Swimming

[mouse_chalk]

A few years ago I used to go swimming 3 times a week, and I was really good at it. I got up to 70 lenghts within about an hour each time- in a 25m pool. Actually, shockingly, that was about 6 years ago :shock:

I've not been since my dizziness started, but I went this morning, and I managed 24 lengths in 40 minutes. Not nearly as good as I used to, but considering I haven't swam for the past 2 and a half years, not too bad? I'm trying to tone up my arms a LOT before our wedding in September and to lose weight as well. I'm going away with my friends in about 6 weeks and there will be lots of swimming involved, i.e. lots of walking round in a swimming costume, i.e. I want to look a bit less terrible!

Does anyone else like to swim? I feel quite dizzy now and I felt terrible straight after getting out of the pool but I'm glad I did it. I'm going tomorrow as well

 

[Becca]

I like swimming but I only learnt last year! Yes I learnt to swim when I was 12 but my dad can't swim and neither can my sister. Its wierd...... But I like splashing about and floating hehe

 

[Luvr of Wabbits and Polar Bears]

I like swimming but I can't swim to save my life
I like to stay in shallow area where my feet touch the ground.
When I do go swimming it usually with my friend and her 3 little kids.

 

[BethM]

Well, I love snorkelling, and that involves swimming, does that count?

Never learned how to swim. No lessons, or anything. I can do well enough to keep myself afloat for awhile, paddle about just a bit, and just enough to snorkel. (Though I'd be in trouble if there was a strong current!)

I don't mind my face being in water when I'm snorkelling, but otherwise I REALLY hate having my head underwater, or even water splashing in my face. I don't know why, it's been a phobia of mine as long as I can remember. (I don't even go on any sort of amusement park rides that might result in water splashing my face. Heck, I can't even face the water in the shower!)

I would really love to swim, and I really like being in water, but my fear keeps me from doing much of it. The only time I can get over it is at an actual beach, with actual ocean water.

 

[irishbunny]

I like to swim, we learnt in school from about the age of six till about 12, we used to go to the swimming pool every week. I don't go very often anymore and when I do I usually just mess around with friends rather then swim properly, I love diving though and we can ask the lifeguard for bricks that you throw down and they go to the bottom of the pool and you have to swim down and get it.

 

[BSAR]

I love swimming! Im not very good, i get too weak after awhile but I still love it!

 

[DeniseJP]

Love swimming... just hate being in a swimsuit!

Denise

 

[JadeIcing]

I love swimming there is a pool here. We plan on swimming and walking more.

 

[PepnFluff]

Yup! Water bubba here, I started lesson's at 6 months old! Sadly they didn't seem to do much LOL, I can swim well, but I honestly suck at over arm, I can do butterfly and backstroke but freestyle nup haha.

Good work with the swimming, I say I'll go but never do, I'm like that with runs to haha.

 

[MyLOVEABLES!!]

LLLOOOOOOOOOOVVVVVEEEEEEEEE SWIMMING!

 

[mouse_chalk]

I went again today, and I managed 30 lengths! In an hour! That's 750m, 150m up on yesterday


I also managed to get a card so that I don't have to pay full price each time now either It's making me dizzy afterwards but as dizzy as a bad day, and I'd rather have done some sort of exercise first if I can. I could never get up there on my own- it's a half an hour walk or 2 buses and I'd be too dizzy to swim once I got there, so I have to get lifts each way

We had to learn at school when I was about 7- it was compulsory. I could swim a bit before that though. My mum also sent me to swimming lessons outside of school which I LOVED- I actually used to learn to swim in the same pool we're going to right now lol

Beth, I can understand your fear of having your face underwater because I am the same with my ears! I refuse to put my whole head underwater at all. I could never open my eyes underwater either- I don't know how people manage that!

 

[pinksalamander]

Everyone at our school learnt to swim from 4-11.... We were the only school who had a pool.

I like to go swimming after I've been to the gym but I usually just do a few lengths then sit in the jacuzzi or the sauna

 

[BethM]

My school didn't have swimming until 9th grade. So I was already 14, and set in my water phobia. We had to walk a mile to the public pool, but it was only in the 60's for our swim lessons. Outside. I think I failed the parts I participated in, they wouldn't let me use my goggles and I absolutely can't open my eyes in the water. I think I got my mom to excuse me for part of it, the water was sooooo cold, I couldn't get in.

I did like to go to the pool when I was a kid, though, in the summer. My cousin would come over, and we'd eat lunch and then walk to the pool. (It was about a 30 minute walk.) All I really did was paddle around in the shallow part, or stand next to the wall.

 

[mouse_chalk]

Beth, that does soud horrible! No wonder you don't like swimming. At the pool I go to, they have school swimming lessons there every morning. I watch them as I swim, and remember why I hated it so much. They cram them into a tiny little space in the shallow end, so they have hardly any room to themselves, and they are constantly splashed in the face, with the teacher yelling at them because they missed their turn to go! They are allowed to wear goggles though, and our pool isn't too cold either (luckily!. The roof has windows in, so when the sun shines it gets even warmer I think.


I swam 32 lengths today! That's 800 metres! If I can make it to 40 lengths, I'll be swimming 1km!