Did you swim today?
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Noel - you hit it exactly, any work is better than none & there are benefits derived from every workout, both good & bad. At the very least, you're getting some work for the muscles & getting the heart rate up. Sometimes a "bad" workout can be good, it creates something for you to compare a good workout to & it teaches you that you can get through a day where you don't feel right....
Curls - that is great news, it's a direct result of getting in the water consistently. Sharing with the right group can be a BIG asset, as it causes you to push yourself to either keep up or stay ahead....
Ashen - fantastic, can't wait to hear how the meet went.....0 -
NoelFigart1 wrote: »The point of the jellybean analogy is to get away from quantifying and overanalyzing each workout. The fact they happen consistently and build up a volume of work is the important thing.
Noel, you started this Jelly Bean thing.:) Maybe if we don't like Jelly Beans..put a "$$ bill "in the jar? Volume of work=new whatever at end of year.0 -
LOL. Hey, yeah, if I put money in the jar for every workout, I can afford to get to Dover and hire a pilot! I like it! ('Course at my level of swimming skill, that's something of a dangerous pipe dream, but it's a dream, dammit!)
1300 38:36 Oh, my hiney is sore from the kicking drills....0 -
18x50@30 minutes, plus 4x50 with fins.0
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Great work, Noel & Bama!!!!
Felt really good in the water today, but I stuck to the plan & did all freestyle again - I will work on the I.M.'s again in a few weeks when I'm back for good. It was, however, VERY tempting to try them today...
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Today was yet again 250, 500, 1000, 1500, 1500, 1000, 500, 250 in 114 minutes....0 -
Yes, 2 miles @ 69 minutes0
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1500 42:410
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Stuck to the freestyle plan again today: 250, 500, 1000, 1500, 1500, 1000, 500, 250 in 114 minutes....0
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40 min last night. Just freestyle and legs with a board. Felt pretty good, although not at a "workout" pace by any stretch.0
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Curly, my first thought is that any workout is a good workout. The second thought is that sometimes we need days with an easier workout to allow our muscles time to heal properly, yet you're doing enough to keep loose & ready for the next bigger workout day....0
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I agree with @Macstraw If you're doing it several times a week, changing it up, some hard, some easy, some long distance, some shorter, is a good thing.
FWIW, I actually do have workout distance schedule.
MWF -1500 yards
T,TH - 1300 yards
Sat or Sun - 2000 yards
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went back to the pool last week for a couple aqua jogs after injuring my knee the other week. felt good. next week I start lessons to improve my swimming technique so I can reach my swimming goal of swimming 12 lengths non-stop by Easter. hanging in there and still loving the water0
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Yeah - 5 km swum in 1 hour and 41 minutes. Just got to shave off one minute to reach my goal!!1
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Woo! Hoo! Getting close, @60sPanda! That's wonderful.0
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45 min last night. Empty lanes! The difference between Thursday night and Friday is really striking. Usually I do an aqua fitness class on Friday nights, but those empty lanes were calling me.0
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36x50 yard@45 min0
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Update from Thursday. I was tired and feel like going but I went to my Masters Swim anyways.
I have discovered a problem with my front crawl form. I think I got too used to open water swimming and also having to watch for others in my lane. When I swim I do not keep my head in the neutral line. I am always looking ahead slightly. I noticed quite a difference when I had my head in the neutral line with my body. So much more streamlined. It is going to take awhile to get used to looking straight down.0 -
Did the US Masters Postal Swim (Basically a national contest where everyone swims as far as they can in an hour, then they mail in the results and get ranked). While it won't be anything to write home about nationally, I feel pretty good about my progress.
Splits
500 13:01.17
1000 26:50.68
1500 40:43.15
2000 54:26.98
2200 60:00.000 -
NoelFigart1 wrote: »Did the US Masters Postal Swim (Basically a national contest where everyone swims as far as they can in an hour, then they mail in the results and get ranked). While it won't be anything to write home about nationally, I feel pretty good about my progress.
Splits
500 13:01.17
1000 26:50.68
1500 40:43.15
2000 54:26.98
2200 60:00.00
Great job Noel and your pace was pretty consistent throughout. Your progress has been GREAT!!!!0 -
Yes, 2 miles @ 66 minutes0
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Great work, Everybody!!!!
Ashen - it's a BIG step when you can diagnose what's wrong with your own stroke!!!!!
Noel - Great swim, nice splits!!!!0 -
started my swim classes today and managed to swim 4 lengths non-stop! yay! I know that sounds like nothing to many but my Easter goal is to swim 12 lengths non-stop, and considering I couldn't swim one length non-stop at the start of the year, I'm happy. definitely feel fitter from all the aqua jogging I've been doing...0
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newoutlook2014 wrote: »started my swim classes today and managed to swim 4 lengths non-stop! yay! I know that sounds like nothing to many
No, it's not nothing. That's a fourfold improvement in less than a month. That's awesome.0 -
1500 42:430
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Noel - nice swim
newoutlook - it's definitely not nothing, we've all been there & it's taken time to build the stamina. What you're going to find (the really cool part of this whole thing) is that if you keep putting the work in the stamina will come faster than you're expecting it too. The increases aren't linear, they're exponential. I think you'll hit your 12 lengths long before Easter....0 -
Wow, great swims, folks! Noel, your progress is awesome. I love how consistently you and some of these other people get in the water. It is really encouraging to me when I don't feel the love of the pool, lol.
Ashen, I totally get ya! Finding the bottom of the pool is one of the many things I talk to myself about when I swim. And like you, I feel so much more fluid when I do.
newoutlook, how do you push yourself to keep going when you don't think you can? I know I have the cardio capacity because I do lots of other things, but there is something psychological about increased heartrate and breathing while swimming that I can't seem to push past. I know I need to do it in order to be able to increase lengths, but every time I go, I just wimp out. I saw a woman in the lane next to me last week who was swimming nonstop the entire time I was there. She swam slower than I kicked on the board. I try to remind myself not to push too fast, so I'm not winded, but I also know that I can't swim that slowly.
bama and panda, keep it up! You guys are inspiration! 0 -
Curly - you don't need to swim THAT slowly, just don't go full tilt. You already know that you can physically go further, my psychological key when I was adding yardage was to stop thinking long term (about how far I was going to go), I took the short term view of "Just a few more strokes", which I was able to do without feeling stressed. I would just keep saying that, knowing I always had a couple of more strokes in me. You'd be surprised how much further you can go if you stop thinking about the total distance.....0
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thanks for the support, guys. I'm so glad I found this group!
Curly, I really think in my case it was partly getting my fitness up doing heaps of aqua jogging over the last couple weeks, and also in the swim lesson we focused on drills. So it was a combination of drills, improving my technique and improved fitness. and I finally get it when people say you use a lot of your upper body pulling yourself through the water.. it really is like a 'front crawl' motion. and I didn't swim that fast.0 -
Yes, 2 miles @ 70 minutes0
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Curly - you don't need to swim THAT slowly, just don't go full tilt. You already know that you can physically go further, my psychological key when I was adding yardage was to stop thinking long term (about how far I was going to go), I took the short term view of "Just a few more strokes", which I was able to do without feeling stressed. I would just keep saying that, knowing I always had a couple of more strokes in me. You'd be surprised how much further you can go if you stop thinking about the total distance.....
I doubt I could swim that slow!
Had a good swim last night. I decided to give another lap a go. Just try it. I could always roll onto my back or switch strokes if I needed to. I did tell myself that I could do "one more length" to keep going. It worked. I made it through 4 sets of 3 full laps. My legs were tired from a run the day before, but I focused on looking down, and pulling with my arms. I know that when I have a focus, even for just one length, it takes my mind off the part that struggles with how far. I'm going to try the same thing tonight. I feel like any improvements that I made with my awesome swim a week ago are sticking. I haven't left the pool feeling like nothing clicked. Something clicks and it's still working, so I must have made it over a hump. It's all good...
Thanks for the support, people! It's nice to have a community of people who completely understand the struggles and victories.
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