I'm not but I really, really want to be. I have been in the water ever since I was a baby and started swimming when I was 3. Yet I live in a really small town so there is no swim team nor people to swim with.
The little Nugget named Katie ... I realized that I thats my pool like 5 mins into the video, it's the Burt flickenger center we have different lane lines and flags now haha
+CellistSwimmerDancer04 Daydreaming while swimming... and making sure you don't hit the wall, smack someone, flip turn badly, breathe in water, and get a cramp.
I agree with both - swimming is THE most perfect relaxation, even if I think I won't be able to stop thinking of something, at some point I suddenly realize I haven't been thinking about it for several laps lol. But it's also demanding to look at the same environment hours after hours days and weeks and months on end - in fact for a lot of swimmers the breaking points comes during puberty, one of them being other interests (like the first girl- or boyfriend) and the other that fact that they can't stand the environment anymore. That's why it's important to have a good team, so that even if you hate the pool at some point, you still go because the people there are fun!
Can we have a moment of silence for all the hair damaged in this sport? 😞🙏 (my hair used to be a dark brown, but now the ends are super blonde and dry)
I tell them "can you go from one end to the pool to the other without stopping? ". If they say no, I'll be like, that's it. If they say yes, I'll say "now do it 250 times more and you got one of our practices" Usually works
I agree! Swimming is underrated. I use to wrestle and play baseball and what we did in practice and competition is nothing like what these swimmers do. My cousin was a swimmer and a football player in high school he even said swim practice was way more grueling than football practice, and he went on to play D1 football in college. Swimming is also THE perfect sport for conditioning if you do play football or other sports. I decided to try to race my daughter who is a competitive swimmer and I was gassed at the end of my 25yard and she continued with a 50 yard freestyle and SMOKED me. I am way bigger and stronger than my 11 year old but she is conditioned to handle the endurance and power through. I have nothing but respect for competitive swimmers, they are some of the toughest athletes on earth. anyone who says differently never swam a race or practiced for 2-3 hours straight per day everyday!
Swimming is an incredibly undervalued and difficult sport. Moving effectively on land is challenging depending on whats required (catching a ball, skating, hurling ones body through space as in gymnastics), but water adds an element of gravity-importance and resistance in a foreign medium that demands you pay constant attention to your limitations. Moving in water is humbling and to be able to move within it with grace and speed is a great accomplishment.
Don't trash on football players. I've been playing football all my life, and just recently started swim. There's definitely a fine like between football and swim, and they both have hard parts, but football is still way harder. I can tell you, from experiencing both, the atmosphere of football is just so mind fucking, that only a select few can withstand the mental struggle. I'm not saying swim is different, but since I've been through that shit with football, swim doesn't seem as bad. Also, this may seem to be a surprise, but swim is far more taxing physically than football. All in all, all sports are hard, but swim definitely not the hardest, by far.
@@Alex-jb8zf the hard part is the persistant nature you need to have. Anyone can swim three 500s if they do it for one day. But to do that and lots of other things nearly every day is the hard part.
Thank you!!! Finally someone understands. My friends always say "your always at swim practice, what do you use? Floaties". It's just like, you try doing a sport when you can't breathe whenever you want.
IkR!! When i first started swimming it was so hard for me I didnt have the endurance i had to stop in the middle of a lap to get breath but my coach kept pushing me to go and ignore the pain and eventually I gained endurance and disapline and now i can do laps after laps
Anime Pikasaurus this is what i'm going through rn. luckily , i have some endurance from dance, but i always have to stop in the middle of sets to breath.
One time my friend said that and I took him to a lane pool at another gym in our city. I asked my coach for one of our workouts on a pdf and I went off of it coaching my friend. He didn’t even last the first 4 warmup laps lmao
My friend John said he did swimming and then he asked me if I wore a speedo and I said, "yes" and he was like "EWWW" and I just though to myself, "this guy isn't a real swimmer
All good swimmers wear speedo during practice including me and I haven't seen a single person wear hammers or shorts and shorts drag you . Maybe young swimmers might wear jammer but almost every swimmer wears speedos
Swimmers in Australia are demi-gods! We LOVE our swimmers. They are well paid, looked after, managed and make a lot of money from endorsements. Australians definitely understand the dedication it takes to reach the top.
Elise Butler Wow. I'm on my high school swim team(I quit year round a long time ago and regret it and I don't have time to do it anymore) and people didn't we had a swim team. Now being in Texas, football players are treated like Gods, and they were complaining how they have to share a stadium with the other high school in our district, so the school wants a new stadium. While us swimmers are literally sharing our pool with the city, I'm not joking, and share a REALLY BAD couch, I'm mean AWFUL couch with the other high school team.
To all the non swimmers that are sitting here laughing at this video... put it this way... Swimmers kick more than soccer players do, Do more flips than cheerleaders do, Do more sets than volleyball and basketball players do And more yards than a football player.... Still easy???? NO DIDN’T THINK SO!!! now I’m not saying that the sports I just said are easy but I’m just trying to say don’t UNDERESTIMATE swimming it’s harder than you think.
@@alohahawaii7376 dude please tell me you are joking.Like wtf man how is swimming gay.Do you know how hard is it for your mental not to break down after all this pressure they put us trough.
omg THANK YOU! Swimming is one of the hardest sports ive ever done by far and ive done quite a few. When i first started swimming it was so tiring and I really kinda hated it. The more I did it though the more I realized I loved it, it was me, the water, and my thoughts and it feels great. Im a freshman girl on the boys varsity swim team and I can for damn sure say it is a sport. Congrats to all my fellow swimmers who show up to practice every day to stare at the bottom of a pool
I swim and it’s TOTALLY underrated. And people who say it’s easy and anyone can do it should think again, because it’s not easy to balance school work and swimming. Or maybe that’s just me because I also am on a robotics team and in my schools band. But I swim 9-10 hours a week and I’m only in 7th grade. I’ve heard people who are in high school and college say it’s easy, and then when that actually try it themselves, they’re even slower than someone who’s at least 2-3 years younger than them.
I was on the swim team in high school and I invited some of the football players when their season ended if they thought swimming was a powder puff sport that they should come and try out if they thought it was so easy, and they should not have a difficult time being in top shape at the end of their season. When they showed up we were doing sprint relays with 3 in a lane where you sprint as fast as you can for 25 yards and your team member takes off and you have the time for 2 of your team to swim 50 yards total before you dive in again so about a 40 second rest. We would do this for about 45 minutes, they lasted about 3 rotations then got out of the pool and puked on the deck and never gave us any shit again about swimming being a wimpy sport.
My friends told me that I should do running becuz swimming was to easy. Me: Have you tried getting up at 5:00 4 days in a row just to jump into a freezing pool and do a hard set for 2 hours on an empty stomach? Have you tried running 100m without breathing more than 5 times? Once you do those two things, I’ll believe you.
This is so true, but here's the thing to people who don't think swimming is a hard sport or even a sport:They're jealous of us swimmers because they know that they could never do the awesomeness that us swimmers do.🏊🏻💟🏊🏻♀️#IswimandI'mproud
Thewonderfulwizardoftheweb i know its THE BEST work out . ive tried a lot sports but swimming is just on a whole new level of awesome been swimming 10 times a month for the last year loved every session . now able to swim 2+km in one hour i just wont be able compete on high lvl ever
I think you'd be able to do it if you actually train with a coach that makes you develop speed together with technique. Working out on land helps too, especially body-weight workouts. Probably not gonna get to the Olympics, but there are the Masters championships, various kinds of them, and hey, even most swimmers who start at five or seven will never make it to the Olympics, nor do most people from any other sports, so that's definitely not a reason to beat yourself up over it :D
I been swimming since I was in kindergarten I'm in 6 grade now. I can swim 3-4 miles in 1 hour and my practices are 2 hours long it has been great because I have met lots of friends, a perk also it at the community pool someone says wanna race? I'm like I don't know dude I'm not that good he's like me neither in my head I'm like mush shahs (:< then I destroy them.
I asked my friend to come over and swim in my pool for fun. She wanted to do races, and I asked if she was sure because I knew I would beat her. Then she said this " you swim for like 2 hours a day while work hard for 5-6 hours dancing. I'm in better shape for swimming and can probably beat you!" Instead of going easy I lapped her, never had that conversation again... ( I have been swimming for 4 years )
I disagree, it's not the way it is in America but like school swimming is ignored and the only thing they show on TV is open nationals and only specific events in that. They also don't put it on the main channels necessarily. People only know the household names of Australian swimming and people only watch it when the olympics or commonwealth games are on and australian swimmers can't go "professional" like american swimmers do.
what about swimmers who start late? but love swimming just as much as other swimmers their age who have been swimming their whole lives? but as late swimmers, we swim as fast as swimmers years younger than us.
+Martina Chione King I took lessons when I was maybe in second grade but I started competitive swimming in 10th grade. It's all about how much time and effort you put into it. I caught up within a few months of training 5 times a week.
I started when I was about 10 and now I'm 11 and I'm on a really good team that is really hard to get on but sure you can start at any age. Some 60 year old people are swimming
I'm a 10 year old comepetive swimmer and I wake up 5:00am train for olympics everyday of my life and I believe that I can do it and I have my hard times. Like muscles being so sore having to go to the gym to train legs and arms and your hair is fried and it's cold. Swimming is not underrated it's painful We work harder than anyone else You get so excited because you think your going to win then you come 3rd and yo always wish you did better. Swimming takes patients and time
I started swimming when I was four. Up until I was 11, I swam everyday. I practiced 1-3 hours a day and had swim meets every weekend. It was hard and grueling, but I loved it more than everything. I quit a few years ago and it is one of my biggest regrets. I had gone through a period of time where I was sad and depressed. I had to choose between gymnastics and swimming. I chose gymnastics even though I wasn’t as good at it as I was at swimming. Swimming was ver physically hard but my team was my best friends. I wish I could’ve seen the future and known I could’ve done something amazing. I was actually a very good swimmer for my age. I may start diving soon though, because I love being in the water and I also like flipping and tumbling. If anyone sees this, DONT QUIT. Stay with it, especially if you love and enjoy it.
I'm a distance runner now, not a swimmer, but I swam on a half-decent team for four years and I have extremely fond memories of going from the slowest girl in my age group to the fastest kid on the team. [Mostly because all the good people left, though.] The pool still means a lot to me.
I’m a swimming and if your not a swimmer you will never understand this video there is so much hard work to go into swimming people don’t realise the hard work that goes into this we train so hard and put massive amounts of effort into it ❤️🏊♀️🏊♂️❤️
One of the team members at my school is a wrestler, and did swim to condition. He went back to the team when season started and was doing CIRCLES around the other wrestlers. Many people wanted to try it out then
(this video is 5 years old and im only seeing it now lol) and i was watching pretty little liars and i gotta say, the most unrealistic part was when the whole school goes to the swim meets. the only people at meets are swimmers, coaches, and parents. hell, my parents didnt even go to one.
As I swimmer I can say all of this is true. Though I'm also one of those types that has tried to quit but gets pulled back to the sport over and over. I look forward to getting into the pool everyday, the workouts, the team. I feel relaxed while swimming and I'll put a song on repeat in my head of think of someone I like or how happy I make my family that they have a competitive athlete in the family. Though swimming is really mental. My coach makes us do 12x25 FR sprints on 0:40, this is to work towards our goal time but have lots of rest between sprints. It's hard, it's mental, it's torture that I hate to see drawn on the board every month. But it's awesome to see my time drop. My fastest 25m Fr sprint is 0:14. That would make a 29-30 second 50m time adding a flip turn. But he tells us to skip a lap if we don't make it within our goal time range and I've pushed myself to the point I zoned out from adrenaline and just laid on the deck for a moment, I didn't hear him when he asked me a question.
As a 11 year old swimmer: I have had ups and downs, it’s my heart and my soul . I started when I was 6/7 . I will probably start more training after vacation since I will be a junior. I get really stressed when I have to swim with other people But you keep growing and speeding up. When people cheer I don’t hear it. But if they wave or other things I get so much motivation and swim more and more. A coach also helps a lot because they will tell you how to get the best out yourself. When I’m at a competition it is sometimes really weird. You go to a new pool. Get your muscles warm and swim . I love what I do . And I have so many people/friends that have the same goal and we go for together People say it’s really easy . I also help with giving swimming lessons for 4 year olds. And it will never be easy easy but try your best stay motivated. Reach for your goal
I learned how to by watching TH-cam since last year after I retired. The resolve to dip into outdoor pool in California winter is not easy for me. I had to talk myself to do it if I wanted to practice daily. Being able to cut the water effortlessly and glide like a fish is therapeutic.
Thank you so much for making this video and now I can show it to my friends saying how hard swimimg actually is I'm 11 and I'm in gold and it's super duper hard to get up here and I totally admire people in the Olympics I want to try to be there for that going to be a lot of hard work
Underrated, but swimming will not wreck your body like other "revenue generating" sports do. It's a lifetime sport and I personally prefer health over monetary gains.
...over half of our swim team is injured, six people were out the other day for shoulder problems, I hurt my knee so badly at a meet a few days ago had to be on crutches all weekend and still swam at the next meet a few days later damaging my knee. Trust me it takes a toll.
I found swimming for fitness at 62. It helped me find my self-esteem and to rebuild a quality of life through the mental and physical strength I have gained. People who do not do it do not understand what it takes for me to swim a mile 5 days a week.
I am from Scotland and i swim in Glasgow swim team and most of our time trials are at 6:00 am and we train during all year and during winter, early spring and late autumn (fall) we only train and have a time trial every Saturday and training every other day and it seems a lot different to many American swim teams
I have been swimming pretty much my whole (short) life, and I love everything about this sport. However I think one of the main issues with why swimming is not as popular as many others is simply because it is not as visually stimulating as other sports - especially because most don't fully appreciate the skill it takes to become a top swimmer unless you have a decent amount of experience
I grew up in a family full of swimmers, we were taught to swim before we started walking and I started summer league at around 5 or 4, and club at 6.... but I quit at 9.... and I was good. And now at 15 I'm sooo behind my age group and have so much homework that'll make it nearly impossible to do club rather then high school and summer league (they are jokes). I miss it. My sister is really fast and is 13, because she continued. But hey... I'm better at breaststroke.!
Swam for years moved to triathalon and competed internationally stopped when I was 25 and concentrated on my business working 90 hour weeks made lots of money and even though I was only a fairly decent regional swimmer still gotta credit it for all my discipline and think it’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done
The Best The Healthiest The Most Disciplined Sport Of All Sports, No Bones Injuries Like Other Sports, It Keeps Your Lifestyle So Challenging, Disciplined And When It Comes To Making Decisions You Make The Best Decisions. I Love 🏊🏼🏊🏿🏊🏽 It's Not My Sport But It's In My Blood. 👌🏾🇰🇪
Who is here durning quarantine so all the pools are shut down so you haven't swam or seeing or team for weeks and is now on the verge if tears cuz you miss it so much
At one point I considered "retiring" during middle school, but decided not to because I've spent so much time growing up swimming that the concept of not having to go training and not be competitive is just alien to me.
I was a national level swimmer and on world rankings as a teen for 800 free. I’m now nearing 50 and occasionally go to a pool. I’ve still got my technique but no endurance! If I’m doing laps I still get ‘raced’ by younger males over 25m who are not ‘swimmers’ thinking they can beat a female. They can’t. The guys in my team never treated the girls any different, we were all swimmers. It’s one of the best skills I’ve ever learnt. I don’t tell many people I’ve been a swimmer because most people have no clue about it. I’m so glad swimming was my sport, it’s a skill that’s difficult to master but also difficult to lose. Once a swimmer, always a swimmer!
Swimming is like cross country/track in the aspect of training, going distances, sprinting, needing the mental game to push through.. except you can only breath sometimes and you are in a foreign element. Swimming seems simple. You swim back and forth.. but just like anything, there is much more to it than that. Basketball sounds simple to for anybody who has never played. You throw a basketball in a hoop and do that more times than your competitors to win. Obviously, for anybody that knows anything about basketball, there is profound amount more to the game that takes years and years to learn and to actually get good at. Swimming is the same way. There are many more things to learn and practice than tons of people would ever think. Much respect to fellow swimmers and all athletes in any sport that work hard and progress and improve.
Honestly those people who have been swimming for their whole life should be faster than those who start later. But what you need to realize is that when your 21 and swimming in college those extra 2-3 years don't mean a thing except maybe a millisecond. Plus some people have a natural talent such as Michael Phelps.
Been swimming for 10years but in the last 9months Ive been going atleast once a week. Now I can swim 5k in two hours and have put on over a stone of muscle
Oh my god I know I've tried most water sports Water polo- I'm not a aggresive person at all Diving-didn't really like it Competitive- did it from when I was 3-11 years old every day (I was put under a lot of pressure to do it because my mom did) Syncro- is my new passion and this is my 3rd year and I'm doing very well but it is easily the hardest
I agree with Beens, synchronized swimming gains a lot of respect from me, a competitive swimmer, because of the duration you hold your breath and the grace in which you move in the water. Unfortunately, I personally believe it is not as hard as competitive swimming- in terms of intensity, frequency and physical demands.
I was on my middle and high school teams in school. I wasn’t the fastest, but considering i was obese for my age my times were actually really good. I remember my final Championship meet and when I got home I felt like a piece of me just died thinking I wouldnt swim competitively. So i thought. Just sad. 4 years later I lose weight, swim at Masters meets hopefully some USA meets soon and am currently part of a team that just loves the sport and have fun with it. I go swim at 6AM and train harder knowing that I still got a whole lot left in me. And I’m just getting started 😈😈😈
I am a swimmer on a swim team sometimes it is brutal. But I know that if I push through the pain I will gain something Swimmers swim Be you Keep trying Pain=Gain
I love swimming ^w^. I started when I was 4 years old and stopped when I was 7 years old(I had lessons). The last years (now I'm 16,5)I don't swim so much, for exaple: this summer in Juli, I had to do Freestyle in the sea without stopping for 30min. only for 10 days. Now at school we go for swimming(we started the last days of Oct.) we have to do Breast for 20 min. and I was faster than anyone!!! How can that be? I didn't swam for 2,5 months and I thaught that I would be the slowest...........And at scool we swim 1 time in 2 weeks!
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Like if you are on a swim team
I want to. I might next year :)
hanmar It's harder than it looks. If you ever procrastinate the training which you prove you do. you can't do it
kyle miller I'm already dead
I'm not but I really, really want to be. I have been in the water ever since I was a baby and started swimming when I was 3. Yet I live in a really small town so there is no swim team nor people to swim with.
+Alex Wells Thanks :)
"Can you hang out?"
"I have practice. "
Like if this is a common conversation.
cactus mom lol
Or when ur friends text u while you were at swim and you say “sorry i was at swim”
I have that copied and pasted😂😂
True
Haha jokes on you I don’t have friends outside of swimming
Every fucking day
I had to say that my ex bf almost every weekend cause of swim meets
Nonswimer: cool video
Swimmer: DAAAANNGGG THAT POOL THO
true
The little Nugget named Katie yesssss omg
The little Nugget named Katie true that pool is awesome
The little Nugget named Katie ... I realized that I thats my pool like 5 mins into the video, it's the Burt flickenger center we have different lane lines and flags now haha
@Paige Eaton armyyyy
"staring at the bottom of a look for two hours makes for a mentally strong athlete" actually my mind wanders way easier now because of swimming
+CellistSwimmerDancer04 Daydreaming while swimming... and making sure you don't hit the wall, smack someone, flip turn badly, breathe in water, and get a cramp.
I agree with both - swimming is THE most perfect relaxation, even if I think I won't be able to stop thinking of something, at some point I suddenly realize I haven't been thinking about it for several laps lol. But it's also demanding to look at the same environment hours after hours days and weeks and months on end - in fact for a lot of swimmers the breaking points comes during puberty, one of them being other interests (like the first girl- or boyfriend) and the other that fact that they can't stand the environment anymore. That's why it's important to have a good team, so that even if you hate the pool at some point, you still go because the people there are fun!
Charle Magne that stuff happens to me at every single practice and I hate it
YamiKisara LMFAO it is NOT relaxing
Benz Black then you're doing it wrong lol
Swimming is beautiful
OMG hi I love your channel!
Skills NT Swimming I love your channel❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@@lovely438 i guess they changed their name lol- but it's the same thing anyway
When done well
Can we have a moment of silence for all the hair damaged in this sport? 😞🙏 (my hair used to be a dark brown, but now the ends are super blonde and dry)
Brianna Simon wash it after practice lol also at least you werent dirty blonde that shit turns green bc of the chlorine
u need to wash ur hair srsly
Well you still have hair... can't say that for me....
Lol yes
@@mosescalkins3609 Ik right! Rest in piece for all the full blonde swimmers out there.
When ever someone says swimming is easy in front of my coach she tells them to come to our practice and after that practice they never come back
Thats what i felt like the first day in sophmore 🤣
I tell them "can you go from one end to the pool to the other without stopping? ". If they say no, I'll be like, that's it. If they say yes, I'll say "now do it 250 times more and you got one of our practices"
Usually works
I agree! Swimming is underrated. I use to wrestle and play baseball and what we did in practice and competition is nothing like what these swimmers do. My cousin was a swimmer and a football player in high school he even said swim practice was way more grueling than football practice, and he went on to play D1 football in college. Swimming is also THE perfect sport for conditioning if you do play football or other sports. I decided to try to race my daughter who is a competitive swimmer and I was gassed at the end of my 25yard and she continued with a 50 yard freestyle and SMOKED me. I am way bigger and stronger than my 11 year old but she is conditioned to handle the endurance and power through. I have nothing but respect for competitive swimmers, they are some of the toughest athletes on earth. anyone who says differently never swam a race or practiced for 2-3 hours straight per day everyday!
I did summer swim team from 8-18 years old and was always in great shape once football season rolled around. Also went on to play college football 👍
Swimming is an incredibly undervalued and difficult sport. Moving effectively on land is challenging depending on whats required (catching a ball, skating, hurling ones body through space as in gymnastics), but water adds an element of gravity-importance and resistance in a foreign medium that demands you pay constant attention to your limitations. Moving in water is humbling and to be able to move within it with grace and speed is a great accomplishment.
Don't trash on football players. I've been playing football all my life, and just recently started swim. There's definitely a fine like between football and swim, and they both have hard parts, but football is still way harder. I can tell you, from experiencing both, the atmosphere of football is just so mind fucking, that only a select few can withstand the mental struggle. I'm not saying swim is different, but since I've been through that shit with football, swim doesn't seem as bad. Also, this may seem to be a surprise, but swim is far more taxing physically than football. All in all, all sports are hard, but swim definitely not the hardest, by far.
the only hard part of football is taking a hit other then that its not very hard
@@Alex-jb8zf the hard part is the persistant nature you need to have. Anyone can swim three 500s if they do it for one day. But to do that and lots of other things nearly every day is the hard part.
Mecha Naught he’s wasn’t saying football is easy. It’s just football players tend to be the ones who say swimming is easy.
True
Thank you!!! Finally someone understands. My friends always say "your always at swim practice, what do you use? Floaties". It's just like, you try doing a sport when you can't breathe whenever you want.
same girl same. And kickboards!!! My friends just think oh, you mean those things that toddlers use. No. Just. No. 😂
Finally someone understands our sports
IkR!! When i first started swimming it was so hard for me I didnt have the endurance i had to stop in the middle of a lap to get breath but my coach kept pushing me to go and ignore the pain and eventually I gained endurance and disapline and now i can do laps after laps
+ARSNL Strings you are so right!!
Anime Pikasaurus this is what i'm going through rn. luckily , i have some endurance from dance, but i always have to stop in the middle of sets to breath.
Honestly, swimming is both a team sport AND an individual sport, just like it's both a sport and a lifestyle.
"you jump into the cold pool at 6 in the morning" me: pfft😂😂😂 u meant 5?
every video i’ve seen, high school swimmers have morning practices, mine are all afternoon
U mean 4
Im 12 rn and over the span of the holidays we have 5 days where we swim 2 times a day. One at like 5am one at 5pm
over the winter my team had practice starting at 5:30 am. So i woke up at 4:30 am
I swim @ 4am amd my coach always says “I’m sorry that we gotta wake up this early”
Swimming: the only sport you get yelled at for breathing
yes like constantly getting yelled at for breathing inside the flags
@@agsmith4713 exactly
Omg the truth in this is immaculant
Someone:Swimming isn't hard
Me:You try doing any sport without breathing
People don't understand what they don't know. 😆
One time my friend said that and I took him to a lane pool at another gym in our city. I asked my coach for one of our workouts on a pdf and I went off of it coaching my friend. He didn’t even last the first 4 warmup laps lmao
@@blvrryvhs That is hilariously understandable 😂
@21S2-H-srishti srinivas 0 to 1 breaths total....
Swimming is an awesome sport.
My friend John said he did swimming and then he asked me if I wore a speedo and I said, "yes" and he was like "EWWW" and I just though to myself, "this guy isn't a real swimmer
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Who’s says speedos any more
All good swimmers wear speedo during practice including me and I haven't seen a single person wear hammers or shorts and shorts drag you . Maybe young swimmers might wear jammer but almost every swimmer wears speedos
@@ovanesgkrigkorian167 I wear speedo and jolyn, a lot of swimmers nowadays wheres jolyn swimsuits
Swimmers in Australia are demi-gods! We LOVE our swimmers. They are well paid, looked after, managed and make a lot of money from endorsements. Australians definitely understand the dedication it takes to reach the top.
Lmao I'm gonna move to Australia the :)
+thenPermable Gms
Elise Butler yeah in Aus I have NEVER heard anyone say swimming isn't a sport like the Americans complain that people say it isn't a sport
Elise Butler Wow. I'm on my high school swim team(I quit year round a long time ago and regret it and I don't have time to do it anymore) and people didn't we had a swim team. Now being in Texas, football players are treated like Gods, and they were complaining how they have to share a stadium with the other high school in our district, so the school wants a new stadium. While us swimmers are literally sharing our pool with the city, I'm not joking, and share a REALLY BAD couch, I'm mean AWFUL couch with the other high school team.
Elise Butler I'm an Australian swimmer ❤️
Really just any sport that involves water is underrated..
amaya sadly
hi army
Sooyaa hi 👀👀
To all the non swimmers that are sitting here laughing at this video... put it this way...
Swimmers kick more than soccer players do,
Do more flips than cheerleaders do,
Do more sets than volleyball and basketball players do
And more yards than a football player....
Still easy????
NO DIDN’T THINK SO!!! now I’m not saying that the sports I just said are easy but I’m just trying to say don’t UNDERESTIMATE swimming it’s harder than you think.
I saw that in pintrest XD
@@alohahawaii7376 dude please tell me you are joking.Like wtf man how is swimming gay.Do you know how hard is it for your mental not to break down after all this pressure they put us trough.
Aloha Hawaii so u are also
DIY At home also the water resistance on top of it
Aloha Hawaii oml you AGAIN
omg THANK YOU! Swimming is one of the hardest sports ive ever done by far and ive done quite a few. When i first started swimming it was so tiring and I really kinda hated it. The more I did it though the more I realized I loved it, it was me, the water, and my thoughts and it feels great. Im a freshman girl on the boys varsity swim team and I can for damn sure say it is a sport. Congrats to all my fellow swimmers who show up to practice every day to stare at the bottom of a pool
I swim and it’s TOTALLY underrated. And people who say it’s easy and anyone can do it should think again, because it’s not easy to balance school work and swimming. Or maybe that’s just me because I also am on a robotics team and in my schools band. But I swim 9-10 hours a week and I’m only in 7th grade. I’ve heard people who are in high school and college say it’s easy, and then when that actually try it themselves, they’re even slower than someone who’s at least 2-3 years younger than them.
Omg same I’m in 7th to and swim 1 and a half hours a day and do dry land it’s so annoying
@@paigekiddey1568 im in grade 7 and sometimes train 3 hours and a dryland (1:30) per day oop its 5 am rn and i have to go to practice 😂
@@sara.mcnabb omg I feel you but I don’t do 3 hours of dry land more like 2
all them soccer players complaining of going to practice at 9
Swimmer Andrew not all soccer players are the same😂 you missed the whole damn point of this video😂 ignorant af
I was on the swim team in high school and I invited some of the football players when their season ended if they thought swimming was a powder puff sport that they should come and try out if they thought it was so easy, and they should not have a difficult time being in top shape at the end of their season. When they showed up we were doing sprint relays with 3 in a lane where you sprint as fast as you can for 25 yards and your team member takes off and you have the time for 2 of your team to swim 50 yards total before you dive in again so about a 40 second rest. We would do this for about 45 minutes, they lasted about 3 rotations then got out of the pool and puked on the deck and never gave us any shit again about swimming being a wimpy sport.
damn that's a good set for endurance, might use it. Also awesome story.
My friends told me that I should do running becuz swimming was to easy.
Me: Have you tried getting up at 5:00 4 days in a row just to jump into a freezing pool and do a hard set for 2 hours on an empty stomach? Have you tried running 100m without breathing more than 5 times? Once you do those two things, I’ll believe you.
This is so true, but here's the thing to people who don't think swimming is a hard sport or even a sport:They're jealous of us swimmers because they know that they could never do the awesomeness that us swimmers do.🏊🏻💟🏊🏻♀️#IswimandI'mproud
wish id started swimming 10 years ago
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Thewonderfulwizardoftheweb i know its THE BEST work out . ive tried a lot sports but swimming is just on a whole new level of awesome
been swimming 10 times a month for the last year loved every session . now able to swim 2+km in one hour
i just wont be able compete on high lvl ever
I think you'd be able to do it if you actually train with a coach that makes you develop speed together with technique. Working out on land helps too, especially body-weight workouts. Probably not gonna get to the Olympics, but there are the Masters championships, various kinds of them, and hey, even most swimmers who start at five or seven will never make it to the Olympics, nor do most people from any other sports, so that's definitely not a reason to beat yourself up over it :D
I been swimming since I was in kindergarten I'm in 6 grade now. I can swim 3-4 miles in 1 hour and my practices are 2 hours long it has been great because I have met lots of friends, a perk also it at the community pool someone says wanna race? I'm like I don't know dude I'm not that good he's like me neither in my head I'm like mush shahs (:< then I destroy them.
Same mate. I started taking lessons once a week when I was 9/10. I just got on a team that practice 3 times a week this year, and I’m 14.
FINALLY! THEY DID IT! THEY MADE PEOPLE REALIZE HOW AWESOME AND HARD SWIMMING IS!!
Friend: Let’s Race Janey!
Me: What Stroke?
Friend: There’s Strokes?
Me: Facepalm.
I asked my friend to come over and swim in my pool for fun. She wanted to do races, and I asked if she was sure because I knew I would beat her. Then she said this " you swim for like 2 hours a day while work hard for 5-6 hours dancing. I'm in better shape for swimming and can probably beat you!" Instead of going easy I lapped her, never had that conversation again... ( I have been swimming for 4 years )
Absolutely love this pool
Just me who was wondering, WHY ARE THESE SWIMMERS WEARING FASTSKINS TO TRAINING 😂
+Kate Hughes_xox most of this was filmed at a championship meet
+Brad Ash okay thanks I was just confused it's an amazing video tho
YES OMG
+Kate Hughes_xox Who even does that? Its so uncomfortable!
Ikr lol they dont want to get fat or maybe its a special day.. Idk its feels too little but u look cool tho
The best part of swimming is the friends that you make!
Sooo true!! The best part of the hard sets for me is talking with my friends in a 10 second break.
Swimming is a big deal in Australia and totally not an underrated sport. :)
can I move to Australia? 😞
Stavroula Kraniti same
I disagree, it's not the way it is in America but like school swimming is ignored and the only thing they show on TV is open nationals and only specific events in that. They also don't put it on the main channels necessarily. People only know the household names of Australian swimming and people only watch it when the olympics or commonwealth games are on and australian swimmers can't go "professional" like american swimmers do.
Water polo: underrated sport 👌🏼
sadly
btsizzle I'm a swimmer, but I totally agree with this
Water polo is a sport but its a foreign sport. Only people i see playing that are european immigrants with strong accents. Not american...
By that logic then so is swimming. Almost no sports are inherently american. Football comes from rugby which is from Europe aswell.
I pure love water polo and I'm from Northern Ireland
what about swimmers who start late? but love swimming just as much as other swimmers their age who have been swimming their whole lives? but as late swimmers, we swim as fast as swimmers years younger than us.
Trust me I put so mush pressure on myself to improve since I started to learn to swim at 3rd grade and started a swim team in 8th grade
+Martina Chione King I took lessons when I was maybe in second grade but I started competitive swimming in 10th grade. It's all about how much time and effort you put into it. I caught up within a few months of training 5 times a week.
I started when I was about 10 and now I'm 11 and I'm on a really good team that is really hard to get on but sure you can start at any age. Some 60 year old people are swimming
+Jillian Kenney well I'm not bad it's just I started late and I think I'm okay
+Khul Bar lol I wasn't talking to u
Friends “ can we hang out “
Me “ I have practice “
This convo haunts all of us
I'm a 10 year old comepetive swimmer and I wake up 5:00am train for olympics everyday of my life and I believe that I can do it and I have my hard times. Like muscles being so sore having to go to the gym to train legs and arms and your hair is fried and it's cold.
Swimming is not underrated it's painful
We work harder than anyone else
You get so excited because you think your going to win then you come 3rd and yo always wish you did better.
Swimming takes patients and time
I love swim team swimming
+Emma King me too, it'S JUST GREAT
Huh? Swimming is my most awaited event every summer Olympics. I love watching the team relays.
This video is so true!! I'm also a swimmer and I will be a swimmer for all time!!
I started swimming when I was four. Up until I was 11, I swam everyday. I practiced 1-3 hours a day and had swim meets every weekend. It was hard and grueling, but I loved it more than everything. I quit a few years ago and it is one of my biggest regrets. I had gone through a period of time where I was sad and depressed. I had to choose between gymnastics and swimming. I chose gymnastics even though I wasn’t as good at it as I was at swimming. Swimming was ver physically hard but my team was my best friends. I wish I could’ve seen the future and known I could’ve done something amazing. I was actually a very good swimmer for my age. I may start diving soon though, because I love being in the water and I also like flipping and tumbling. If anyone sees this, DONT QUIT. Stay with it, especially if you love and enjoy it.
Awesome video!!! I will be sharing with the parents and swimmers from our club.
I'm a distance runner now, not a swimmer, but I swam on a half-decent team for four years and I have extremely fond memories of going from the slowest girl in my age group to the fastest kid on the team. [Mostly because all the good people left, though.] The pool still means a lot to me.
This video couldn't be any more true!
I do swimming and this meant the world to me. I cried.
One of the Best descriptions I have heard yet
I started RMSC and it has made me stronger physically and mentally! It is true that swimming is underrated and I want to get it out there.
Shout out the ISL for really transforming swimming into a good spectator sport
I’m a swimming and if your not a swimmer you will never understand this video there is so much hard work to go into swimming people don’t realise the hard work that goes into this we train so hard and put massive amounts of effort into it ❤️🏊♀️🏊♂️❤️
I swam competitive for 8 years, won a silver at regionals, and started rowing after and no joke rowing is even harder
I appreciate this. Even 7 years later! I'm 21 and still swimming. No not elite but it is the best thing in my life.
I get up at 4:40 most mornings to train for swimming
same it sucks
tash jorgo everyone does
if you think it sucks why still do it ? im a swimmer myself and i love it
Ελευθερία Μ I don't but that's cause I'm in middle school and our morning practices end too late for my school
SuperLister97 Most swimmers have a hate/love relationship with it.
What frustrates me most is that people don't think it's a sport...like a few people told me a sport has to have a ball in it😒
Oh dear, that's very worrying.
One of the team members at my school is a wrestler, and did swim to condition. He went back to the team when season started and was doing CIRCLES around the other wrestlers. Many people wanted to try it out then
I train modern pentathlon, it includes swimming, so I can relate to this video. It is hard. It is very underrated
(this video is 5 years old and im only seeing it now lol) and i was watching pretty little liars and i gotta say, the most unrealistic part was when the whole school goes to the swim meets. the only people at meets are swimmers, coaches, and parents. hell, my parents didnt even go to one.
Man would I like to meet someone who thinks swimming or any other sport is underrated. Respect to all sportsmen & sportswomen in any sport at all!!!
As I swimmer I can say all of this is true. Though I'm also one of those types that has tried to quit but gets pulled back to the sport over and over. I look forward to getting into the pool everyday, the workouts, the team. I feel relaxed while swimming and I'll put a song on repeat in my head of think of someone I like or how happy I make my family that they have a competitive athlete in the family. Though swimming is really mental. My coach makes us do 12x25 FR sprints on 0:40, this is to work towards our goal time but have lots of rest between sprints. It's hard, it's mental, it's torture that I hate to see drawn on the board every month. But it's awesome to see my time drop. My fastest 25m Fr sprint is 0:14. That would make a 29-30 second 50m time adding a flip turn. But he tells us to skip a lap if we don't make it within our goal time range and I've pushed myself to the point I zoned out from adrenaline and just laid on the deck for a moment, I didn't hear him when he asked me a question.
As a 11 year old swimmer:
I have had ups and downs, it’s my heart and my soul .
I started when I was 6/7 . I will probably start more training after vacation since I will be a junior.
I get really stressed when I have to swim with other people
But you keep growing and speeding up. When people cheer I don’t hear it. But if they wave or other things I get so much motivation and swim more and more. A coach also helps a lot because they will tell you how to get the best out yourself.
When I’m at a competition it is sometimes really weird. You go to a new pool. Get your muscles warm and swim .
I love what I do . And I have so many people/friends that have the same goal and we go for together
People say it’s really easy . I also help with giving swimming lessons for 4 year olds. And it will never be easy easy but try your best stay motivated. Reach for your goal
cool video, thanks for making and uploading.
I learned how to by watching TH-cam since last year after I retired. The resolve to dip into outdoor pool in California winter is not easy for me. I had to talk myself to do it if I wanted to practice daily. Being able to cut the water effortlessly and glide like a fish is therapeutic.
To me, swimming is a fun sport that requires a lot of time and dedication.
Thank you so much for making this video and now I can show it to my friends saying how hard swimimg actually is I'm 11 and I'm in gold and it's super duper hard to get up here and I totally admire people in the Olympics I want to try to be there for that going to be a lot of hard work
Underrated, but swimming will not wreck your body like other "revenue generating" sports do. It's a lifetime sport and I personally prefer health over monetary gains.
Nah it will fuck your body up, shoulders and knees in the competitive scene
I'm 14 and have been swimming for 8 years and my knees are already starting to get jacked from breaststroke haha so try again
...over half of our swim team is injured, six people were out the other day for shoulder problems, I hurt my knee so badly at a meet a few days ago had to be on crutches all weekend and still swam at the next meet a few days later damaging my knee. Trust me it takes a toll.
speak for yourself my hair is probably permanently damaged from the chlorine
even though the LAC pool has very little chlorine
Martin R. It’ll mess up your knees and lungs. If it’s an inside pool, chances are the ventilation isn’t too great and you’ll develop asthma.
I found swimming for fitness at 62. It helped me find my self-esteem and to rebuild a quality of life through the mental and physical strength I have gained. People who do not do it do not understand what it takes for me to swim a mile 5 days a week.
I’m a swimmer and all my friends think it’s easy... i love this video
I am from Scotland and i swim in Glasgow swim team and most of our time trials are at 6:00 am and we train during all year and during winter, early spring and late autumn (fall) we only train and have a time trial every Saturday and training every other day and it seems a lot different to many American swim teams
I have been swimming pretty much my whole (short) life, and I love everything about this sport. However I think one of the main issues with why swimming is not as popular as many others is simply because it is not as visually stimulating as other sports - especially because most don't fully appreciate the skill it takes to become a top swimmer unless you have a decent amount of experience
I love comp swim!! I have been doing it since I was 5
I grew up in a family full of swimmers, we were taught to swim before we started walking and I started summer league at around 5 or 4, and club at 6.... but I quit at 9.... and I was good.
And now at 15 I'm sooo behind my age group and have so much homework that'll make it nearly impossible to do club rather then high school and summer league (they are jokes). I miss it. My sister is really fast and is 13, because she continued. But hey... I'm better at breaststroke.!
Swam for years moved to triathalon and competed internationally stopped when I was 25 and concentrated on my business working 90 hour weeks made lots of money and even though I was only a fairly decent regional swimmer still gotta credit it for all my discipline and think it’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done
This video randomly came into my feed and I realized that I swam many times in that pool and I swam for Niagara University for a short while!!
The Best The Healthiest The Most Disciplined Sport Of All Sports, No Bones Injuries Like Other Sports, It Keeps Your Lifestyle So Challenging, Disciplined And When It Comes To Making Decisions You Make The Best Decisions. I Love 🏊🏼🏊🏿🏊🏽 It's Not My Sport But It's In My Blood. 👌🏾🇰🇪
Who is here durning quarantine so all the pools are shut down so you haven't swam or seeing or team for weeks and is now on the verge if tears cuz you miss it so much
You guys got swimming on point 👌
I hate when people say "I have three practices this week, at 9 am, for like an HOUR." I'm just over here with seven 2.5 hour practices a week at 6 am
Can we all just appreciate the people u met and just rlly want to be in a relationship with cause they fit as
Swimming and volleyball are very underappreciated
Most of my close friends are from swim, and are on the same team as me (same group too) so whenever we want to hangout it works bc we all have swim
Swimming is the only sport where u get yelled at for breathing
I love this
At one point I considered "retiring" during middle school, but decided not to because I've spent so much time growing up swimming that the concept of not having to go training and not be competitive is just alien to me.
Lets just say...swimming wrecked my hair
I was a national level swimmer and on world rankings as a teen for 800 free. I’m now nearing 50 and occasionally go to a pool. I’ve still got my technique but no endurance! If I’m doing laps I still get ‘raced’ by younger males over 25m who are not ‘swimmers’ thinking they can beat a female. They can’t. The guys in my team never treated the girls any different, we were all swimmers. It’s one of the best skills I’ve ever learnt. I don’t tell many people I’ve been a swimmer because most people have no clue about it. I’m so glad swimming was my sport, it’s a skill that’s difficult to master but also difficult to lose. Once a swimmer, always a swimmer!
I’m 13 and I compete outside my country about swimming I love it but I work very hard I have 9 years dealing eith swimming everyday❤️🏅🏊🏼♀️
Swimming is like cross country/track in the aspect of training, going distances, sprinting, needing the mental game to push through.. except you can only breath sometimes and you are in a foreign element.
Swimming seems simple. You swim back and forth.. but just like anything, there is much more to it than that. Basketball sounds simple to for anybody who has never played. You throw a basketball in a hoop and do that more times than your competitors to win. Obviously, for anybody that knows anything about basketball, there is profound amount more to the game that takes years and years to learn and to actually get good at. Swimming is the same way. There are many more things to learn and practice than tons of people would ever think.
Much respect to fellow swimmers and all athletes in any sport that work hard and progress and improve.
I LOVE SWIMMING!!!!
Been on a swim team for 6 years going strong
My friend keeps saying that she could easily do my practice... I have been swimming for 6 years😂💜
This video made me sad. I miss swimming since Covid stopped everything. I had qualified for summer championships.
We're practicing everyday for at least 1 and half hours and mornings and people just don't know how hard it is
Honestly those people who have been swimming for their whole life should be faster than those who start later. But what you need to realize is that when your 21 and swimming in college those extra 2-3 years don't mean a thing except maybe a millisecond. Plus some people have a natural talent such as Michael Phelps.
good video the facts in this video is true
Been swimming for 10years but in the last 9months Ive been going atleast once a week. Now I can swim 5k in two hours and have put on over a stone of muscle
you think swimming is an underrated sport? Try synchronized swimming
Oh my god I know I've tried most water sports
Water polo- I'm not a aggresive person at all
Diving-didn't really like it
Competitive- did it from when I was 3-11 years old every day (I was put under a lot of pressure to do it because my mom did)
Syncro- is my new passion and this is my 3rd year and I'm doing very well but it is easily the hardest
Holly swimming is still harder
I think they’re a different kind of hard
I agree with Beens, synchronized swimming gains a lot of respect from me, a competitive swimmer, because of the duration you hold your breath and the grace in which you move in the water. Unfortunately, I personally believe it is not as hard as competitive swimming- in terms of intensity, frequency and physical demands.
Competitive Swimmer Here
Soooooo truuuuuuue!!! I do synchronized swimming and it's the same thing.
I was on my middle and high school teams in school. I wasn’t the fastest, but considering i was obese for my age my times were actually really good. I remember my final Championship meet and when I got home I felt like a piece of me just died thinking I wouldnt swim competitively. So i thought. Just sad. 4 years later I lose weight, swim at Masters meets hopefully some USA meets soon and am currently part of a team that just loves the sport and have fun with it. I go swim at 6AM and train harder knowing that I still got a whole lot left in me. And I’m just getting started 😈😈😈
I am a swimmer on a swim team sometimes it is brutal. But I know that if I push through the pain I will gain something
Swimmers swim
Be you
Keep trying
Pain=Gain
I wanna like this video 1000000 times 😭
I love swimming ^w^. I started when I was 4 years old and stopped when I was 7 years old(I had lessons). The last years (now I'm 16,5)I don't swim so much, for exaple: this summer in Juli, I had to do Freestyle in the sea without stopping for 30min. only for 10 days. Now at school we go for swimming(we started the last days of Oct.) we have to do Breast for 20 min. and I was faster than anyone!!! How can that be? I didn't swam for 2,5 months and I thaught that I would be the slowest...........And at scool we swim 1 time in 2 weeks!
So tru !!!!