Help me learn to love my snorkel

I bought a Finis snorkel a few years back but I just do not enjoy swimming with it. I find I hold my breath more per 25 than I do in an underwater or hypoxic 25. I haven't even tried doing a flip turn with it yet. Anyone else go through a similar adjustment phase when they started working with their snorkel? How did you get used to it? Like you, I struggled when I got mine about 2 years ago and so I just ignored it until just recently when my coach started giving me sets that I needed to use it for. I'm finally starting to develop a level of comfort with it while swimming easy and have even learned to flip with it. For me, I think it was just a matter of forcing myself to use it. I started by doing pull sets with it and have gradually progressed to swimming without any equipment. The only advice I can offer is to just hang in there and it should get easier as you use it more.

I bought a Finis snorkel a few years back but I just do not enjoy swimming with it. I find I hold my breath more per 25 than I do in an underwater or hypoxic 25. I haven't even tried doing a flip turn with it yet. Anyone else go through a similar adjustment phase when they started working with their snorkel? How did you get used to it? Like you, I struggled when I got mine about 2 years ago and so I just ignored it until just recently when my coach started giving me sets that I needed to use it for. I'm finally starting to develop a level of comfort with it while swimming easy and have even learned to flip with it. For me, I think it was just a matter of forcing myself to use it. I started by doing pull sets with it and have gradually progressed to swimming without any equipment. The only advice I can offer is to just hang in there and it should get easier as you use it more.