Lift with your legs

If I was an olympic swimmer, I would go down in history as "the girl who couldn't lift herself out of the pool, ever." And I would have a team of people to drag me out of the pool after every race. And they'd get annoyed at my refusal to cooperate and how I would go very limp and disgrace my home country. And, I'd have an unsightly wedgie 100% of the time.