hi! everyone i am from colorado

Welcome to BT Amana.

I'm not the greatest swimmer in the world and can only offer what's worked for me.

I used to get completely exhausted swimming, which is odd since my aerobic fitness is above average.  What I learned was that I, like most new swimmers, started too fast and kept trying to go faster, rather than forcinging yourself to slow down and find a rhythm.  Once I was able to slow down it seemed like I could go forever. 

Just my 2cents.

Welcome.... Let me ask you this question: when you’re in the water do you feel like you’re a piranha on crack? That is what I was told that I looked like 6 months ago when I first started swimming… my arms were turning over so quick in the water that I was running out of steam and my breathing was just out of control.

From a beginner swimmer my thoughts:

• Spend time in the water even if that’s just using the kickboard
• Slow down
• Join a masters swim (masters = adult) that have multiple levels of swimmers and its usually cheap.
• Push yourself (for about a week the furthest I could swim was 200 yards so I decided that I would make myself swim 210 yards the next time (baby steps) then no matter how bad my body said STOP STOP I was going to push through the pain I finally surpassed the 200 mark easily and now feel that I could swim miles)