a few sets with maximum reps. In other words "just one more rep" might be good for bodybuilding but is definitely not good for calisthenics. Also use a band when starting pull ups.
I am doing breaststroke as a part of my weightloss jurney. I am a little bit sad because when I started (October 2023) my pace was 5:05/100m, now it is 4:13/100m but with all effort :D I saw yesterday that people make 1000m in 15min.. I can make it in 45 mins :( But never back down.
I notice in the clips some of the swimmers mouths are still open going into the water after breathing, any reason for this?
I believe that breathing is my #1 problem and it causes my stroke and other things to fall apart as a result.
The 20m pool i use is closing for 7 for a complete remodel. I may have to use a long course pool. I have never done a long course. I hope i survive.
Today I just started putting my head deeper in and knocked out 500m without stopping whereas 50-100m needed at least a 10second break
Thanks. Was the improvement because of more balance and less drag? When I’m conscious to swim as if I’m climbing down into the water which lifts my lower body to the surface I struggle to come out for breaths
I used to compete as a kid and did 400m to 800m freestyle and got 2 silvers for both. I am now 27 yrs old, went back to the pool yesterday for the first time in 15 years and i could barely do 75m :/
When I get into it I take a breath either on 3 stroke when starting or 5th/7th stroke. Breathing too frequently is such a thing too.
hahahaha
Someone got too close to the wall on a flip turn and grazed their nose !
I'm sorry, but it distracted me for the entire video.
Pretty much all in my case
Mark made this video exclusively for me and I can't be persuaded otherwise! 😅😔
i can swim over a km easiely with no break.
for sure not in in top speed but ich get it under 40 minutes.
I can do 1 lap but I have to stop multiple times bc I always run out of breath and after I do 1 lap I just feel like my heart is pounding almost like I just ran a marathon and can’t catch my breath
Wow, interesting. Isn't what I needed, I can swim til after some hours my joints hurt and longer, but might help with questions I get at the pool. The most errors I see in swimming is not knowing how to glide, especially with swimmers using breast stroke.
Now what I need is the equivalent video for running. Why can I swim for hours but can only run for what... 2 min? Maybe you already have one, need to check your channel.
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i really struggle with freestyle although i can swim quite goot of 30 min breaststroke
what about back stroke - can swim further but not that much
Oh my goodness, i do the 4 breathing mistakes 😂
For me the issue was actually swimming too slow, so it's good to be relax but not too relaxed as you basically sink when trying to breath in.
A 50m swim can be totally exhausting for even an elite level swimmer. If doubtful try swimming as fast as possible (as if your life depended on it) for 50m taking just one or two breaths and see what it is like making it back to the wall for a 100 without reaching for the lane line.
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I know why I get exausted so quickly.... I need to lose over 70lbs...
Great sport for intuitive autodidacts.
The water is like a biofeedback device.
I can imagine that that’s the case because I’ve been trying for so long and yet 😢 Some said maybe I should try yoga as well to have a better feel of body balance etc
It's the other way around for me. I can easily swim for at least 45 minutes non stop (doing around 1500 m in that time) but I'm unable to run for 20 minutes without slowing down to a walk :P
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Thank you so much! I had lessons as a kid, went to leisure pools frequently, scuba dived when I was older, so I was never uncomfortable in water but also never swam lengths for fitness. So when I had some shin splints from running and was trying other things I was perplexed at being able to run for hours but couldn't swim more than 2-3 lengths without stopping (and only single lengths thereafter, gasping for air at each end). I diligently went 2-3 times per week for several months doing 10 laps each visit with no improvement. Got a lesson but the coach ignored everything I'd told him and just kept repeating "keep going, keep going, keep going" - which is useless, clearly I'd already tried that myself over the past months and I just ended up drinking water, coughing & spluttering in front of him. I was completely put off by that & never went back. I knew myself it had to be technique which is why I sought lessons, but it was just a shitty experience and totally put me off. That was 15-20 years ago and I'm getting older, the knees don't recover from long bush runs like they used to, maybe it's time I tried again. All your advice is much appreciated.
It's worth a try, i find myself in the same situation. O was at the mountain with, using a new pair of boots and got blisters. I love to run, but i can't atm. So i go swim. Not an expert but i do lenghts: 1km. But i go slow as my technique is not on point. Some of the advice seeems key. The mot important for me are to keep the head down, kick less and maybe breathe more.
Good luck to you!
What drives me crazy is that while I can swim freestyle, backstroke or breaststroke for a long time even with good pace, I get exhausted very quickly swimming butterfly. After 50 m my style start falling apart and I get really tired.
that's like comparing hiking and sprinting.
I Personally swim for relaxation so I do breas and can go for hour without even stopping. I'm not expecting to be able to do a butterfly style the same way.
is there something which is NOT a problem?
Has he got a spot on the end of his nose or is it my screen?
Are you tired after 50m ? Try to slowly develop your 2 beat kick it has helped me tremendously.