Give me one good reason why you don't swim regularly.

>>40731428
chlorine kills my lungs

I wish I could dbh

Ashamed of gyno.

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ima nignig
we slightly rabid

The pool at my LA fitness is full of old men who will try to molest me in the water

>>40731428
it hasn't gotten above freezing in three days and my local pool isn't heated

Because my cardio sessions cover all those benefits and more while not having to get wet.

>>40731483
Oops - I guess mine aren't low impact, but I don't really care about that.

b/c theres no swimming pools in my gym

>>40731428
my gym pool closes at 9 and go to the gym at 11

>>40731446
this, I look like trash without a shirt on

Because my arms/shoulders need to rest between lifting sessions so I'd rather run

>swimming in other peoples sweat and piss
No thanks.

>>40731428
the pool at my gym is usually full of old asian people that most likely piss in the pool.

>>40731428

Because when I get into the water my arms just slap at it and splash it everywhere and then I slowly sink to the bottom

>>40733017
That and chlorine will give you cancer.

>>40731428
Actually just started a few weeks ago, because no gym due to lumbago.
Any tips? Routines?
I do 4*crawl, 4*breastsroke, 4*back crawl. Repeat twice.
I can't seem to swim 50m without swallowing water halfway through, any resources to improve technique?

>>40731428

You're better off doing high rep cardio warm-ups to be more specific to the main lifts.

>>40731452
A new LA fitness opened in my area in Orange County that has an outdoor pool, lounging area and music playing. Every other LA fitness I've been to sounds exactly like what you describe

Swam varsity in highschool my 50yd freestyle was a 23.12, why I dont swim anymore, I weighed 160lbs and was 6'2 I was lean and shredded but I alway used to cry "why can't I get bigger!" I ate so much fucking cals swimming and took many supplements. now post highschool, I started lifting and weigh 225 and am a fucking beast, don't swim or do cardio and look like a monster. Won't lie though occasionally I do use the pool at my gym and do aerobics laps underwater, and I do sprints for lactate acid, but aside from that I don't do shit like I did in highschool, swimming will make you lean, but it will eat your muscle and prevent you from getting buff!

I'm going to once i get in better shape. I'm afraid to take my shirt off around qts

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>>40733467

i have a decent amount of loose skin and I think it'd be unsightly as fuck, and i dont wanan be the dude with a shirt on, so i just stick to biking

>>40731428
>Give me one good reason why you don't swim regularly.

local pool surrounded by black men in suits who won't let anyone in, AIDs apparently

>tfw curly hair

>>40731428
I fucking hate swimming, there good enough for ya faggot?

>>40733215
Lookup rhythmic breathing

>>40731428
I'm a lazy shit and don't want to wake up at 5.

>tfw developmental squads have no talent whatsoever.

>>40731428
I do, the only bad part is the old cunts in the change room who stumble around naked while talking to their mates and rubbing their big wrinkly balls.

>>40731428

Because surfing and cycling are 100x better

>>40731428
People who bench or press at least 3 times a week are already in a high risk category for rotator cuff injuries. Rotator cuff injuries are most common in swimming. Do the math, I'm not taking the risk.

>>40731446
same
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>40731428
Anyone here who taught himself to swim? Really want to learn it, but am too much of a jew to pay the 30€ per hour fee for a fucking group course.
I can swim for like 25-50m, but am completely out of breath afterwards because of my shitty form. I do lots of cardio, so that's not the issue.

I watched several instructional videos and made an ass out of myself many times, by swimming half-laps with resting stops inbetween, while some fucking grannies swim nonstop for like forever. The progress has been quite shitty so far, though. I got some swimming goggles, but am still too stupid to get my breathing right.

Any advice? Should I just do the course?

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>>40731428
i don't know how to swim

>>40734479

>Not already knowing how to swim

are you black?

i need a new swimsuit

but yeah my gym has a pool and i've literally never used it bc swimming is a childish activity. if im in a pool im just chilling out not trying to katie ledecky all over the place

Pools are absolutely disgusting and I don't live near any good rivers to swim in.

>>40731428
I can't. My parents didn't try to teach me to swim until I was 10. By that point my fear of submerging my head, and the fact I was having to train alongside kids less than half my age, was enough to mentally fuck my shit up.

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>>40734572
is this a joke

>>40734528
Was already pretty autistic as a kid and hence didn't take a swimming course, as the only fucking kid in my class. I wish I hadn't been so stupid as a kid/teenager.

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>>40733026
>>40734508
>>40734589

>>40733554
Classic meme

because it's not summer yet and pools are disgusting

I always get water in my ears and the pain is terrible. Ear plugs also don't work. Used to swim like 4 hours a day, but nowadays I value my hearing over wall tag.

My shoulders are bad already, I hear swimming makes them worse?

>>40731446
>Ashamed of gyno.
My tits perk out further than my dick. I don't give a shit. I swim I work out shirtless. I'm 30 years old and I've just stopped giving a shit.

Getting changed and ready is time consuming and I'm a busy man.

Rowing is god tier. HIIT rowing kills the man and grows the muscles.

>>40733972
>surfing
That doesn't count as proper exercise mate. Surfing is like playing golf or sailing

Can confirm.
Training for my first Ironman ever, have run 5 full marathons before and about a dozen halfs. Gone on a few 60 mile bike rides before and thought I had pretty great stamina/endurance overall.

That was until I started to train for the swim, holy shit did that humble me really quick. A little over a month in now, seeing slow progress in my times and distance but I can feel my form getting better and better, and my lung capacity getting way better and am seeing a huge result on my endurance and speed while running as a result as well. Swimming is the absolute best cardio you can do.

>>40735131
>Swimming is the absolute best cardio you can do
I think this is because your heart rate is lower when you swim than it is when you run or do cycling, and that's exactly what you want when working your aerobic system: a relatively low, steady heart rate. You mainly propel yourself forwards with your arms, meaning that the working muscles are smaller, which means lower oxygen consumption, which results in a lower heart rate. Also, swimming includes a restricted breathing pattern, whereas you can basically breath all the time when your running. You don't suffer from all the pounding on your feet as in running, and if your technique is good you can basically swim for hours every day and constantly work on your aerobic system.

>>40731428
No good pool around my area

>>40733554
kek

>>40731428
Cause i smoke 60 ciggars a day. Try to swim with this. COF COF COF

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>>40731428
Cardio at the gym is more convenient but I have a foot of fetish so would really like to start

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I unironically go swimming 7 days a week. Weights on 3 of those days too.

>>40731428
Because girls in swimsuits intimidate me

>>40737370
Stupid sexy Klokov

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>>40737395
GLUB GLUB GLUB
*HITS VAGINA*
AAaaaa

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>>40731428
I don't know how to swim properly (as in anything other than breaststroke) and I can't find anyone to teach me.

I do have a pool in my gym which I could use though. Don't mind it too much since I like running.

>>40731428
I dont like taking my contacts out or losing them in the pool or swimming with my eyes closed

>>40731428
Because the pool is always full, and membership is very expensive.

>>40737549
Tfw no tall slender black girl to ride my dick

I've always been a great swimmer and do a shitload of swimming several times a week, every day in summer.

I also always remained a skinnyfat weakling and got fucked up posture. Swimming is useless.

>>40734618
DON'T FUCKING MEME AT ME
I never asked for this!

>>40737859
Swimming will make you good at swimming. That's all.

>>40731428
I started swimming but so far I've only made my neck stiffer.

>>40731428
My left flipper has no mobility
>broke left ankle 1.5 years ago

>>40731428
>swimmers don't train with weights
OK anon

I get rashes after swimming. Not worth it.

>>40731428
i don't want to accidentally trash a gas station bathroom

>>40739883
good meme

>>40737637
what are goggles

>>40733520

Cold water tightens the skin

>>40734960
>I've never surfed before: the post

You're fucking stupid m8.

>>40734617
Just teach yourself to swim. That's how most people do it.

swimming pools cost money

>>40733467
I do, they don't seem to care. Chatted up a ton of college cuties, even felt some up in the sauna. 275lb fatass

>>40737366
This one is rare

Lifeguard Masterrace

>Free pool and gym memberships
>$25/Hour
>Can check out half naked cuties while getting payed

because I can't swim. Tried to learn many times and can swim only for like 5-10 meters before losing my shit. Also nearly drowned once

>>40733026
Tommy Vercetti pls

>>40731452
That sounds like plot from some hentai movie.
And where is the problem exactly?

>>40740927
I am glad for anon.

I would have to suicide to do such a thing. The boredom would kill me.

>>40731452
The LA fitness in Marina/Playa Del Rey is great

>>40733244
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good to see another socal bro on this board

I don't know how to swim.
It literally doesn't make sense to me.
I have to exert an absurd amount of energy just to stay above water for 3 seconds.

>>40741955
>I have to workout to stay floating

Hurr fucking durr congrats you actively felt what the effect of swimming in your muscles you fucking retard.
Keep doing that and you will be shredded.

I did for about 4 years

I found it stupidly boring

So basically most people ITT don't swim because

>don't know how
>are too fat
>muh cardio kills gains

If you're still falling for the cardio kills gains meme youre too far left behind anyway. That being said if your only form of cardio is running, you're missing out on huge endurance and physique gains. Swimming and rowing are god tier for both of these things, and doing them together is going to overall improve your cardiovascular and muscular endurance more than doing just one.

I get that lifting heavy is a hobby for some people but overall fitness is a lifestyle and just doing one type of physical activity is just a waste in my opinion.

If you don't know how to swim, learn! It only takes a couple classes to get the technique down and then it's mostly practicing on your own and finding out what works for you. If you need to go to a class at the YMCA with a bunch of kids, so be it. Or just bite the bullet and ask somebody to give you some tips. I didn't learn how to swim until I was 20 years old. Same thing with rowing. Just ask someone to teach you the basics. 99% of people would love to impart some of their knowledge on you. I definitely wouldn't mind if someone came up to me after I was done my workout and asked for a quick lesson.

Cause i dont know how to swim.

How the fuck are there so many people here who don't know how to swim?

What's your country of origin and ethnicity?

>>40742147
is chronic exposure to chlorine bad for you?

I knew swimming a long time ago. I don't know how to swim now but I know how to not drown.

Any vids to teach me? I don't wanna spend money on an instructor it's expensive here

>>40741948

relax kiddo, it's like the second most densely populated region in the United states

>>40742010

You aren't understanding what I'm saying.
I'm not out of shape but something is not clicking because it's tremendously difficult for even a few seconds. Like impossibly so.

>>40731428
>Give me one good reason why you don't swim regularly.

I don't live by a pool, a lake, sea, ocean, or really any large body of water.

>>40742556
>I'm in shape
>I can't keep myself afloat

Pick one, if your fit your natural bouncy with just air in your lungs is enough to keep you on the surface lying on your back.

Used to swim competitively when I was 10-12 years old.
Have always been fascinated by butterfly. Here's some tips I found on youtube for freestyle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTQpF_mmg44
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HLW2AI1Ink

Swam and played water polo for 13 years

Swimming is overrated and boring as fuck. 20% of swimmers actually look like OP first of all. If you actually want to be physically imposing sprinters rowers crossfitters fighters rugby players and BBers have way better physiques than ottermode Swimfags. Most girls go crazy for swimmers more because most good swimmers are 6'1+ and white. They could be fucking badminton players and they do get pussy.

Also the no impact thing? Impact is what tempers your joints bruh. I know a load of people who swam from childhood and their ankles and knees are absolutely useless when they run, jump, or do any dynamic land effort with any real amount of intensity.

Swimmer girls can be hot though... though they always fucked basketball, football, soccer players and wrestlers - anyone who actually had muscularity. If you want to attract boring normie girls who think swimming physiques are something special then go for it lol

>>40731462
cold shower AND cardio at the same time, nigga. get on dat shit.

>>40734508
Nig nog detected

>>40731428
I played waterpolo for 5 years. Now I kickbox.

>>40734866

I wish I had this mindset

>>40743251
>crossfitters
Lol, entire post obviated by the stupidity of this statement

No access to a pool.

Feels bad, man.

>>40743424
Dude some crossfitters look good, get over it.

>>40740927
Where do you guard lives at? I feel like the ones in Canada make minimum wage, but I want to do it

>>40743438
More swimmers look good than crossfitters. Some crossfitters look good. Crossfitting doesn't make them look good, as was implied in the post.

It's almost like you crossfit yourself, with braincells like that.

>people think they're so /fit/ when they can't swim for shit

Laughing out loud at these so called """fitness experts"""

Nigger

>>40740927
mah nigga, work in a university pool and everyone is varsity/athletic so nothing ever happens

>>40742403
It might dry out your skin a little bit just use moisturizer

When I was younger I used to love swimming. We lived in apartments so I would swim every single day if I could even if it was just laps. I wasn't allowed in the gym but swimming was always fun .

I was so skinny and lean, even though all I did was play video games and eat junk food.

My mom got tired of being in apartments so we started renting houses. Well there was shit to do so I just stayed with video games and junk food and didn't swim anymore. Couldn't afford to join a membership and there was nothing to walk to. Years of that and I got fat.

I go to college now so I could go swimming every single day once again.. but I'm ashamed of my body. I lift and do the cardio bikes, but sometimes I think about going at 6 am before anyone is awake and just doing it.

>>40742625

You're a moron. I have a 60 resting heart rate and I ride a bike 10 miles a day. I probably have better cardio than you. It has nothing to do with being out of shape. I just don't get the motion of it and also I spazz out and start flailing. I'm not saying I can't learn but it isn't because I'm out of shape you dumbass.

>>40731448
Ayyyy lmao
>>40731428

> 2017
> bathing in chemicals
> enjoy your low test

>>40742625
That's not how it works dumbass.

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>>40733554
Claysic

>>40742538
D O U C H E
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swimming is expensive you bourgfag

it's pretty expensive where I live

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im laughing my ass off reading this thread. i've been swimming 10 years and im in the university team so listen up. swimming is a sport. if u want to get shredded go to the gym. if u want to swim either do it competitevly or dont do it at all and go run or w/e lmao. why cant people understand that. idk if there's one sport where you get shredded just from doing that sport. we all go to the gym. i lift 4 times a week with my swim firends so i can swim faster and win first place. also u can be swole af and still swim fast. pic related

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why swim when I can drive down to the coast and surf. Surfing masterrace reporting in

>>40746115
You don't actually surf, do you?

>>40745485
tfw my $10 a week gym membership I was grandfathered into now gives me access a swimming pool/sauna

>>40746070
> going to gym to swim faster
enjoy not swimming faster.

>>40747039
You don't know what you're talking about

>>40731428
My new gym doesn't have a pool. I swim in lakes in the summer though.

>>40747018
I had to quit LA fitness because it was fullof idiots and over crowded but I miss that sauna.

>>40737859
>>40738652

This

Blows my mind how fucking retarded and dyel people on fit are when they spout swim memes for aesthetics.

The flexibility aspect is negligible so is the """resistance""". I swam on a regional level for years with a few hours training every day and stayed skinny/skinny fat. You won't build muscle from going to a pool a few times a week also this .>>40743251

>>40745126
Kek.
We have the same cardio routine. I make sure to ride my bike 10+ miles a day.

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>>40747039
even cyclists go to the gym.
Dude even Mo Farah(5000m 10000m running) and Galen Rupp (marathon) are working with weights.
Every fucking faggot who's doing his sport proffesional is going to the gym

>>40737552
Didnt know that 90 degree rotation could make a picture so artistic.

Also - I hate the "going" part of going to the gym and there's no swimming pool 300 meters close to me so I just stick to rowing

>>40743251
>attract boring normie girls
>also I am tall and white
Yes, i am doing the right thing after all!
I am going to make it bros!

>>40731428
> Cardio
nuff said
>and strength training at the same time
please
> Low impact
...so?
> Increases flexibility
doesn't matter, i'm not some homo trying to suck my cock
> Great for your lungs
only valid point

>>40731428
i can't swim

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>willingly swimming and swallowing other peoples feces, piss and sweat

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>>40731428
the only pool in my area set up to do laps is at a YMCA where there are TONS of niggers.

I'm not getting AIDS just to get some cardio.

I unironically can't swim.

>>40743251
>Impact is what tempers your joints bruh
Wanna know how I know you failed biology?

>>40733244

Reppin the ORANGE CURTAIN

>>40731428
pools are fucking disgusting

>>40751994
They can't swim though.

>>40742147
you might just be the first rational person to ever post on this website

>>40733442
>measuring in yards
FUCK OFF AMERICAN SCUM TRYING TO MAKE HIMSELF LOOK FASTER REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE GIVE ME YOUR 50M TIME OR FUCK OFF REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE