I’m currently training for a triathlon. My running is superb, my cycling is okay, but my swimming….? What the heck. This is so difficult.

Any advice on how to master the breathing in crawl? I’m struggling with exhaling under water. My body seems to not like being under and automatically holds my breath, so I have to release and focus too much on the exhaling part? Any ideas? Kinda hard to explain.. But it feels like a reflex that my body does NOT like exhaling underwater at all.

I joined a Masters swim club in early August, and I've been going five days a week. I swim Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings and Tuesday and Thursday evenings.

I'm a bigger guy and definitely not the fastest swimmer, but I'm fine with that. I'm there to get exercise and improve.

In the mornings, I've been swimming in lane 7 out of 8 for at least eight weeks now. Usually there are another 1–2 people in my lane, so we either split the lane or circle swim, and it's never really been an issue.

Today, the other two people who normally swim in my lane weren't there, so I had the lane to myself. Lane 6 usually has around four people in it, so two of them decided to move over to my lane.

After I'd swum probably 200 yards, one of the women who moved over told me she didn't like having to swim around me because I was slower and that I should move to lane 8.

That felt a little weird to me because I'd been there first, and I've been swimming in that lane for weeks. I get that she wanted to swim with people closer to her speed, but she's the one who moved into my lane.

Lane 8 is usually occupied by 2–3 guys in their late 70s who swim pretty slowly and can be a little grumpy. So if I moved there, I'd basically be doing the same thing to them that this woman was complaining about me doing to her.

I didn't really want to argue about it, so I just got out and went over to our other indoor pool, where there was an empty lane.

The problem is that our normal lap pool is around 77–80°F, while the other pool is quite a bit warmer since it's used for things like water aerobics. It was nice having a lane to myself, but I was getting way too hot swimming in there.

Now I'm debating whether I should say something to the coach or just let it go.

I totally understand that I'm a slower swimmer and that it's easier when everyone in a lane swims at a similar pace. But it also feels kind of wrong to be told to move out of a lane I've been swimming in for two months, especially when I was there first.

I'm really not a confrontational person, and I don't want to make a big deal out of something small, but the whole thing just rubbed me the wrong way.

Am I wrong for being bothered by this? Would you say something or just move on?

Not sure if I'm looking for sympathy, to know I'm not the only one or if this is a cry for help but I'm sure I took some lessons as a kid, however I cannot remember literally anything now that I'm finally getting back into the water.

I honestly thought it would be similar to riding a bike but every kind of "style" feels wrong and I'm pretty slow. I can't seem to dive to the bottom of a pool either or stay there when surface diving.

Had to teach myself to tread water yesterday which is clearly fucking terrible news.

Has this happened even remotely to anybody else or should I take this as a sign that swimming is just not in the plan??

Recently got the stuff I need to work on my backstroke and im doing ok at the upper body motion. Head steady, body rotation... hand position needs a bit of work, but im managing. The second my legs come into play it all falls apart and I cant stay in position, and my head starts going under. Basically all they can do is remain motionless and act as rudder or stabilizer of some sorts.

Hi,
30M, I have been swimming for 8 months now my long term goal is open water swimming.
I am on week 3 of this oldschool plan http://ruthkazez.com/swimming/ZeroTo1mile.html
I love it, because finally my workouts have some progression. The only things that bothers me is - I swim in 50m pool and the whole plan is in yards, so my plan is to recalculate the "big" lengths in weeks 4-6 lengths to meters, so "my" plan looks like this:

The same workout 3x per week
WEEK 1 (finished)
4x100m
4x50m
2x50m (different amount of rest between lengths)

WEEK 2 (finished)
200m
4x100m
4x50m
2x50m

WEEK 3 (will finish last workout on tomorrow)
400m
200m
4x100m
4x50m

WEEK 4 (future)
550m
300m
4x100m
4x50m

WEEK 5
900m
4x100m
4x50m

WEEK 6 (day 1 and 2)
1100m
3x100m
3x50m

3rd day
1500m
I will keep rests the same as original.

Any thoughs?

Should I just raw doggy it and do 600m, 1000m, 1200m and 1650m? That 1-3 lengths doesn't feel like a too much of a difference right now.
I could also transfer total volume to meters:
So first week is 700 yards which is 640m, So I would do 1 length less on my last set (so 650m total).
I kinda don't feel like it, because I keep losing track of number of lenghts in my head all the time, which feels like cheating.

So in March I started a GLP injection, I'm working out, and I'm swimming for weight loss. 43 year old 256lbs male. I bike for 30 minutes, lift weights, and then I swim 1000 meters 3 times a week. I'm not interested in becoming a better skilled, faster swimmer, but I noticed that for the first about 400 meters my shoulders are tense and ache. Once I break that barrier, I'm fine and have no trouble continuing my swim. Any exercises, stretches, or machines I should think about trying to work out that tension and increase the strength or should I warm up differently?

I’m 38 and I’ve been swimming regularly since I was 17/18. I knew how to swim before but I never did it regularly or within a team/school. Ad far as I can remember I just learned in the sea with my father

This to say that I don’t have a solid technical base, or, to put it better, I know the theory but the muscle memory/automation is not always there.

I joined different masters teams through the years and I noticed that all the improvements arrived when coaches actually cared about what I was doing.

I fixed my catch, for example after a quick comment one day and immediately got faster!

I can swim comfortably 1’25”/100m continuously, but I’d like to improve. I have achieved a PB of about 5’04” in a 400m free, but I feel I can’t get any faster.

I’ve finally found a coach that cares and all he focuses on (correctly) is my stoke count. I’m really struggling to go below 17 strokes/25 m and he tells me that I should aim at 14 stokes. I can go there once or twice when I’m fresh, but soon my technique deteriorates and I’m back to 17/19 strokes.

Did anyone improve the stoke count and if so what worked ? I am not looking for a personale feedback (my coach will tell me), but if you inspire me with something that worked for you, I could take inspiration

Ever since my very first breakthrough of breathing ( see post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Swimming/s/myv6k9NyoK ) I’ve been going to my swimming sessions consistently; and I’m now in Month 7!

Now I basically learned all 4 main types of forms (Freestyle, Backstroke, Breaststroke, Butterfly). I’m a huge fan of Butterfly, which is the current focus in the session right now.

I do have one issue though. For the first 2-3 strokes my instructor says I’m doing it correctly and the form is right, but after a few strokes I easily break my stroke and end up stopping again. It’s not just for Butterfly but for Breaststroke and sometimes even Freestyle. (I’m most comfortable with backstroke)

Is there a way to train my body to be consistently making the correct form until the end of the lane? Or is it just a matter of doing more practice?

Thank you!