Did you swim today?
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@emmab0902 Good thing he can't see my stroke, He would be spinning,2400m with masters
During the warmdown my coach told me that my freestyle technique needs fixing. He thinks I overextend especially on my right arm and is going to video me on Saturday to show me how bad my stroke is!
Noon Hour Splash and Dash.
All Breast - 500m and Backstroke - 500m.
One of the Swimmers in the Fast lane definitely needs to see the Sign posted by @Montepulciano . I am a slowwww backstroker and I would pass him every 6 lengths. Which is tricky on backstroke when you can't see where the other swimmers are in the cycle. Waited for the wall and front crawled past him then rolled over to BS.1 -
Thanks @emmab0902
Maybe i should. Gym yesterday but hitting the pool again today after my first ever pilates class if i still have any energy left.2 -
2500 yds, 58 minutes. Light rain and only one other swimmer way over on the other side of the pool. Very nice.1
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3500 yards, 73 minutes. Pool victory for me today, 5 x 100 pull on the 1:45 all below 1:30. Did I mention I love a good pull set?
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Adult Swim Club. All Drills incorporated 3 strokes, Crawl, Breast and Back.
200m Warmup 50 kick 50 swim
4 sets
25m Tomb Stone kick & 50m Pull = 75m x 3 (Fr,Bk,Br) = 225m x 4 = 900m
When you are at 1100m and only on your first set its going to be a killer workout!!
50m Fr, Bk, Br x 4 = 600m
Started in the Middle of the pool so we would have to do 2 turns/25m and swim away from the end of the pool. A practise of turns.
200m Front Crawl relay - 50m Tag out and wait for swimmer to get there 50m done. A play on the above drill with 4 turns.
200m cool down choice = 2100m.
We have done more but Tomb stones are brutal.1 -
What is Tomb Stone Kick?0
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2600 yds, 58 minutes. Three days in a row!1
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3700m 90 minutes with masters
600 warm up
6x100 IM on 2 min
6x (25+50+75) on 1min per 50m
4x100 kick on 2:30
10 x 100 free on 1:45 with paddles and pullbuoys
200 cool down
The 10 100s at the end were killer! My teammates were dropping like flies! I managed to hold on and even descend the last two.
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I got 40 min in before class again yesterday. As usual, it was the last 1/3 of my workout before I felt in the swing. I really need to try to get there earlier so that the last 1/3 is longer than 10-15 min. The first 10-15 are brutal sometimes. My muscles aren't warmed up. My arms and legs are acting like they are on separate bodies controlled by separate brains. The second 1/3 is better, but that's usually when I grab some kind of equipment to remind my body to stay flat. Then it all comes together at the end, and before I know it, it's time for the cardio class. I could move to a different lane and keep swimming laps, but each activity I do really complements the others, so I'm reluctant to give anything up.2
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@girlwithcurls2 - If your class is 60 minutes long and you are doing 40 minutes before that, that seems like plenty in one day. An option that comes to mind is to swim on the days you don't have cardio class? So you could do 60 minutes of swimming on non-cardioclass days?
Oh 3500 yard @ 75 minutes, 14,000 for the week, which was the goal!0 -
Montepulciano wrote: »You guys are fast.
You are too!0 -
aliciamariaq wrote: »Montepulciano wrote: »What is Tomb Stone Kick?
Yes, I am curious to know as well
I'm GUESSING it's where you hold the kick board vertically so it looks like a tombstone and creates resistance. @juliet3455 ?1 -
Montepulciano wrote: »What is Tomb Stone Kick?aliciamariaq wrote: »Yes, I am curious to know as wellI'm GUESSING it's where you hold the kick board vertically so it looks like a tombstone and creates resistance. @juliet3455 ?
@Montepulciano & @aliciamariaq
@emmab0902 Beat me to the answer. Also we were doing an Incremental Version of it where in the last 5 meters of the lane we fully submerged the Kick Board for Maximum Resistance.1 -
Awful awful session today with masters 2150m
400 warmup
16x 50 free with parachute 10s rest
6x 75 br with paddles
3x 100IM
200 warmdown
I've never used a parachute before and was horrified at how slow I was. Significantly slower than people I am faster than without gear.
Coach said it shows I'm losing my hold on the water somewhere.
To be honest I left the pool totally demoralised and seriously considering not going back ever again.
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Awful awful session today with masters 2150m
400 warmup
16x 50 free with parachute 10s rest
6x 75 br with paddles
3x 100IM
200 warmdown
I've never used a parachute before and was horrified at how slow I was. Significantly slower than people I am faster than without gear.
Coach said it shows I'm losing my hold on the water somewhere.
To be honest I left the pool totally demoralised and seriously considering not going back ever again.
No Emma don't feel that way! Although I probably would feel that way after 6x75 breastroke with paddles. Yikes! Torture!
You should consider what the Coach said about your technique and focus on that as your goal rather than speed etc.
I really wish my coach would do more technique and focusing on things we have to work on rather than pounding out the laps, all freestyle, all speedwork. It gets kind of boring. I would love to do more technique and more variety of strokes. That's why I am sometimes envious of the workouts you and @juliet3455 post.
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@emma0902 - I look at this way, imagine how much faster you will be when you sort out catching more water? If you were doing everything perfectly, improvement would only come from cranking out yardage. Plus you have a coach who is interested in helping you?1
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Montepulciano wrote: »@emma0902 - I look at this way, imagine how much faster you will be when you sort out catching more water? If you were doing everything perfectly, improvement would only come from cranking out yardage. Plus you have a coach who is interested in helping you?
Hopefully. But he hasn't actually told me specifically what I am doing wrong. Hopefully he will and help me fix it.2 -
aliciamariaq wrote: »That's why I am sometimes envious of the workouts you and @juliet3455 post.
@aliciamariaq Thanks for the Great Compliment. There is no reason you can't copy our postings and do them yourself. In fact I have been guilty of copying some of the workouts @emmab0902 posts and attempt them.
All the workouts I post are built by our Swim Instructor/Coach. Ironically she is a very Mature 17 yr. old Lady ( her name covers the record board in the Trophy Case ) . Unfortunately she will be leaving us next year to attend University. Quite often she cruises the web looking for drills and workouts that support the drill-technique she is try to re-enforce/improve. If she knows you and has your e-mail she will send her compiled workouts in Word Docs from the Pools e-mail so that is how I have compiled a folder of workouts. She has some that are a very short 400m in length and then she stacks different ones together to re-enforce the concept of the Drill and add distance. She also coach's the 12-14 year olds.2 -
8x 100 RIM on 2.15
Twice through the following
100 free kick
150 back
75 br
25 fly kick on back
6x 50 free
Stupid swimming with bungy cord which again showed me up but without identifying actual problem.
100 warmdown
If Wednesday's session is another demoralising one I'm walking out and that will be the end of my swimming. Feeling pretty upset and angry at being told there's something wrong but no effort to pinpoint exactly what or try to fix it. 100% disillusioned. 0 -
4 mile wake up.1
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@emmab0902 Before walking away - Stand up to the Coach and ask for some positive guidance on what he/she sees as being wrong so you can work on it as a collaborative team.
No swim today - recovering from our local running club Fall Challenge 7 Peaks / Pubs. Resulted in a Calf strain.
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3500 yards @ 75 minutes. Lovely Monday swim.0
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@juliet3455 - Sorry to hear about your injury, do take care of yourself and your strained calf.0
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juliet3455 wrote: »@emmab0902 Before walking away - Stand up to the Coach and ask for some positive guidance on what he/she sees as being wrong so you can work on it as a collaborative team.
No swim today - recovering from our local running club Fall Challenge 7 Peaks / Pubs. Resulted in a Calf strain.
Yep that's my plan2 -
Ugh, another endurance/pace practice last night.
400 warm up
12x50 on a minute with paddles
6x100 holding 1:30 with 20 sec rest
6x100 holding 1:30 with 15 sec rest
6x100 holding 1:30 with 10 sec rest
4x100 kick your choice
200 cool down
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Interesting set, @aliciamariaq. I am by nature a cardio/endurance sort, so like those kinds of workouts.
3500 @ 75 minutes.0 -
Kick Opulus - Descending sets followed by Front Crawl and Back Stroke - Descending Sets with strokes off the wall and controlled breathing.
100m Fr + 50m Fr Kick + 50m pull as warm-up.
4 x 25m Fr: 45s, 40s, 35s, 30s - reality for me was 45, 40, 40, 45 I have a weakkkk kick
4 x 25m Br: 55, 50, 45, 40 - these were easy for me
4 x 25m Bk: ??? Just kicked until I hit the wall - 10s rest. Turned and repeated
4 x 25m Fr: 50, 45, 40, 40 Adjusted my times from first set.
10 x 50m Fr Descending Rest - Flip turn & 3 strokes before breathing. 15s, 10s, 5s, 0.
Repeat kick set
10 x 50m BK Descending Rest - Turn & 3 strokes off the turn before Breathing.15s, 10s, 5s, 0.
Repeat kick set ( 1200m total of kicks)
10 x 50m Br Descending Rest - Flip turn & Whip Kick before surfacing. 15s, 10s, 5s, 0.
1500m total of Stroke/Breathing set
200m Easy with turns and 3 strokes before breathing as cool down.
Killer -
- 3100m Total: Going hard the whole time.
Usually we are limited to 55 mins = Avg 2000>2200m; today there was nothing scheduled in the hour after us so it was an open - free swim so us slower swimmers we just kept plugging away at the workout.
I definitely need to do more kick sets as it is the weakest portion of my swim - except in Breast where it is my strongest.
Strange how quickly the body can recover from some muscle strains-injuries and others just drag on. My calf feels dangerously good. No discomfort at all. Thought I might feel it on the push offs or the end of the super kick sets.
Will power walk tomorrow instead of running just to give it a little more low impact recovery time.1 -
3500 yards @ 73 minutes. Usually take Wed off, but the pool is closed this weekend for a meet on Friday/Sat/Sun.1
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Noon Hour Splash
250 Fr, 200 Br, 250 Bk, 250 Fr.
250 Fr Kick Fin assist
250 Bk Kick Fin assist1
