Refresher swimming lessons as an adult

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I feel a bit daft even thinking about enquiring with my local pool to see if they'll have me in their adult lessons because everybody that I've mentioned this to says that swimming is like riding a bike and you don't forget how to do it.

I did a good 10 years of swimming lessons as a kid, and I was a strong, confident swimmer, loved going swimming, but I haven't swam for about 20 years, since I was in my early teens. I can't imagine being able to hop into a pool and just being able to do something that I haven't done for so long.

Has anybody done some sort of refresher swimming lessons as an adult? Did you find that actually you did know/remember how to swim?

Didn't want to leave you unanswered although Ive not personally done this. However, my brother did and he is a bit nervous in everyday life but he really really enjoyed it. He could swim before but not well. Said there were all ages and types of people doing the lessons. Wasn't cheap though!

My daughter late 20s just finished some one to one lessons. She had lessons when younger but wasn't very confident in the water. It's given her the confidence to start going swimming on her own now and practice.

I recently went swimming after a number of years and was a bit disappointed to discover that although I didn't drown I did have problems with my feet floating up and my head going down and it certainly wasn't as easy as I remember. So I'm also on the look out for remedial adult swimming lessons.

Hi, check out the sessions offered at your local pool. There might be sessions with an instructor on poolside. Or quieter sessions where you can build up your confidence. In amy case, even.very experienced swimmers benefit from coaching so having lessons wouldn't be a waste.of.time.

Ive done this. I could swim quite long distances but head up breaststroke. I learnt crawl and am now getting quite good at it. Not fast but can swim a mile of crawl and am having more lessons to swim in open water.... triathlons next!

My local pool does adult lessons . I'd like to go myself . I can swim , but would definitely benefit from being taught proper technique .
I could do with help with confidence , knowing how to recover from having a face full of water without having a coughing fit.

I did it many years ago, I could always swim but my technique was rubbish, went for refresher lessons, think I had eight lessons, it was great, go for it OP, it really got me back into swimming.

I did it last year... It was really good. Just ask about adult lessons. I am now regularly swimming and have joined a club

I have always been a goid, confident swimmer since childhood. I had some coaching a while back, absolute game changer wrt stroke and technique.

Go for it, your local pool will have swim coaches.

Pleased to hear so many people have done it! Genuinely everybody I've mentioned being unsure about my swimming ability to goes 'of course you can swim' because I learnt as a child. Think I'll drop the leisure centre an email. I've had a Google for 1 to 1 lessons and there doesn't seem to be anything near me.

My main motivation is being able to do things like water parks or a kayak tour on holiday without worrying I'd be utterly screwed if I ended up out of my depth or lost my buoyancy aid somehow so I'm hopeful it won't take loads and loads of lessons to get that level of confidence. A triathlon does sound fun though.