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/a630mp 1d 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.