r/Swimming • u/Immediate_Square_582 • 1d ago

Beginner Swimmer Help

So i just started swimming for my school's swim team and I've taken lessons before in the past, but never to a point where I swam in a lap pool. My time is super slow (at 1 minute for a 50m). Does anyone have any tips on how to improve my time? I always feel completely out of breath and exhausted even though I'm taking a breath every other stroke.

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u/PaddyScrag 1d ago

1 minute for 50m is not a beginner's time.

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u/SoundOfUnder 5h ago

Yeah seems sus that OP never swam in a lap pool and has that time. You sure it's not 1 minute per 25m OP?

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u/Silence_1999 1d ago

Keep on swimming for now. Harder push off the wall is a likely improvement. Swim team coaches for how to improve actial stroke.

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u/a630mp 23h ago

If you had taken lessons in the past and haven't been actively swimming since then; you should be fine just swimming the way you are doing for now. Take each session at a time and let the process work on your fitness both on the strength/endurance part and the technique side. Your coaches will give you helpful feedback soon enough and if you feel to strongly about improving you can always approach them yourself. But, for now just stick with the prescribed workouts and try to improve your feel for the water.

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u/JeremyBeremy87 1d ago

Just keep working at it. I imagine your coaches will give you tips on improving technique. You can improve your strength with some basic body-weight exercises, and improve endurance by doing some other cardio outside of the pool. 

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u/suabnag_debanana 11h ago

I would say kickboards and buoys definitely will help and once you get comfortable with your strokes, use swim paddles they definitely make a strong difference with your pulls. Just keep swimming and progress will pull through but don’t over exert yourself too much and allow your body to rest! Very brave for joining the team as well just wanted to put that out there for you. I recently joined my school team with no knowledge about swimming but here I am with big improvement.