The most common reason for having any kind of anxiety when it comes to swimming is usually linked to a bad experience in the past. This could have been a terrifying swimming lesson, an accidental fall into deep water or even a near drowning.
Now when you go near water or a swimming pool your body’s self defence systems kick in and raises your heart rate, tightens your muscles and accelerates your breathing. These are all your body’s way of saying ‘don’t go there’!
You might not have quite such a fear of deep water. Instead you could be one of those swimmers who swim happily around until suddenly out of nowhere you feel like you’re going to sink. You are swimming in deep water and it is going to pull you down and you instantly find yourself scrambling for the side to hold on to.
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