How To Swim Without Getting Tired | Essential Tips For Swimming

Can you swim without getting tired? It's a question many of us are still asking ourselves when we go swimming! You might have a great aerobic engine, think of yourself as relatively fit yet after a couple lengths of swimming find yourself gasping for breath! We're taking a look at what’s causing this!

Fatigue is the limiting factor in so many sports, especially in swimming. You might have a great aerobic engine, think of yourself as relatively fit yet after a couple lengths of swimming find yourself gasping for breath. We want to look at what’s causing this and help you swim further without getting tired.

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[shaunhoulahan]

One thing that I’ve found useful for building endurance is a session each week where I swim the main set with a snorkel. I can build muscular endurance without worrying about my breathing. It’s really helped. I concentrate on my arm stroke while I do this set.

[henriettedyer]

I am an adult who just started swim lessons to overcome childhood trauma of drowning. I get tired fast. I definitely need to work on my breathing and learning to relax more. Everyday is a little progress. Thank you for these tips. ❤️

[devidia]

My tip: don't pin yourself to that bilateral breathing just because some people say 'you should'. If it's more comfortable to breath after 2 strokes instead of 3, by all means go for it, master it and kill it in your next race. We all basically switch to unilateral breathing when it matters most anyway

[qkayaman]

This is very good advice. What I'd say also, there's no easy fix, it needs a fair amount of practice to get to a level where you can swim without getting tired. I started swimming this summer, and it took about 40 1h sessions to get to a level now where I can cover 2km in 1h freestyle non-stop (yeah lots of room for improvement), and get out of the pool still feeling relatively fresh. I struggled for a long time getting winded and heart racing after every 50m, nearly giving up several times. Not entirely sure how I got over it, but one day it was like a switch was flipped. I think it's a combination of factors coming together, which are basically covered in this video - good breathing technique, staying relaxed, efficient movements, and pacing etc. Ultimately however I think it all comes down to practice and getting used to everything.

[SSJGibbsy]

Coincidentally enough, I experienced this exact thing earlier today. Relaxed, slowed me leg kick to my more natural rhythm and started off slower, picking up the pace. Achieved the fastest 1600m I have in a while with almost no effort!

Even though I know this, I still find it hard to remind myself to do these easy things right every time. It is easy to forget when you are chasing numbers and other targets.

[aaroiseverything]

I need this. Cant swim after lockdown anymore hahaha

[realalbertan]

My number one tip : short repeats at or slightly faster than your goal pace. Progression from week to week to improve how much volume you can sustain at a given pace.

[NickMaovich]

Pacing

Literally, the single most important thing in long distance swimming.

[isksn]

Omg omg omg omg thanks I literally get tired in warmup 😭

[eugsoh]

Trickle breathing. That was really well explained.

[johnswimcat]

I watched a lot of swimming videos and used to train for masters' but this is probably the best I've seen for anyone who can swim and wants to improve. All those things it took me years, and pain, to find out for myself. Brilliant and very well made and presented

[whimsical_haircut]

recently moved to an apartment with a pool- haven't swam in almost three years and excited to be able to get back into it!!! tysm for the tips :)

[patrickbourne]

This is great! So glad you made this video!

[crimith]

Thank you so much for this Video!! Exactly what I was looking for. :)

[mjmmedia]

You have such good content! Your videos are so well done! Keep it up! 👍

[peterkamianowski]

I swam for a long time in HS, and a short tenure swimming D1 at Uconn, and got into triathlon. Didnt swim for a while and getting back into it this year for Ironman Florida 2022. With all of that experience swimming, I still learned new things in this video. Yall are awesome <3

[Deepen_Pardeshi]

Hey.. I've a thought about swimming.. it's like a basic concept of swimming.. IDK how much right i am about it; but i feel that's this concept is the basic thing that everyone who want to learn swimming should know. It's the Breathing! Even before one learns any of the fundamental steps towards learning to swim one needs to learn the breathing technique.
In fact teching how to swim should go hand in hand with teaching how to breathe while doing a particular step. I mean.. that's how i learnt to swim.. It is hard to believe but one day it hit me that relaxing my breathing is the key to swim easily... It was a sudden realisation kind of thing that happened that day which improved my swimming so much that my friend who was also learning with me told me how i became so good in a day at swimming.

[jaydesimone]

I'd like to see a practical video in detail about how to only put part of your face out and avoid inhaling water. I turn my whole face out to the side and still manage to choke on water carried up by my head sometimes. When I try to turn less, even a small wave ends up hitting my mouth, keeping me from breathing. I have no problem breathing out the entire time my face is in the water, so I'm only inhaling when turning my head.

[srivastavautkarsh]

Giving a kick break after every 3rd kick gave me the needed break and allows me to swim 35 minutes without a break. Also introducing 2 rounds of breast strokes after every 4 round of front crawl allows rest to the muscle groups specific to front crawl