Swim without getting tired 

Don't kick to keep your legs afloat. Distance swimming isn't the same as sprinting. It's like comparing jogging to 100m track.

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Pro Tip: Look at this image at 1:05. This is how to swim WRONG. While going forward, the whole body becomes a source of resistance, due to the angle. The leg kick is actually one of the least effective means of propulsion. If you just do leg kicks, you could tire out before reaching the other side of the pool. It is extremely inefficient for propulsion. Don't cater to it. That said, the leg kick is VERY efficient for raising the legs. You can do a lot of the leg kick at the hips. Keep your legs STRAIGHT not bent at the knees. You only want to kick your legs enough that your body straightens out like a bullet when you swim. No more than that unless you're definitely in sight of the finish line and have no concern at all for conserving energy. The arm stroke is many times more efficient for propulsion than the leg kick. Not even close. All your real work is done by the arms. Kick with your legs just enough to straighten out, and then use your arms to move like a rocket. Maybe a 10/90 or 5/95 split as far as effort. The effort you save in the legs can then be used for your arms and you will blast past everyone. Most to least efficient propulsion: 1. Kicking off the wall or bottom of pool. 2. Pulling on a rope, such as the divider rope in the pool. 3. Using flippers. 4. Arm strokes. 5. Leg kicks. 6. Flapping around like Patrick Duffy in "Man From Atlantis". This does next to nothing. For the kind of swimming described in this video, use MINIMAL leg kicks (just enough to keep your body horizontal) and maximal arm strokes. This is how to win. Very very easy to do, even for beginners. The way to find the sweet spot is to kick harder when moving forward (like they normally teach you) and then reduce the effort gradually until you feel your legs drooping down at an angle. This causes drag and you will lose speed fast. Kick just a little harder than that and you have found the sweet spot. You will be able to go much farther because you're not burning oxygen at the same rate as before. You're not draining body energy as fast. You can therefore maintain a high speed for a very long time and sail right past your competitors. Remember, you can use your hips and torso to "flick" your legs using even less effort. Utilize the torso rotation used to keep the stroke arm down, and let that "flow" down to your legs, kept stiff at the knees. I don't lose races in the pool. Younger stronger guys are confused every time.

Swimming helps with scoliosis?

Swimming is not extreme survival lol its a fun activity to do in summer and can save you in some RARE cases

@@shiparelli3448 _What I mean by extreme is what we don't do everyday that requires more skills, like traveling through water, unlike finding food & shelter, which are the most common & easiest survival skills. And I don't think it is rare anymore, since we are almost always surrounded by water [like in fishing, transportation, vacation, sports, where accidents can happen anytime]_

So true

​@@shiparelli3448 do reaserch how many people and mainly kids dies just because of drowning, it is best if it's part of school

Makes sense if you live in bikini bottom

Jayquellin? Deenice?

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They were both sent to O’ Shag Hennessy’s office for suspicion of PED usage.

Finna send ya to ol shag Hennessy office

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Thank you! And congratulations on the IM

I have a phobia of swimming and the reason is when my shoulder fell while swimming what is the solution sir thanks

The swim was with a current and short at 3.4Km, the course is known for it

This is encouraging to me....thanks!

Don’t let this distract you from the fact that he is Mexican

This was helpful, especially the importance of meditation. Thank you

blessed post

brilliant

Thank you so much for your articulate explanations. I really appreciate it

Thanks

If you're exhausted quickly, might be you're holding your breath; if you do that, you will hold a bit of air in bottom of your lungs, then you'll do the same with next breath, and quickly you can't catch your breath. Practice breathing out as soon as you're face is underwater and expelling ALL air out of your lungs.

First you learn to play in the water. Forget about swimming. Just make friends with it. Use Goggles! It's not about doing the crawl back and forth for 20 minutes. Have fun.

@@jovesheerwater Oh I've spent so much time in the water; in swimming pools, in rivers, in the sea. I love being in the water, and I have goggles, I just really struggle to learn the skill of swimming. I've recently realised that it might be the result of an incident when I was around six years old, walking into the deep end of the swimming pool, swallowing lots of water, and thinking I was going to drown. I remember I had lessons soon after and I was holding on to the edge, terrified, telling the teacher I thought I was going to drown. I guess there's been some mental block there ever since. I also got into a bit of trouble around five years ago, when I was snorkeling in Tenerife. I went out to what I thought was a very modest distance but when I tried to come back the current was very strong and I nearly didn't make it. I've been making a little bit of progress with the help of a friend the last few weeks so I'll keep practicing and see where it takes me.

@@sherrywhite1517 I'm actually very good at breathing out, it's the breathing in without taking in water that I struggle with, but it's improving a little bit.

@@sherrywhite1517 Thank you! it explains a lot to me!!!

Congratulations!!!!!!!

Its a bucketlist skill of mine too!

wow, im so proud of you. kudos to you for conquering your fears!

You really wanna swim without getting tired? Forget such useless techniques and just move like a gecko inside the water (of course with slower movements). You will have a very mild pace while saving tons of energies and if you administrate it well it makes you save even more energies than remaining in fixed position with legs down , at the same time you can move too. If you want to give more thrust you can occasionally move the legs like a frog does. You can soon naturally learn it , just keep in mind the movement of a gecko and you will quickly adjust the whole. That's honestly said by a person who was born by the seaside and has swam all life long , even against waves and currents , even underwater while exploring , and it works in a swimming pool too. People who are just going to learn swimming in a swimming pool will never be able to swim for long time such as in an emergency situation. At the swimming pool you learn techniques used to go fast in a competition and without adverse water conditions , swimming without getting tired is another matter. Often people who don't live by the sea are not able to truly swim by practical convenience and just apply the techniques they were taught in a pool. Not having much muscular mass helps a lot too , the ones having muscle mass get tired quicker and drown quicker , also having too much fat make you drown quicker though it protects you from the cold , and also being too skinny makes you drown quicker , both because energies and because you become more vulnerable to the cold , while a balanced body is the best type for surviving into the water for long time. I will not read possible replies so to prevent fanaticism.

@eg🏳️‍🌈⃠ Try goggles next time. Youll be so much calmer you could hold your breath for 20mins+ 😁

I was trying to find somebody else who noticed HAHA

​@@DisciplineDedicated+1 😂

😂 a lot of people that don't know are angry at me for pronouncing them like that

@@SkillsNT Hopefully, they are not going to war with you. :D

Hello :) I’m a beginner too! I find this video very informative. Thank you!

Rather than constantly kicking like the other swimmers shown in this video, the Swimmer at 5:24 kicks in tandem with his arm movement. Constantly kicking is tiring. I've been a horrible swimmer my entire life but when I learned of a technique called 'total immersion swimming' using timed kicks, I became a much better and more relaxed swimmer. Disclaimer: FWIW, I'm a non-competitive amateur. Check out Total Immersion Swimming. Once I learned that technique it changed everything. It made such a difference in effort that I went from hating swimming to loving it.

I knew i wouldn't be the only one who noticed!

Why not start today...

Your last words are what stops you from learning. You just hope to learn, you are not learning by hoping, you are sitting ducks while hoping. Hope is never the driving force of progress.

@@alstallioX swimming classes are expensive 😅

@@chiamakae6416 Check at your local city rec center if you have one (not YMCA). I got swim lessons for my daughter (5) for free and mine was only like $40 for 4 lessons. Got me far enough to float and stroke and then work on getting better with technique on my own.

Thank you!!

I agree. You guys are the best. I've learned and still learning a lot. Your videos are awesome. My swimming is improving from the knowledge received here. The Aaron series represents someone like me who just took up swimming since August 2021 and I am able to swim now and just working on better breathing technique and less kicking to conserve more energy. I am about to go swimming in about 30 minutes and will include the kicking while on the back in my sessions. Thanks again.

I noticed A A ron as well 😀

@@joniversenI saw that too, Mr Garvey.

There is no better. You will never be better or worse than anyone including yourself. There is only weak or strong. Meditate on this while you swim.

@@nomorealone9158 It aint so fun anymore when you are drowning, is it?

with you on that one!!! I was drowning in a pool with my mom watching (probably she didn't even get I was drowning).

... and "Blake" at 5:45.

This is just weird. They went to the trouble of making this video as a K&P tribute?? What's going on here??

Lol facts he said aaron and balake 😭😭😭😭

@@MichaelASchultz I’m too high for this 🤣🤣🤣 this randomly popped in my recommended

Same with me

Same here but practice is the key, always has been. Being 2 meters tall, roughly 30kg underweight (damn you hard gainer body...) and also long legs, the effort is massive. Its so frustrating to see kids flying past you like its nothing for them! But going to pool three times a week helped a lot to improve the endurance and now 1km of swimming is not so hard anymore. Occasionally was doing 1.5km and once tried baby marathon swimming course aka 2km swim which i was impressed i managed to do. Turned out it was already way past the moment I must have needed to get to next level, I was idling at 1km with my efforts already, but I was swimming frog style those 2km. It aint effortless still, I still have blackening on my eyes after 500m like Im at my limits but its not like it was before where freestyle swimming 25m and Im dead whale at the poolside... Swimming other techniques first helps before progressing to freestyle, frog is the easiest and with proper technique and practice you will be on par and better than most people swimming freestyle by itself already. Hardest must be butterfly which is still a bit no no for me. It is seriously hard one...

Maarten vd Weijden swim 116 hours the 11 city's in Friesland Netherlands

FAKE YOU WILL BE DROWN, YOUR BODY WILL GO DOWN TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA

Doesn't your beard create drag????!!!

Things we also did in club: - Swim without putting your head in the water (keep head straight); - Swim with your floaters on your legs - Swim with your legs attached and without waving them. - Swim with arm stretched in front of you and your leg attached and undulate like a dolphin, try to go as fast as you can. - Swim on you back, only using legs and using your lung for buoyancy. - Do the plank, arms and legs out, then expire until you touch the bottom (in a 3m pool) - Weight your legs / arms and do the above - Use "plates" for your hands and swims - Use flippers - If you don't wear swimming glasses, try to swim with swimming glasses while looking at the bottom (can be disturbing, especially when the pool is deep) - Simple jump from pads without any splash and try to reach the other side without any "swimming" move - Drop floaters with different buoyancy (So they are at different depths) and collect them all - In the small pool (less than 1m depth), throw annulus all over the place and try to collect as much as possible before having to emerge - In the small pool, run across the length - Swim with a spongy pajama In pair: - Grab your partner from the middle of the pool and bring him on the side (or do a length) - Grab feet of your partner and swim with your feet while he uses his arms, switch - Fight under water - In the small pool, compete with someone else to collect annulus without emerging

0:32 A-A-Ron? 😂 Key & Peel Joke?

Same here❤

total immersion swimming was/is also the answer for me. shout out to Terry Laughlin and Tim Ferriss!

Thank you so much for your comment. I am about to go for a total ankle replacement and have to get fit and lose some weight too. So I went back to the pool after about 6 years. To know that swimming helped with your rehabilitation is great. I'll keep swimming till my surgery. Thank you.

@@projectembrace1964 Half of the preparation for replacement surgery if physical, and half is mental. For the physical, it helps build your circulatory system so your blood moves around more efficiently which helps speed the recovery. For the mental part, I did Thai Chi for years before my surgeries, so lots of meditational standing and breathing. You can learn to calm yourself. Between those two things, the surgeon said I was a perfect candidate for bilateral hip replacement. Good luck with your repair job!

The technics, coordination.

Me too, but after training constantly over months I can now swim easily 10 laps. You need to train, same as running.

It is not that easy with utilizing legs. You have to synchronize them with your arms, and it also depends whether you are doing sprints or swim longer distance.

Yea, it takes time. I am a runner too. Swimming is just whole new thing. It's more like your arm endurance rather than your legs. Good thing we have enough endurance for our legs. Just need to train the arms. Good luck . I am trying to complete a lap .

@@sundeepsinghbhullar6320 Like in most sports your whole body is working. Strong legs don't guarantee success.

This sounds key. Thanks.

Nees to work on this. Maybe I need to focus on the back more than the face. Sometimes I can get my breaths in and sometimes I miss it smh 🤦🏾

no way , no matter what l do l sink and choke

I really like your videos as you make swimming look very easy. When I jump into the pool it's a totally different story. I really struggle as I get tired very quickly and I really put in alot if effort in my swimming. I don't have a swimming couch but I'll let you know if I get better. Thanks.

It's definitely not about cardio. I can run half of a marathon (can't say easily) or 12 minute sprint but few minutes of proper (more or less) swimming increases my heart rate dramatically. And a year of regular training hadn't helped. More over, I can feel increased heart bpm right now writing this text. It's something about ancient animal fear which can't be controlled at all.

@@igronus I didn’t mean that when you have a good condition at running you can also swim for a long time or vice versa. Same for other cardio workouts. You have to train it individually. And yes I agree, if you are anxious nothing helps. You need to control that first.

yes. have been looking for this.