Just keep swimming...

God. I've just started my swimming... it's pathetic, i'm like a drowning dog. I'm so grateful the pool guard at our Virgin Active wasn't watching me. They have a 'Slow lane' I think they should create a new one for my sole use. Think I might just jump in the Jacuzzi next gym session. Weird thing is, 25 years ago (at high school), I got most of those badges you sew on your swimming trunks: 800m, 1500m, then there was the Bronze badge, Silver... Does anyone else remember doing those? We had to wear our Pajamas in the pool, take them off, make one of those floating things with the shirt, swim so far under the water (avoiding the imaginary oil slick). Oh the good old days.

The most swimming I get is whenever I come out of my kayak. My gym has a pool,and I really want to use it this year. I don't know anything about swimming aside from the basics though. :embarassed:

Thank you Macstraw, I really find things like this difficult (it's the same learning to drive), but I love swimming.

About simplicity, breaststoke was the same. For months I struggled and couldn't do it and then one day I suddenly could and very effortlessly and I wondered what I'd been doing before.

I thought being knackered after trying to propel myself along with a kickboard in front of me was just me!

Oh no, the kickboard will wipe anybody out quickly.....

You just kept at your breaststroke kick & your body naturally fine-tuned it until it felt right. The same thing will happen with the other kicks, just keep working at it. Just pick 1 thing to work on at a time & don't clutter your mind. For example, work solely on pointing the toes back toward the wall you left until it feels natural. Once that happens concentrate on the kick coming from the hip. Once that happens concentrate on the fluttering of the feet. It doesn't matter what order, just work 1 at a time until it feels right.....

Many, many thanks, I will try the foot steps. :happy:

I usually swim three or four times a week for an hour and a half at a time;

laps in the pool twice a week before weightlifting, (usually its 40 minutes freestyle, 10 minutes butterfly, 30 minutes freestyle, then 10 minutes sprints) and the other days I do about two miles of ocean swimming. once a month I up one of the ocean swims to four miles. lucky to live by the beach!
training for Alcatraz and Catalina in june.

Then jump back in!!!!!!!!!!! :-)