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Day: October 23, 2025
How To Stop Your Legs Sinking Whilst Swimming | The Most Common Swim Mistake?
– Right, I’ve got a question for you. When you’re swimming and you look down, can you see your toes almost dragging along the bottom of the pool? – Okay I’m going to put money on this one. I think that the most common problem for newbie swimmers is getting their legs to float on the surface. Now I know there’s lots of other problems to overcome when you’re learning to swim.
But if you are a cyclist or a runner who’s new into the sport then I can pretty much guarantee that you’re going to struggle to get your legs to stay on the surface. – Yeah, but on the plus side once you’ve solved this issue your swimming is suddenly going to become a heck of a lot easier and far more enjoyable. So today we’re going to be sharing with you a few tips and pointers to get your feet away from the bottom of the pool and more in line with the rest of your body on the surface.
Triathletes tend to be more susceptible to sinky legs than others. As running and in particular cycling promote more muscle mass in the lower body compared to the upper.
And then combine this with the fact that triathletes on the whole have a lower body fat percentage than the general population. And I’m afraid this problem does seem to be worse for men compared to us women. As apparently, we’re quite good at floating. – Well, those are the aspects that we can’t really control but there are a number of other things that we can perhaps see, our head position, our catch, our rotation and even an inefficient kick can all be rectified. Let’s start at the other end with your head.
Now put your body like a seesaw. So, if one end goes up, the other end must go down.
And if your head is too high, then automatically your hips and legs are going to sink, making it much harder to keep your body in a horizontal position and your legs close to the surface. Then if you flip that around and have your head too far down or buried into the water, you could actually run the risk of your hips and bottom being too high in the water to be efficient. As well as obviously creating too much drag at the front of your stroke.
Play around with positioning your head lower in the water and feel the effect on your hips and legs. Aim to look one to two meters ahead of you or at a roughly 45 degree angle. And think of the waterline as coming just above your hairline as a guide. – Now this one is closely related to head position because we do have a poor or limited rotation with our stroke. What we might find happening is that we feel the need to lift our head up a little bit higher out of the water to clear the water to take a breath.
So, this in turn is going to end up with our legs sinking down in the water every time you want to take a breath. So, if we can improve our rotation, it’s going to help to make us stroke a little bit smoother and help to get our body in a slightly more neutral position in the water. So the six kick one pull drill can really help with this rotation. Start with one arm extended and one arm by your side. Turn your body to face the wall or lane rope with the extended arm being underneath and the resting arm facing the ceiling.
Take six kicks in this position and then pull with the extended arm whilst taking the other to the front and rotate onto the other side. Repeat this down the rest of the lane. Now in triathlon obviously, we don’t want to tire our legs too much given that we do have a cycle and run to come.
So, we really wouldn’t recommend you kicking as hard as you can for the full duration of your swim. That said, it does really help to balance our stroke and also aid in that propulsion to a certain degree.
– Yeah, and the propulsion phase from the kick comes mainly from that downward pressure of your lower leg and your foot. And this counteracts and helps naturally lift your hips and make it easier to keep your legs close to the surface. If you’re swimming with no kick however, then it’s going to be pretty much impossible to get your legs into that horizontal position. So, you need to experiment and find the two or four beat kick that’s going to give you maximum return for minimum effort. – Yeah, and by doing some kick with fins can really help to relax our ankles which can often be a big issue with people out there and actually is a real key element to an efficient kick.
So, with your kick you really want to make sure that it’s quite a small movement.
It’s a subtle bend from the knee and we’re getting a lot of that power from our hips and our thighs. And try and think that almost like our feet are acting like flippers. The front of your stroke will also have an impact on the other end, your legs. Now the catch is obviously the first part of the stroke and it’s vital for getting hold of the water.
And your hand is placing a downwards and a backwards pressure during that movement. And it’s that downward pressure that actually is going to naturally help to lift your body and give you a much better chance of preventing your hips and legs from sinking.
Including some sculling drills into your training can help with this phase of your stroke. For this one place a pull buoy between your legs to help with the buoyancy. And it also allows you to focus purely on your arms and hands.
Now with your arms extended in front of your face, a very slight bend in the elbow and slight flex of the wrist, fingers together, you want to practice moving your hands from side to side like this. A useful way to explain this is imagine a pile of sand in front of you and you’re making two mounds by sweeping over the top.
It should move you forwards as you’re applying a downward and backward pressure to the water, but it will be slow. This is an instant yet, admittedly only a temporary solution to sinking legs, but popping on a wetsuit can make all the differences. Neoprene is less dense than water so it’s naturally going to help you float.
And you can even get wetsuits with thicker panels around the hips and the legs which are really going to aid that better body position.
– Which is all well and good for a cold-water swim but if we end up training or racing in a pool or even in warmer outdoor water and it ends up being a non-wetsuit legal swim, then we could find ourselves in trouble. Because if we become too reliant on this added buoyancy from a wetsuit, then it could even end up exasperating these issues of sinking legs. Now again this is another temporary training aid that can only be used in training, not in racing. But it does tend to be many triathletes’ best friend.
Phrases included. And when we place this between our legs it automatically lifts our hips with no effort from yourself. – Yeah, it can be a great benefit for training as it automatically puts the user in that better position as you said. And also allows them to focus purely on the arm stroke. But it is still important to remember that you need to include a certain amount of swimming unaided as well.
There is no magic answer but a lot of small factors that if corrected will make a significant difference to your overall body position and reducing those sinking legs or just change your stroke dramatically. So it really is worth putting that effort in now. – Yeah, absolutely. Now if you have enjoyed today’s video, please do hit that thumbs up button. And if you would like to see more videos from GTN you click on the globe, subscribe to the channel and hit that little bell icon down there and you’d be notified when all our new videos come out.
And if you’d like to see some top tips from super swimmer Lucy Charles, you can see that by clicking just down here.
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Raising 10,000 Bees (in my home)
Here are 10,000 bees, and over the next hundred days they’ll live in my home. But becoming a hive means fighting fear, death and war. Their survival means everything to the queen, to the planet. And now, to me. The only problem… I’ve never done this before. Oh, no, no, no, that one just stung me. Look at him.
If I could find the queen, the rest of the bees will follow me home. But there’s a catch. They all look the same. They all look the same. The bees will do anything to protect their queen.
She is the one who started this. And she is the only one who can finish it. Dude. What? And then I noticed it.
They weren’t just flying. They were marching. Marching to their queen. Queen, Queen. Queen.
Queen. Queen. After an hour of pain, I had finally found her. The leader of the hive. But my journey as a beekeeper has only just begun.
And with the queen captured, the bees made their way inside. But when I brought them home, I knew they would not be safe for long. Too many bees in too little space. I didn’t have much time.
I decided to turn my cabinet into a beehive.
A tube lets them travel between the inside and outside world. But to move the bees in, I have to wait for nightfall. Bees cannot fly in the dark, so this should be easy. The first step is to get the queen. But they were extremely defensive.
I have to be careful not to cause alarm. One wrong move and the whole colony will panic.
So, I gently placed the queen into the hive. The rest of the bees should follow her scent.
They didn’t move, didn’t care.
So I tried scooping them into the entrance. But this caused them to panic. Help, help, help! The bees had no idea where to go. I forgot to zip up the bee suit.
They swarmed the cameras, the lights, and even our heads. Yeah, I hear them in my head. The bees were lost and couldn’t find their queen. Oh, hello. But a few began fanning their wings.
They are spreading the scent of the queen. The others could smell it. And pretty soon the bees were marching. Marching to their queen. It was almost unbelievable.
I decided to let them be overnight and over the coming days, their lives are about to change forever, thanks to the internet browser opera. Wait, what? When I began my bee research, I had over 40 tabs open, which is a total mess.
But I can use operas built in AI tool, Aria, to instantly organize my tabs. Whoa.
And they can be expanded or collapsed with a single click, but it even caught this bee’s attention if I take a picture of her. I can use Aria’s image recognition tool to analyze and explain the photo, and Aria can make custom images as well. You wish that was you. And thanks to the floating music player, I can control my music without interrupting my browsing. Opera lets you choose from seven different streaming platforms, and you can listen to music even outside the browser.
But what we really love is their video pop out feature. I can watch YouTube while studying the bees, and all you have to do is click the link in my description to download opera for free today. And by day four, their empire was underway. They design it to serve their queen. She is the only one in the nest who can lay eggs, but without food she cannot lay.
So she sends her workers to find some. They will fly up to three miles in search of food. They collect nectar and pollen to bring back to the hive, but some of the bees started to swarm. They were swarming the same plastic. I used to catch the queen.
It still carried her scent. But inside our bees were going to save them. They begin spraying pheromones into the air. And it caused the other piece to rally. Every last bee made their way into the hive, and by day ten, the queen was beginning to lay her very first eggs.
They are the foundation to her future empire. But the eggs are in danger. A hive beetle. And it was not alone. These beetles eat and kill the eggs, so the bees will try and stop them.
But their armor is too strong. And as if things couldn’t get any worse. A wasp colony invaded the hive. They had come from a nearby nest and the bees were overrun.
They had no choice but to save the queen, so they rallied to form a protective wall around her, and then they began to fight back.
They are fighting for their queen. But this would not be a victory, for most of the colony had died. Only yesterday they were safe. But today they are nearly extinct. But bees are one of the few animals that respect their day, so the remaining few build a graveyard.
They are the number one most intelligent insect on our planet. But before they could recover, they must face a new kind of threat. Parasites. This is the Varroa destructor mite. And they have taken over the hive.
They have been on the bees since day one. And only now, when the bees are at their weakest, have they chosen to strike. Even the queen wasn’t safe. And each day more and more are killed. And on their own, the bees are doomed.
Instead of leaving them to rot, I built a graveyard of my own.
They may have died today, but they will feed the bees of tomorrow. I now have two choices. Let nature run its course or there is option two. I am going to save them, but it will be extremely dangerous because this is an acrylic acid vaporizer.
The fumes are deadly to me, but also deadly to the mites. But after all the dust settled, I noticed dozens and dozens of dead mites. The operation was a success, and the Queen’s eggs are all beginning to hatch. By day 30 they had become larva. Soon pupa.
And by day 41, the first bee was beginning to emerge.
She carefully chews her way through the cocoon until she was able to take her very first step onto land, and over the next 60 days, the bees went from a colony to an empire. They had colonized the entire hive. But I’m so used to living with them that I forgot. This is crazy.
But it’s not for everyone. I mean, it’s pretty cool.
This is really nice. Did this come with the house? And it was about time to move them outside where they belong.
But I took one piece of honeycomb for myself so I can try their honey for the very first time… Bro That’s actually so insane. And who better to taste the honey than the very creature who made it? Check out this video for more and I’ll see you in the next one.
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