Hey guys, I'm quite capable mentally, but always struggled a bit learning how to perform certain physical abilities properly. So I can easily say I'm a slow learner when it comes to swimming.
I've been swimming a lot before COVID, but I'm not a good swimmer by any chance. My single biggest issue is I can't tread water. Have been trying to learn that for years now with no luck, I always get tired really quickly. I breaststroke in a weird way and it tires me a lot after only a few hundred meters (I have tendency to do the kick and stroke at the very same time, it's hard to beat :/). My backstroke is decent and that's how I swim most of the time, I'm not the fastest backstroker out there but I'm really enjoying it and can backstroke for hours.
Anyway at some point I started working with an instructor (2x1 hour a week + 2x1 hour a week solo) and we focused on breaststroke first as it's a must if you want to call yourself a swimmer. Also I'd love to be able to swim a lot not only on my back.
I'd say after 5 o 6 hours my style was as bad if not worse. I performed 1 of 100 strokes properly, if not less. Is that normal? I can't wrap my head around the fact that all my friends, my parents, my siblings etc. can just backstroke and I'm really putting effort and money into it and nothing comes out of it. I think my instructor is a pretty decent one and taught a lot of people how to swim, but I don't see much progress. I want to come back to swimming after the COVID break but I'm a bit anxious about all this, maybe breaststroke is just not for me? I have a feeling even front crawl would be easier to learn, I can mimic it to some degree and it just feels right. Breaststroke never feels right, it's really freaking hard to synchronise legs, hands, breath, head, whole body movements, geez. Sorry.
Any hints?
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