Do Your Legs Sink When You Swim?

Struggling to keep your legs high in the water? Your hips follow your head! Work on body position with this drill! #shorts

[TrangNguyen-chfp]

Brilliant. Im learning the rules of balance before practicing coz I couldn’t understand it when the coach told me to perform my legs and arms on the water. I prefer to know the rules to be more confident

[daddysays]

Okay, now how do I breathe without sinking?? Love these incomplete 'tutorials' 🤣

[yellowbudgie]

Ok, that's clear, but what can I do, when during my practice ( I'm a beginner swimmer) my coach tells me to do the exercise he calls "motorboat " where you swim with freestyle kicks but your head is above the water and your arms are extending onto a board. I usually do it as a form of warm up, and this is when it's really challenging to keep my hips higher in the water. Is there anything I can try to eliminate sinking hips in this exercise?

[noobsical]

Swam for the first time in years and have a test coming up tomorrow to make it into the rowing team. I need to swim 2 laps when my max so far is 1.5. But I'm gonna have to learn how to adjust my head positioning as I do the test itself. Wish me luck!

[selzoo]

I had been learning free style swimming since 4 days, my coach wasteaching this drill till now, all my friends improved but i got stuck cant move forward at all, it seems i make my muscle tense, still when its loose also, i cant gain any speed from it. But today she also added arm pulling, that gave me the boost, and i managed swim longer than ever,
Will I'll be okay with not completely learning kicking or will it be better with me.

[doninfinte]

But but, I like how tigers swim way more angry like you want to punish the water for your presence haha 😡

[vanesamobbak]

I learnt that truck as a begginer in swimming and it has really worked for me

[Zionrothemillionth]

My mom is a great swimmer but she always swims with he head on on top the water and still is a great swimmer meanwhile me who can’t swim the head on top thanks when I put my head down It makes me float too I still think I need more practice

[bhuvinagpal]

I am on this stage right now... Guess this may help me. Thanks

[AnaRibeiro-oqft]

Is this why when i try to raise my head to breath in i go down?

[hamonrye]

Do you ever see Mr Rosen swimming at that pool?

[shanikpakeer]

I had the opposite. My hips stayed high and I could never take my head out to breathe

[Blue_G]

I can do this for about 10-15m then I go nowhere 😂 even though I have my head in the water and legs up & kicking idk

[erupa]

What to do if ur hip and legs come imup a bit to much

[briandoe]

Hi... I was born with a club foot which was operated upon. So I have zero mobility in one ankle of mine which is stuck in a 90degree position. It atrophied my calf.

So that leaves me with one normal leg and one very weak leg which I can't bring to pointy-toe position because I can't move my ankle.

This non-symmetry leaves me with a skewed kick which takes me all around the place. I have no balance.

This leaves my feet sinking, and my lack of balance makes it extremely difficult to learn how to breathe in the freestyle position.

Can anyone please help? I'm supposed to swim daily to help relax my scoliosis affected spine. Yeah, I'm fked 😅

[Sky-httv]

I purposely lowered my hips because they stuck out of the water, and now that’s what I’m used to.

[lawistruth]

How do children understand all these 😮

[barackputin]

Perhaps you americans should wash instead of wiping? Maybe that'll get rid of the smell

[ChrisDPS]

im okay ive got a bunch of farts in me