7 Swimmers We All Know! | What Kind Of Swimmer Are You?

We've all been to the pool and seen the regular characters, but which one are you? We’ve spent long enough around swimming pools and have observed all sorts of styles and habits so we're taking a lighthearted look at the different types of swimmers. You never know, you might spot yourself?
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[@gtn]

Which swimmer are you? Maybe we missed one? Let us know 🏊‍♂️

[@RoScFan]

I thought this video would be about other types of swimming like snorkelers or freedivers. Are you guys ever going to make videos about that? Yes, it's a channel about triathlon which is a race, but as ollie bridgewood said... "why are we doing it? Why not?" kzbin.info/www/bejne/qoayoZdpeJKUldE I'd love to see comparisons the way GCN makes between different types of bikes or the way you compared timetrial bikes with triathlon bikes but between swimming fast in a pool, freediving at great depths, snorkeling and looking at animals, scuba diving and so and so forth.

[@Pedreone]

Maybe The retired person. Occasionally, I would go swimming, clearly giving everything I got as an adorable old guy would come in my lane asking if he can join me. And then he swims - vertically in the water- in the middle of the lane, no way of passing him, with the speed of peach pit trying to become a tree. At least he asked nicely :p.

[@keomo]

Something is missing to the likes of "The Pool Hero" who clearly needs to work on fundamentals, but chooses to join the 'Fast' lane in multi lane public pools (lanes are speed identified) along side with the Get in and Go swimmers. Not a good mix :p

[@carolinemeade2365]

The one where they don’t like cold water and the pool water is cold so they take forever to mosey in the water.

[@fotomaxk6299]

The one who forgets something of his equipment every time

[@fotomaxk6299]

I have been a swimmer for 10+ years, including competitions. Me and the whole team had all those phases at some point. But one point lasted for ever: super, super long showers.....there is NO person on earth who can take a longer and hotter shower than a swimming team after practice.

[@Sanko1960]

I am the Zen swimmer. I love my swim sessions, and I am not a great swimmer, but I love it - warm up, drills, cool down, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, rain, shine, cold, hot. Being in the water is like being on a long run, it's bliss, even when it's hard.

[@nancypulham9493]

Ugh! I am almost always the last one to leave the change room after a practice. Been swimming for decades and still can't change fast. My heartrate is usually higher when I change than it is when I swim 🤦‍♀️

[@fredhubbard7210]

I guess I am the procrastinator... I have been a swimmer for ten years and haven't been in the pool in that whole time.

[@pooki3princess]

How?

[@fredhubbard7210]

@@pooki3princess In the ocean... lakes, even rivers.

[@pooki3princess]

@@fredhubbard7210 ahh okay.

[@danielcaldwell5940]

I'm a get in and go guy. Team practice starts 6:00 am (Lifeguards come in duty then). I dive in and start swimming at precisely 6:00. I get out before practice ends and have to be at work at a 35 minute drive away by 8:00 am. Shower quick dress for work. I brush my hair at the first stoplight I tie my shoes at the second stoplight.

[@victoriarittenger5466]

Definitely have a Lot of kit with me, I’m just really indecisive and want options! I’m paranoid of being too slow for my lane, always hanging out in the slowest available. 😅

[@jamiefuhrman403]

Entertaining video! While it was focused on personality types, would love a video on different types of swimmers as far as technique goes. I'm curious if I'm a "light kicker" or "over-rotator" etc. and not quite sure how to gauge.

[@GogglesTyresandTrainers]

I didn't see the 'I think I'm quicker than I am' swimmer, medium speed paddler happily sat in front of a line of fast lane swimmers.. like the pool version of a caravan on a winding country lane in peak holiday season 😖😖😖

[@Zordi345]

I am so the „get in and go“ guy😂 everything is optimized from arrived at the pool (the exact time school class is about to end) till checking out. 1h 15 min Maximum. 2.5km swimming, showering and already heading back to office included

[@jgduke63]

Me too, definitively the "get in and go". Once the training session done, I can move on to my next activity, which is most of the time going to the sauna and relaxing.

[@firemanhey]

Hahaha always enjoy a bit of the lighter side of triathlon. Have to say I'd be the get in and go person like Mark

[@iggalan]

When I go to the pool it means business, I get to do my session and go back home. Having children you have to optimize everything 😀 .

[@BethanyBlount]

I'm so many of these!! I try to limit my kit and be very focused as to what I'll be working on during a session, but compared to the other swimmers, I use a lot of kit. I'm usually running behind though, so to make the most of my hour and the limited pool availability, I'm also very much a getinandgo. Along the lines of the chlorine hater, I have a lengthy routine to dechlorinate myself and rehydrate my skin.

[@_Zabamund_]

You forgot my type: the "can't swim and is scared ###tless of the stuff". Rocks swim better than me.

[@carolinemeade2365]

I have forgot my swimsuit in the locker room twice already.

[@10a3asd]

haha, I'm 100% the "get in and go" swimmer

[@jobanski]

I’m like mark. I require a lot of mental preparation to actually execute a swim session that once I arrive at the gym nothing prevents me from my swim. I absolutely cannot stand the people who talk the whole time especially when all the lanes are taken! Which reminds me I need to get back in the pool!

[@HouseofRoughArtsBerlin]

The last one... The slow changer... I don't understand it either. I should have enough practice changing... And still the last one at all sports.

[@Nessunego]

I'm defintely a "get in and go". It turns out useful for training speedy transitions, too ;)

[@MrTigerlilly68]

Me and some of my clubmates are The pool lane end/ shower chatter guys. Some of the girls in the club complains that they have to wait for us outside... 😁

[@RKB-GTR61]

I personally think that you missed the person who gets in does one lap super hard then gets out.

[@trbeyond]

I’m a former college swimmer so now I’m a “you can’t stand that I only need to swim once a week” type of guy !

[@francoisrouviere]

What about the people that put on way too much perfume before a swim? The strong smell just stays right above the water line and I can sometimes taste it while breathing in...

[@nancypulham9493]

Ugh, I can definitely agree with you on that one! Sometimes it's even perfume in the locker room wafting out to the pool area 😖

[@puppiesja2556]

The get in and go 😂

[@noname-kq9ng]

At the moment i‘m a non swimmer🙈because the pools in germany are still closed

[@Chefgrlangel]

I feel called out with the moisturizer but Lmao I wait to do my legs bc I keep an extra lotion in my car, it gets all warm while I swim and it feels really nice!

[@sebastianaustein6522]

I start out as the "Getinandgo" (no time for blanks - gottagoswimming!) with a few hints of "the kitcarrier", then after swim i turn into the "showersendlessly".

[@chaetostoma5]

Get in and go kit carrier!

[@cathnz9726]

If its an out door pool on a sunny day, I tend to become a bobber even when I planned to be a get goer!

[@graycat20]

At the moment, I'll be in the "don't want to take kit off" swimmer followed by "just get in and get it done" type of swimming :) Any idea what watch Mark's wearing?

[@shmee.]

I am the Cyclist, I never go near the pool

[@sha7tab]

I started swimming only 2 years ago and definitly I am get in and go swimmer 🤣

[@BenjaminBriu]

I bring all the toys!!! And always cold

[@adventure_hannah3841]

Hahaha, I'd say I'm 80% Get-in-and-Go, 20% Zen Swimmer.

[@hurricane7800]

Depending on the day, I either mean business or might be zen. And all days I'm a chlorine hater, I have my heavy-duty after-pool lotion in addition to my normal one. But only because I have super dry skin anyway without touching chlorine!

[@fabianrares]

The kind that hates cold, everywhere os cold.. even under the shower, and the changing room and the car.. everywhere

[@nataliestephens6123]

COVID has stopped most these !

[@emmalouise9657]

I'm the serious swimmer, but I'm also known as a splasher

[@Lulu-oi9ue]

I’m not a swimmer if we had an ocean pool I’d be keen. When it comes to training I’m the type to get it done when it’s comes to exercise. I don’t like to talk or faff about.

[@shanesanigar]

I'm the get in and go swimmer and you better watch out if your in the wrong lane our you'll see some lane rage. I swam over one person who refused to move into the slow lane.

[@number1since71]

I'm a kit carrier. Can't have enough toys to play with.

[@sbyrstall]

How about me, the swimmer who knows he has to do but isn't a procrastinator. I get in, do my sets, them leave. Just want to get the whole thing over with.

[@benwoodhouse8202]

You forgot the rubbish middle aged male who has zero swim etiquette and races you whenever you try to overtake

[@davidlewis2668]

I love the smell of Chlorine in the morning......it smells like victory! Ok, maybe not since I'm and old and slow swimmer. But I try real hard.