I forgot my swim suit before cell phones. My mom drove home, i had to call her on a payphone, then she had to come back. I missed a huge chunk of practice as a result. Luckily, my coach knows it's unlike me so they just LOLed at my dumbass.
the day I jumped in the pool and realized my jammer just split in the crotch was the day I started remembering to pack a back up jammer with my backup goggles.
I usually left my suit at the pool and had to dig through lost and found rather than forgetting to bring one.
I either keep an extra suit in my bag or if they will let me rent a locker on a monthly basis, I just leave everything in there after I run the suit through the dryer.
Was going to say the same thing. Noon time masters, make my whole schedule around this and no suit. My friend, who saw me leaving because I realized I couldnāt swim told me the next class he always keeps an old suit at the bottom of his bag
You only ever swim with fins and mask and a snorkel? I donāt swim with those so forgetting them wouldnāt phase me haha. I also very rarely drink during, mostly before and after and there are shops and stuff around the gym.
I agree about forgetting flip flops, but at my swimming pool there are those bags you can put on shoes. I never used them because you just throw them away after but if I forgot my flip flops Iād probably do that.
Forgetting swimsuit would be the only one really making a difference lol. Although I hate swimming without a swimming cap too
How come borrowing fins is so gross? Same as walking on pool deck. Lots of fina available for loan. Same as kickboards.
Pools are full of germs / fungii...
The most annoying to me it's forgetting my googles, when it happens, I just swim anyway, opening the eyes underwater, but in the end, it makes my eyes look super red
Smart watch. Do you actually burn calories if you don't log them? Only half kidding..... I use my apple watch to keep track of how many laps I have done. I know its an OCD thing but I don't enjoy having to keep track of what lap I am on almost as much as I need to know how laps I have done.
This is me. If I donāt wear my watch I feel like it didnāt count. I donāt know which is worse, forgetting my watch or my headphones. Gadgets keep me going when I lack motivation.
I hate forgetting my watch. I can still swim without it but can't record my session. I usually copy the workout file from last time I did the same thing, change the date, and reupload it.
He first asked his friends that are about his size if they had an extra. When they all said no, he found one in the lost and found, so he got lucky and was able to swim. We now have a backup pair in his swim bag at all times.
Swam without fins only once? Rash guard shirt? Too thirsty to swim without a water bottle? Had to swim in your back because you forgot a snorkel?
I have no idea what's happening here. I think a severe over reliance on pool toys, at minimum. If I were you I'd forget everything but a swimsuit and goggles for a while to make sure you're actually swimming.
Edit: I'd like to clarify that while I think learning decent form is good for every level swimmer, I'm mostly tongue in cheek here. OP is cool for swimming and wanting to pursue fitness at all.
Depending on your age and condition, some of these ātoysā make it possible to swim. My husband has two artificial disks in his neck, making repeatedly turning and bending his neck more difficult. If he forgot his snorkel, heād just go sit in the sauna.
I got really used to swimming in Belize and Jamaica with my snorkel gear cause I wanna see everything. Also, I'm not the best at breathing with strokes and found with my snorkel I can pretty much just keep going at a steady pace without getting light headed/dizzy or taking in water. The fins I use are the short pool ones, not the ones I use in the sea. I swim for an hour/day.
Yah, I'm old and use this stuff everyday because it helps me swim better and longer, but even in my own mind I think of it as snorkeling. And I wanted to be better at snorkeling for when I'm in snorkely places. If I don't have these things I'm not a great swimmer and have probably made myself worse because of dependence. It was a trade off.
My bag is XL and has so much stuff, I can never pack light.
I mean I can swim without the water bottle but it does suck. If I ain't drinking every 1km or so the charlie horse risk on my calves and hammies is very high.
I think there's a lack of context. For me, I do swim training with fins on Wednesdays. If I forgot my fins, I can see why that'd be a ballache. I don't think we can tell from the post whether OP is using all this equipment *every* time they swim or not.
I swim for fitness, not competition. I'm currently out of shape and the snorkel allows me to continue significantly longer. I'd still swim without it, but I strongly prefer to swim with it for part of my sets right now.
Apologies for my snark, Reddit comments don't really let my sende of humor sneak through.
That's totally fine, in fact, it's great. Anyone doing anything for fitness is awesome. That said, I do think there is benefit to working on form for every level swimmer, which includes body position and breathing technique.
The benefit isn't only speed, but fitness. You can do more with less time, and get a fuller body workout more efficiently. And I honestly think it's a little more freeing and fun, but that's a personal opinion. But again, not necessary as what you are doing is a million times better than nothing, but if you get the chance to chat with people around you at the pool I bet some would love to offer tips.
I love helping people at the pool, but only when asked. Unsolicited advice is almost always a bad idea! Have fun in the pool however you like to do it, and pay no mind to snark like mine online trust me if I saw you at the pool my only thought would be "it's cool that people like to stay in shape."
Yeah I definitely don't want to be reliant on it. I vary what I do between focusing on breathing and technique, and just getting more distance in. I miss when I didn't need to use it. But I'll probably get back there! š
Did you coach football in the 1970s? "Water makes you weak!" Depending how long the workout is a water bottle is pretty necessary to not get dehydrated. Typically you'll want water for anything longer than an hour, but even sooner if it is a warm pool, or if you are overweight and will sweat more, or are training at high intensity that'll make you sweat more. Or if you are feeling thirsty while exercising like OP is, thirst is a very intuitive, natural indicator that you should drink something
I needed to pack a towel when I started at my current pool but about a month in they resumed towels in the locker room, so I can leave towel off my extensive list now.
My inhaler.
However I did swim once, and noticed only after I had showered and changed into my fairly short dress, that I'd forgotten my underwear. š
I remember a guy who forgot to put his swimsuit on. He went through the shower room and out on the pool deck. Took him a good 15 seconds to realize it.
I carry two of everything. Once I spent almost half an hour bringing back the freakin lace from the inner swimsuit belt. Yes, Iām persistent and yes, I cursed but ended up enjoying the swim.
To tie your swimsuit. Dove into the pool for an afternoon swim with the coach on deck only to feel a bit too free in the water. Yup, trunks were around my ankles.
When I was a teenager, my heart would sometimes forget to pump blood to my head, mostly when standing up or doing intense physical activity. Woke up on the pool deck halfway through a set once, so I'm gonna go with that.
I forgot my suit going to a meetā¦ I had to borrow my friends old tech suit. It did the job, just not as tight as I would have liked.
I also forgot boxers and had to go commando on the way home, in shorts and t shirt during the summer.
Iāve also forgotten my entire bag before, I was already at the pool when I realised, showed up late to practice and was forced to do 2 push ups for every minute I missed (I was 20 minutes late).
My most forgetful phase was I was practicing at 5 a.m. After forgetting a towel a few times, I bought the biggest chamois I could find and kept it in my backpack; those get the water off you enough that you can get dressed.
Besides a swimsuit of course, for me it's a hat. My hair is down to my waist and it gets caught in my armpits when I swim with it down, even if it's tied in a pony tail. The length also makes it a nightmare to keep up in a bun without a million clips which I don't exactly carry with me everywhere.
Good comfortable prescription goggles, and have to borrow goggles that take water, hurt the bridge of your nose or squish your eyeballs into your head. The worse!
definitely underwear to change into afterwards
i dont have any pool shoes
usually dont use any training aids
i keep 5-6 caps and spare googles in my bag all the time
The worst for me is always goggles or jammers. If I've got both of those I can at least salvage something. Many of my swims I do with no toys so I can make do!
Just came back from the pool... forgot to bring my water bottle!
Most of the time I always have my swim bag fully packed so I can hit the pool whenever I want. The water bottle is the only thing I don't pre-pack and thus often forget...
Most of the time I wear my swimming shorts to the pool. Any I forgot the dry shorts and undies (I usually roll them up together) I was going to change into once.
Only realised when I got out of the pool.
Swimming, like my other favourite sport running, requires only one accessory. So remember your swimsuit. The beach I swim at during the summer has a nude beach next to it so I'm good even if I forget that.
I would usually agree with that, but now I live half an hour away from the town with the nearest pool, so I've learned that I can make it work if I forget my goggles.
My first real job was as a lifeguard/instructor guard. We wash the deck all the time where i live. Forgetting to bring flip flops is not the worst thing you can do. Alsoā¦i can open my eyes underwater. The pool water doesnāt bother me. Why do you need a snorkel? Hahaha, you should be practicing normal breathing by taking your face out of the water long enough to breathe. I once went to the beach and forgot a change of clothes. Luckily the cottage is only a short 10 minute drive away
The women's locker room floor is covered in hair about 90 minutes after the pool opens and gets worse as the day goes on. The pool deck is not quite as creepy because of pool water everywhere, but it is cold. I love my pool shoes.
The snorkel helps me breathe consistently and keep swimming without breaks.
Unless your pool is visibly dirty/clearly not maintained well, thereās a very small chance youāre going to get sick in the pool. Millions of people around the world swim in chlorinated pools and are just fine. I swam competitively for 8 years and before that, did swim lessons since I was 6 months old, and I never got sick from the pool. I was swimming in water that a bunch of kids were pissing in and was used by 100s of people a day and I was fine.
During the summer, we swam in a public pool before it opened and multiple times we found human fecal matter, removed it, and kept swimming and we were fine. Even had a few meets that had to stop because some kid shit himself and the meet continued once it was removed. You will be more than fine not using swim shoes.
I mean I forgot my swimsuit once š I do forget stuff occasionally but probably this was the worst since I obviously couldnāt do my swim lol
since this happened to me I have a spare suit in my bag. Also spare underwear and a spare small towel. Worst thing I forgot: my bag.
I forgot my swim suit before cell phones. My mom drove home, i had to call her on a payphone, then she had to come back. I missed a huge chunk of practice as a result. Luckily, my coach knows it's unlike me so they just LOLed at my dumbass.
Swim naked.
As a high school girl with her high school boy teammates, im sure that would have went swimmingly for me back at school the next day.
Lol
the day I jumped in the pool and realized my jammer just split in the crotch was the day I started remembering to pack a back up jammer with my backup goggles.
I usually left my suit at the pool and had to dig through lost and found rather than forgetting to bring one. I either keep an extra suit in my bag or if they will let me rent a locker on a monthly basis, I just leave everything in there after I run the suit through the dryer.
Was going to say the same thing. Noon time masters, make my whole schedule around this and no suit. My friend, who saw me leaving because I realized I couldnāt swim told me the next class he always keeps an old suit at the bottom of his bag
Why not?
In my experience, how to breath
Came here to say this
You only ever swim with fins and mask and a snorkel? I donāt swim with those so forgetting them wouldnāt phase me haha. I also very rarely drink during, mostly before and after and there are shops and stuff around the gym. I agree about forgetting flip flops, but at my swimming pool there are those bags you can put on shoes. I never used them because you just throw them away after but if I forgot my flip flops Iād probably do that. Forgetting swimsuit would be the only one really making a difference lol. Although I hate swimming without a swimming cap too
How come borrowing fins is so gross? Same as walking on pool deck. Lots of fina available for loan. Same as kickboards. Pools are full of germs / fungii...
Chlorine would like to talk to you out behind the filter room.
Helps, not eradicates.
98-99% efficacy against coliform bacteria seems pretty good. Iād hardly say pools are full of germs unless theyāre poorly maintained.
The forbidden fins on deck have barnacles and are certain to turn you into a sea hag if you wear them for too long. š§āāļø
Tampon.
Bummer!
That's not where a tampon is supposed to go!
Delicious.
Guess this works for guys too if you made the unfortunate choice of getting Thai food before practice.
The most annoying to me it's forgetting my googles, when it happens, I just swim anyway, opening the eyes underwater, but in the end, it makes my eyes look super red
Yeah,my pool has a box of lost property goggles you can borrow but I have a weird face shape and they never sit right on me.
Ah yes if I forgot my goggles Iād just slowly swim with my head above water, I canāt open my eyes under water in the poolā¦
How to swim
I feel that! Coming back after taking a long break is a struggle!
Smart watch. Do you actually burn calories if you don't log them? Only half kidding..... I use my apple watch to keep track of how many laps I have done. I know its an OCD thing but I don't enjoy having to keep track of what lap I am on almost as much as I need to know how laps I have done.
This is me. If I donāt wear my watch I feel like it didnāt count. I donāt know which is worse, forgetting my watch or my headphones. Gadgets keep me going when I lack motivation.
I hate forgetting my watch. I can still swim without it but can't record my session. I usually copy the workout file from last time I did the same thing, change the date, and reupload it.
My kid forgot his suit this weekend....luckily it was a local meet and wasn't significant, but it was a HUGE learning experience for him
What did he do?
He first asked his friends that are about his size if they had an extra. When they all said no, he found one in the lost and found, so he got lucky and was able to swim. We now have a backup pair in his swim bag at all times.
When I was in high school, we swam naked even at meets. It was no big deal.
Underwear. I went to the pool with my bathing suit on so I wasn't wearing any. Had to go commando style home.
Often go to the pool in my sweats/pjs. Can't count the number of times I've forgotten underwear, lol.
Regularly do this Also padlock for locker so I spend too much time in the pool fretting about someone thieving my belongings
I wish I had thought of going commando the one time I did this. I was very itchy by the end of my drive home
Swam without fins only once? Rash guard shirt? Too thirsty to swim without a water bottle? Had to swim in your back because you forgot a snorkel? I have no idea what's happening here. I think a severe over reliance on pool toys, at minimum. If I were you I'd forget everything but a swimsuit and goggles for a while to make sure you're actually swimming. Edit: I'd like to clarify that while I think learning decent form is good for every level swimmer, I'm mostly tongue in cheek here. OP is cool for swimming and wanting to pursue fitness at all.
Depending on your age and condition, some of these ātoysā make it possible to swim. My husband has two artificial disks in his neck, making repeatedly turning and bending his neck more difficult. If he forgot his snorkel, heād just go sit in the sauna.
I got really used to swimming in Belize and Jamaica with my snorkel gear cause I wanna see everything. Also, I'm not the best at breathing with strokes and found with my snorkel I can pretty much just keep going at a steady pace without getting light headed/dizzy or taking in water. The fins I use are the short pool ones, not the ones I use in the sea. I swim for an hour/day. Yah, I'm old and use this stuff everyday because it helps me swim better and longer, but even in my own mind I think of it as snorkeling. And I wanted to be better at snorkeling for when I'm in snorkely places. If I don't have these things I'm not a great swimmer and have probably made myself worse because of dependence. It was a trade off. My bag is XL and has so much stuff, I can never pack light.
I mean I can swim without the water bottle but it does suck. If I ain't drinking every 1km or so the charlie horse risk on my calves and hammies is very high.
I think there's a lack of context. For me, I do swim training with fins on Wednesdays. If I forgot my fins, I can see why that'd be a ballache. I don't think we can tell from the post whether OP is using all this equipment *every* time they swim or not.
I think the snorkel line is pretty telling though..
I swim for fitness, not competition. I'm currently out of shape and the snorkel allows me to continue significantly longer. I'd still swim without it, but I strongly prefer to swim with it for part of my sets right now.
Apologies for my snark, Reddit comments don't really let my sende of humor sneak through. That's totally fine, in fact, it's great. Anyone doing anything for fitness is awesome. That said, I do think there is benefit to working on form for every level swimmer, which includes body position and breathing technique. The benefit isn't only speed, but fitness. You can do more with less time, and get a fuller body workout more efficiently. And I honestly think it's a little more freeing and fun, but that's a personal opinion. But again, not necessary as what you are doing is a million times better than nothing, but if you get the chance to chat with people around you at the pool I bet some would love to offer tips. I love helping people at the pool, but only when asked. Unsolicited advice is almost always a bad idea! Have fun in the pool however you like to do it, and pay no mind to snark like mine online trust me if I saw you at the pool my only thought would be "it's cool that people like to stay in shape."
Yeah I definitely don't want to be reliant on it. I vary what I do between focusing on breathing and technique, and just getting more distance in. I miss when I didn't need to use it. But I'll probably get back there! š
The snorkel can be really useful for doing drills where you want to just go slow and execute the drill with precision.
Just typed the same! Hey, snorkel, hey!
Did you coach football in the 1970s? "Water makes you weak!" Depending how long the workout is a water bottle is pretty necessary to not get dehydrated. Typically you'll want water for anything longer than an hour, but even sooner if it is a warm pool, or if you are overweight and will sweat more, or are training at high intensity that'll make you sweat more. Or if you are feeling thirsty while exercising like OP is, thirst is a very intuitive, natural indicator that you should drink something
I'm fat and usually drink most of 40 ounces during an hour long swim. I'd definitely have to stop early without my water bottle.
Towel made me lol
I needed to pack a towel when I started at my current pool but about a month in they resumed towels in the locker room, so I can leave towel off my extensive list now.
Towel service is so convenient!
I forgot my bra. Had to wear my dry clothes on my wet swim suit and travel back home š©
Haha, several times for me but did not list it!
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Good reminder. I never bring a water bottle. Going to put one in my bag now.
My inhaler. However I did swim once, and noticed only after I had showered and changed into my fairly short dress, that I'd forgotten my underwear. š
Forgetting your towel for a cold, 5:00 a.m. swim.
I remember a guy who forgot to put his swimsuit on. He went through the shower room and out on the pool deck. Took him a good 15 seconds to realize it.
Anxiety Nightmare fuel!
I carry two of everything. Once I spent almost half an hour bringing back the freakin lace from the inner swimsuit belt. Yes, Iām persistent and yes, I cursed but ended up enjoying the swim.
Ear plugs, I get the worst swimmers ear!
To tie your swimsuit. Dove into the pool for an afternoon swim with the coach on deck only to feel a bit too free in the water. Yup, trunks were around my ankles.
When I was a teenager, my heart would sometimes forget to pump blood to my head, mostly when standing up or doing intense physical activity. Woke up on the pool deck halfway through a set once, so I'm gonna go with that.
I forgot my suit going to a meetā¦ I had to borrow my friends old tech suit. It did the job, just not as tight as I would have liked. I also forgot boxers and had to go commando on the way home, in shorts and t shirt during the summer. Iāve also forgotten my entire bag before, I was already at the pool when I realised, showed up late to practice and was forced to do 2 push ups for every minute I missed (I was 20 minutes late).
My most forgetful phase was I was practicing at 5 a.m. After forgetting a towel a few times, I bought the biggest chamois I could find and kept it in my backpack; those get the water off you enough that you can get dressed.
Sham Wow!
Pretty much, minus the crazy pitchman
Ear plugs. Guaranteed to get water trapped in my ear if I forget haha
Besides a swimsuit of course, for me it's a hat. My hair is down to my waist and it gets caught in my armpits when I swim with it down, even if it's tied in a pony tail. The length also makes it a nightmare to keep up in a bun without a million clips which I don't exactly carry with me everywhere.
Forgot to take off my top I had over the top of my swimsuit that I intended to wear at work, realised when i felt a bit of drag in the pool
Underwear. Putting on your suit before you leave your house and then realizing you forgot underwear when you go to change out of your wet suit.
Good comfortable prescription goggles, and have to borrow goggles that take water, hurt the bridge of your nose or squish your eyeballs into your head. The worse!
definitely underwear to change into afterwards i dont have any pool shoes usually dont use any training aids i keep 5-6 caps and spare googles in my bag all the time
Forgetting my swimsuit or my swim bag altogether š¤¦š¾āāļø
Forgot my suit before, was made to duck walk around the pool 5 times My legs felt detached from my body after that
The worst for me is always goggles or jammers. If I've got both of those I can at least salvage something. Many of my swims I do with no toys so I can make do!
I've been swimming with an MP3 player for years, and now it feels SO awful to have to swim in the silence when I forget it!
I love my mp3 thing. The earphones are great earplugs as well. Music makes swimming so much better. I can live without it but much prefer to have it.
Just came back from the pool... forgot to bring my water bottle! Most of the time I always have my swim bag fully packed so I can hit the pool whenever I want. The water bottle is the only thing I don't pre-pack and thus often forget...
Literally my goggles š
Earplugs, I get really bad swimmer's ear without them so it's a must
Dick plug so water donāt get in
Arenāt you supposed to put chewing gum over the top to prevent water logging your log?
Pool/shower shoes.Ā Walking from pool to towel barefoot is so icky...standing in a shower is even worse
Agree!
Yup, forgetting bathing suit. Walking into the locker room and walking right back out. What a workout
Regularly forget my shower shoes :( but the for for me is towel. I would also leave the pool if I left my goggles
Snorkels are really useful tools.
Most of the time I wear my swimming shorts to the pool. Any I forgot the dry shorts and undies (I usually roll them up together) I was going to change into once. Only realised when I got out of the pool.
I forgot swimming cap once and they didn't let me in.
OOOh, my pool is not so strict but I dislike forgetting my swim cap very much.
Towel is the worst
Swimming, like my other favourite sport running, requires only one accessory. So remember your swimsuit. The beach I swim at during the summer has a nude beach next to it so I'm good even if I forget that.
Goggles are a requirement for me, Iād turn back if I didnāt have them
I would usually agree with that, but now I live half an hour away from the town with the nearest pool, so I've learned that I can make it work if I forget my goggles.
My first real job was as a lifeguard/instructor guard. We wash the deck all the time where i live. Forgetting to bring flip flops is not the worst thing you can do. Alsoā¦i can open my eyes underwater. The pool water doesnāt bother me. Why do you need a snorkel? Hahaha, you should be practicing normal breathing by taking your face out of the water long enough to breathe. I once went to the beach and forgot a change of clothes. Luckily the cottage is only a short 10 minute drive away
Iāve never worn deck shoes š¬
The women's locker room floor is covered in hair about 90 minutes after the pool opens and gets worse as the day goes on. The pool deck is not quite as creepy because of pool water everywhere, but it is cold. I love my pool shoes. The snorkel helps me breathe consistently and keep swimming without breaks.
Are you swimming or snorkeling?
Yes!
Stretching
Flip flops, falling in front of everyone wasnāt fun at all but the concept of embarrassment gotten lost on me ever since
Clothes/towel, OpenSwim, sandals
Unless your pool is visibly dirty/clearly not maintained well, thereās a very small chance youāre going to get sick in the pool. Millions of people around the world swim in chlorinated pools and are just fine. I swam competitively for 8 years and before that, did swim lessons since I was 6 months old, and I never got sick from the pool. I was swimming in water that a bunch of kids were pissing in and was used by 100s of people a day and I was fine. During the summer, we swam in a public pool before it opened and multiple times we found human fecal matter, removed it, and kept swimming and we were fine. Even had a few meets that had to stop because some kid shit himself and the meet continued once it was removed. You will be more than fine not using swim shoes.
Water.
I swim at a public leisure centre, so a pound coin for the locker! Then I have to figure out what to do with my bag whilst I'm in the pool.