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How often to have swimming lessons?
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The other option is to find a pool (or session time) without the lane dividers and swim widths at the shallow end rather than swimming lengths...0
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I don't think you need more lessons, just practise. Go as often as you can and bit by bit it gets easier.
I use to go the gym & pool 4/5 days a week and got up about 60 lengths, but they closed our pool which was only a couple of hundreds yards away and the new one is about 3mls so i've not been since.Liverpool is one of the wonders of Britain,
What it may grow to in time, I know not what.
Daniel Defoe: 1725.
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Update: taking on board the advice here, I faced my terrors and went to the pool, without the safety net of a swimming teacher who could jump in and rescue me when I started to drown. And you know what? It was fine. Three times a week from now on, and swimming that mile definitely feels a lot closer.0
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Well done , thanks for coming back to update.. its nice to know the posts really helped..#6 of the SKI-ers Club :j
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" Edmund Burke0 -
It's great to hear that your swimming is going so well. As a child, I used to spend a lot of time just floating, or treading water. If you are nervous, that might help you to relax, and give you more confidence that even if you aren't swimming forward, you will be fine even if you are out of your depth.0
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Great!!! Well done. Just build up slowly, don't overdo it, set a goal of 5 lengths, then 10, then 20 by New Year!!! Even if it is 10 in one go by New Year that is real progress.
Keep a record of your lengths. Set a weekly target, gradually extend it and there is literally no ceiling on what you can do.
I managed 70 lengths today (Saturday) when Maw, Paw and the weans are traditionally in the Pool. Christmas shopping claimed them today and I had a stress free swim. Thank you god!
Not looking forward to an overcrowded January but confidently looking forward to February when the New Year resolutions crew have disappeared.0 -
Hi, swimming schedules really will depend on you. Although the more you do, the greater the chances that you will improve faster.0
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Nice ideas..0
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