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Then give up! Every single post you've made on this forum is you over-analyzing everything. As far as I can tell, you did not even start with the basics, just jumped to more advanced concepts and got frustrated because you haven't become "elite." And *then* you went for "few private lessons." You do not appear to want to bother with the process of actually learning to swim correctly, and you cannot swim fast without swimming correctly, no matter what philosophy of swim training you choose to use. Swimming is not running. Humans did not evolve to swim the four competitive swimming strokes like we did to move efficiently on land. The movements do not come naturally for the large, large, large majority. It's like... trying to teach yourself piano for 3 months and being frustrated because you can't play Sonata Pathetique. My n=1: I took swimming lessons all the way back from parent/kid lessons at like age 2. I failed whatever level backstroke was taught 3 times. I started competitive swimming at age 9 (remember, that's *7 years* after I started swim lessons!) and was *slow*. I didn't get halfway decent until I was a senior in high school (that's age 18 - *16 years* after I started swim lessons!). And that's learning as a kid with a malleable nervous system. It isn't easy. It isn't fast. There aren't any shortcuts. You're teaching you body and brain to move in ways they aren't familiar with. But by all means, if your options are either somehow make swimming come naturally, or give up, then give up. this... swim lessons. started swimming a little middle school swimming at 10/11. Sucked SO BADLY that for TWO STRAIGHT YEARS I received the 'most improved award." Kept plugging away, added year round club swimming, lessons, camps and crosstraining and by 17 I was quick enough to go to a small/mid D-1 school on a combo athletic/academic scholarship. I'm now swimming again 14 years later and have been in the water the SAME amount of time (6 months) and my progress is barely perceptible, I am not elite by any stretch and can only hope to do well at meets in 2020. Chill. Out. So. Much.

Then give up! Every single post you've made on this forum is you over-analyzing everything. As far as I can tell, you did not even start with the basics, just jumped to more advanced concepts and got frustrated because you haven't become "elite." And *then* you went for "few private lessons." You do not appear to want to bother with the process of actually learning to swim correctly, and you cannot swim fast without swimming correctly, no matter what philosophy of swim training you choose to use. Swimming is not running. Humans did not evolve to swim the four competitive swimming strokes like we did to move efficiently on land. The movements do not come naturally for the large, large, large majority. It's like... trying to teach yourself piano for 3 months and being frustrated because you can't play Sonata Pathetique. My n=1: I took swimming lessons all the way back from parent/kid lessons at like age 2. I failed whatever level backstroke was taught 3 times. I started competitive swimming at age 9 (remember, that's *7 years* after I started swim lessons!) and was *slow*. I didn't get halfway decent until I was a senior in high school (that's age 18 - *16 years* after I started swim lessons!). And that's learning as a kid with a malleable nervous system. It isn't easy. It isn't fast. There aren't any shortcuts. You're teaching you body and brain to move in ways they aren't familiar with. But by all means, if your options are either somehow make swimming come naturally, or give up, then give up. this... swim lessons. started swimming a little middle school swimming at 10/11. Sucked SO BADLY that for TWO STRAIGHT YEARS I received the 'most improved award." Kept plugging away, added year round club swimming, lessons, camps and crosstraining and by 17 I was quick enough to go to a small/mid D-1 school on a combo athletic/academic scholarship. I'm now swimming again 14 years later and have been in the water the SAME amount of time (6 months) and my progress is barely perceptible, I am not elite by any stretch and can only hope to do well at meets in 2020. Chill. Out. So. Much.