How To Swim Laps | 5 Beginner Mistakes to AVOID

Are you a beginner swimmer? Does swimming laps make you exhausted? Join Paige, MySwimPro's VP of Marketing, as she points out 5 beginner mistakes you should avoid, plus tips to correct these mistakes!
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[@aliensoup2420]

Hydrate - drink water. Just because you are in cool water does not mean you are not sweating - your muscles are working just as hard as running on a treadmill. I stop every 5 laps to drink.

[@lizallen9535]

I swim a modified backstroke due to hypermobile joints. That's it. The objective is not to move fast, but just to move. I have been looked down on by many for it. I can pass and be passed with the best of them. Not every swimmer trains with speed in mind.

[@myswimpro]

That's ok! Sometimes we equate "speed" with "improvement" - because the better your technique is, the more efficient you will be in the water. Hope that makes sense :)

[@EvangeliumDiSilenti]

I am afraid of this too. I'm going to start regularly swimming due to pain from scoliosis/hypermobility. There's a way that I prefer to swim and it's not the freestyle stroke with speed. I feel like im going to annoy people.

[@dipankar7771]

Useful informations. Thanks.

[@Aquaboy11]

In Australia we swim clockwise and lanes are usually marked fast, medium, slow, freestyle only or recreational. If someone taps your toes, that indicates they’re a faster swimmer, so at the end of your lap, stand to the side and let them through. Every pool has lap nazis who think they own the lane which is the equivalent of the school bully…. I shut them down quick smart and they’ll back off once you stand up to them👊

[@SeeItWithC]

Helpful!

[@sanranad]

Hi Team can you please share diff techniques or approach to swim 200, 400,800 and 1500 freestyle

[@cotefacekillah]

They did a video about it recently. Basically train by breaking it up. So if you want to swim a 200 build to it by doing 4x50 then 2x100 or somethinf

[@davidbright8978]

Sorry but the cost of the app makes me avoid it

[@myswimpro]

Hey David! Shoot us an email at [e-mail] and we'll see if we can get you a discount :)

[@SchroderRC]

I’m of the same opinion. I’ve been diagnosed with arthritis and recommended to swim. Now I love the water, but I have NO technique😂 The MySwimPro app would be the ideal app to help me. But at £19.99 a month in the UK (last time I checked) it’s beyond my means as I’m on disability payments 😢

[@chinweoparandu7790]

My classmates way of saying exactly that's how I'm going to say it EXACTLY

[@AlwaysLearning123]

How do you know when to switch up or down a lane? Eg. From slow to intermediate and vise versa

[@cotefacekillah]

Depends whose in the pool with you. If there’s a person blowing by you in your lane and the lane next to you. Maybe offer to switch so the stronger swimmers are together and the weaker ones are too.

[@tmsztrsz]

Look at people in each lane and try to assess where your swimming pace fits. There will be a time when you are too fast for beginners and too slow for faster swimmers. In such case I usually start at faster lane and give 100% for the first part of my swimming, and then move to slower lane to finish in slower pace. But I might be wrong :)

[@creneemugo94]

I never get bored swimming

[@jeffzaun1841]

If you're in England do you swim clockwise? 😊😊😊

[@LisaHahnel]

Obviously! And in Australia 🇦🇺 too 😊

[@hinnakhalid7622]

I forget to breathe while swimming because I started two years ago by training myself only underwater. This becomes very exhausting

[@mehcinbelkacem5404]

برنامج سباحة 1500 متر توقيت 100 هو 1و 40' ,200متر هو 3min ,40'

[@MultiZoobie]

So which lanes are for beginners

[@myswimpro]

It depends on your pool! Some pool will have lanes marked. Some, you just grab a lane.

[@tmsztrsz]

from my observation: usually faster swimmers tend to take middle lanes (3, 4, 5...), and slower swimmers - external lanes (1, 2, ..., 7, 8).

[@ThaStonedGardner]

Dude the lanes are for everyone to enjoy. Don't give in to the entitlement mindset of the "elite" swimmer. Pick whichever lane is open and you prefer using. If they're so good at swimming, they should be able to swim in any lane.

[@deanc2000]

I have a lap swimmer for decades now and I SWIM NON-STOP for 30 minutes. Its a great workout. Stopping to catch your breath would not make it a cardio workout. Stop saying its a mistake. Just because its not the "swim team" way to do it doesn't make it a mistake.

[@patmer2087]

What’s a lap?😅

[@cotefacekillah]

A length is down the pool. A lap is down and back.

[@ValerieHayes1]

A lap is one time across the pool. It is the same as a length.

[@aliensoup2420]

@@ValerieHayes1 A lap on a running or racing track is one full circle, ending where you started. Why would it be different in a swimming pool?

[@ValerieHayes1]

@@aliensoup2420 that is just the convention in swimming, which uses straight lanes, not a circular track.

[@ValerieHayes1]

@@aliensoup2420 that’s just the convention in swimming, which uses straight lanes, not a circular track.

[@ashleyamelia08]

Thought she said "Are you a vegan swimmer" I was immediately offended

[@bradymcdonald3591]

You would be

[@JohnnyRingo1863]

Useless on the next lap video