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I took swimming lessons when I was 30. Couldn’t swim front crawl at all before that but had signed myself up for a short triathlon so had a bit of motivation.
Front crawl is all about technique, once you’ve got the breathing down, you stop worrying about taking a lungful of water and relax a bit. Makes it much easier to focus on the technique and spend less energy thrashing about. Practise makes perfect, though. I soon realised the lessons alone weren’t going to help unless I got in the pool regularly. You’ll get there.
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I will be swimming five days a week before the course, and have a reasonable cardio vo2max base from turbo training. It’s more that I am going in looking to work on technique with low expectations about suddenly becoming a fast or endurance swimmer. I’d just like to get to the point where swimming for half an hour doesn’t sound like an impossible proposition