Did you swim today?
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Juliet - great work, way to push yourself!!!
Rob - hope the stretching helps....
All freestyle workout today - 250, 500, 1000, 1500, 1500, 1000, 500, 250 yards in 114 minutes. I'll be out all next week, treatments Monday through Thursday & then I'm leaving Thursday afternoon for the Mountain Jam Music Festival, I'll be back home the following Monday & back in the pool that Tuesday. I will get a lot of walking in while I'm at the festival, plus we'll be doing a lot of playing ourselves at the condo we rent up there....0 -
Last am swim for the summer. Sprints and kick work.0
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55 minutes
Masters
12x50 as
3 free
3 kick on right side
3 kick on left side
3 free
10x75 as
5 back on 75
5 br on 90
2x200 pull
8x100 on 2.00 as (twice through)
25 fly 50 free 25 br
25 br 50 free 25 fly
25 back 50 free 25 fly
25 fly 50 free 25 back
250 easy
And my shoulder hurts!0 -
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And my shoulder hurts!
My shoulder's hurts reading your swim. My 1600m in 75 mins seems glacially slooow.
50 free, 50 breast, 50 back = 150m warmup.
No fins just a pool buoy and the small kickboard for all my drills.
250m free - Bilateral breathing practise ( still weak on my left side ).
250m breast.
250m back.
200m kick - back.
200m kick - free.
200m kick - breast.
100m free - all left side breathing.0 -
Getting back into the grove after 2 weeks off (holidays, half term etc) by catching up on MFP. - I found I was mentally planning out my 'back to normal' week next week without allowing for swim sessions, urgghhh - it is so easy to get out of the habit.
Anyway , now I am suitably jealous of all the good swimming you fishes have been up to and really looking forward to my Monday splash. Thanks!
(A few aches and pains out there - so just a reminder you might want to check out Alexander Tecnhique based swimming technique (aims at reducing stresses on the body....) eg Google Steve Shaw and the Art of Swimming. No, I am not on commission just a really impressed pupil ! )0 -
Thanks. I don't know much about his methods, but from a quick look it seems that my practical philosophy of swimming might be similar to his. Except when I'm sprinting, which I don't really enjoy anyway.gentlygently wrote: »(A few aches and pains out there - so just a reminder you might want to check out Alexander Tecnhique based swimming technique (aims at reducing stresses on the body....) eg Google Steve Shaw and the Art of Swimming. No, I am not on commission just a really impressed pupil ! )
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Fate has conspired to ensure this week is another off/ rest week. Been unable to get to the pool most of the week. This weekend my wife and I are on a holiday retreat!
The pool here is a strange shape, but I still planned on swimming, double checked to make sure all the swimming stuff was in there as we packed, including 2 swim trunks just in case, then got here and realised forgot googles. So any serious swim shall have to wait till Monday!
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Just got back from the sports medicine guy. No swimming or weightlifting for at least 10 days, doing special wrist stretching exercises, and wearing an elbow strap. That 5-mile swim on Monday resulted in tennis & golfer's elbow (lateral and some medial epicondylitis). Biking OK. If pain gone after 10 days, I may have to abandon the faster freestyle stroke (bent elbow catch and pull, otherwise known as EVF: early vertical forearm). I'm sad, but don't want this to become a chronic injury.
Thanks, AQ. Earlier today I happened upon the same thread (that you reference in your post) at TI Swimming. I had initially planned on swimming again at lunch time and after work to do 10k today and I really wanted to go back at lunch time to see if I could experiment with different catch and pull techniques to reduce the pain, but I thought better of getting back into the pool until I was seen by the NP. It may well be technique related, but I fear it is just too many miles and he's going to tell me to take a month off and re-evaluate.AquaticQuests wrote: »Swam two miles before work. Right elbow started hurting during my first 5-mile swim Monday and it was still hurting while swimming today. Lateral epicondylitis, I think. Can't see a sports medicine specialist till June 23rd, but I can see the nurse practitioner in a different orthopedic surgery/sports medicine office tomorrow. (The same NP that misdiagnosed my ankle injury that eventually ended my long-distance running carreer.) Hmmm.
Oh no! The elbows got you too? I get them on and off! Laying off the swimming helps ease the pain, then as I get back they can become an issue. You may need to look at your technique! Check out my post on it:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/AquaticQuests/view/swimmer-s-elbow-lateral-sculling-and-the-pinkie-739563
Rob, for what it's worth I think you're handling it the right way. Get it checked so that you're sure you're not going to cause or worsen anything. Hopefully, it'll just be a small tweak in technique & all will be well.....
I will really be monitoring your updates on this one Robertus, given that I've been struggling with similar elbow issues!
In the past all my struggles were with shoulder issues. Following changes in technique and a stretching regime, these went away, and now these elbow issues seem to have taken their place.
Strange because even after my 10km December swim, I never had elbow pain, so I'm pretty sure it's an overuse injury linked to technique changes I've made since January rather than just the distance.
Hoping technique changes/ tweaks can deal with the pain as they did with the debilitating shoulder pain I used to have.
Not excited about the prospect of abandoning the high elbow catch yet, as I've worked on that a large part of this year! That will be a last resort when nothing else works
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55 minutes of a workout written by Ms_J1. It was great! There were only two people in the pool this morning when I was swimming. Don't know where everyone else was. It was a beautiful morning so maybe they are off doing something else.
Here is our outdoor pool.
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AQ- I can't tell you how many times I have planned to swim while away and forgotten my goggles.0
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panhandle8 wrote: »Last am swim for the summer. Sprints and kick work.
Do you switch to the evening for swimming now?0 -
Yes, I have 4 children home for the summer so I will need to swim after my husband is home for the evening. I don't care for evening swims as I would rather swim on an empty/semi-empty stomach. Ah well, 1st world problems!mpeters1965 wrote: »Do you switch to the evening for swimming now?0 -
mpeters1965 wrote: »AQ- I can't tell you how many times I have planned to swim while away and forgotten my goggles.
Frustrating isn't it.
Thankfully someone lent me their goggles today and I got a 45 min swim in. No clue on distance given the shape of the hotel pool!
That's a nice empty pool you were in by the way!
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62 minutes ...didn't count but I felt slow and lazy
Dog sitting again this weekend so I did drylander workouts the last two days. Felt SOOOOO much better to get back to the pool.0 -
1800 yards. About 50 minutes. 300 swim, 50 kick, 300 pull, 50 kick, 4 x 100 on 2:30, 50 kick, 300 pull, 50 kick, 300 swim. I made up the workout when I was driving to the Y this morning. I had pulled all my other workouts out of my bag to organize and realized as I was driving in that I never put them back!
Panhandle - 1st world problems yes, but we sure get used to swimming at our regular times!
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Feel for you AQ.
I have a MRI scheduled next week to look at my shoulder.
I have not been swimming since April 22
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Hope things go better for you with the shoulder, Bruce. Have you switched to another exercise in the meantime? Biking, running, walking? I biked 15 miles Saturday and was amazed at how much of a work-out it was. I'm in great cardio conditioning but my legs have not kept up with my arms, lats & lungs.Bruceapple wrote: »Feel for you AQ.
I have a MRI scheduled next week to look at my shoulder.
I have not been swimming since April 22
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3000 free, non stop. No sips breaks. Tried maintaining under a 1:50 per 100 for the whole 3000.
500 Kick/fins
500 pads/pull buoy
2000 free.0 -
I have been on a Stairmaster and spinning classes.0
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Sprint Triathlon Practise. 15 Minutes of Swim warm-up and stretch's.
Swim 750 meters in 18 minutes.
Bike 21.6 km in 48 minutes ( Avg Speed 27 Km/Hr; Need a new BIKE !! )
Run 5 km in 39 minutes. ( Avg Speed 7.7 Km/Hr )
That Qualifies as a Monster Workout for me !!!0 -
juliet3455 wrote: »Sprint Triathlon Practise. 15 Minutes of Swim warm-up and stretch's.
Swim 750 meters in 18 minutes.
Bike 21.6 km in 48 minutes ( Avg Speed 27 Km/Hr; Need a new BIKE !! )
Run 5 km in 39 minutes. ( Avg Speed 7.7 Km/Hr )
That Qualifies as a Monster Workout for me !!!
Wow that is ffrakin impressive! I am so so jealous!
Yesterday was a lazy day. Or I could be all cool and call it a 'rest day'... but mostly I just didn't want to get off my butt and go to the pool.
63 minutes tonight, 50 minute mile, 2k total. 8:1 Crawl:Other stroke ratio
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3000 free, non stop. No sips breaks. Tried maintaining under a 1:50 per 100 for the whole 3000.
500 Kick/fins
500 pads/pull buoy
2000 free.
Hey, look at that, stephenrhinton is all cool now. ;-)stephenrhinton wrote: »juliet3455 wrote: »Sprint Triathlon Practise. 15 Minutes of Swim warm-up and stretch's.
Swim 750 meters in 18 minutes.
Bike 21.6 km in 48 minutes ( Avg Speed 27 Km/Hr; Need a new BIKE !! )
Run 5 km in 39 minutes. ( Avg Speed 7.7 Km/Hr )
That Qualifies as a Monster Workout for me !!!
Wow that is ffrakin impressive! I am so so jealous!
Yesterday was a lazy day. Or I could be all cool and call it a 'rest day'... but mostly I just didn't want to get off my butt and go to the pool.
63 minutes tonight, 50 minute mile, 2k total. 8:1 Crawl:Other stroke ratio
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Draggin my @$$ today after yesterday.stephenrhinton wrote: »Wow that is ffrakin impressive! I am so so jealous!
Yesterday was a lazy day. Or I could be all cool and call it a 'rest day'... but mostly I just didn't want to get off my butt and go to the pool.
63 minutes tonight, 50 minute mile, 2k total. 8:1 Crawl:Other stroke ratio
Thanks Stephen - 2 years ago there was no way I could do anything like yesterdays routine.
The work outs you are doing are pretty impressive.
We all have to look back at where our starting point was to realize what we have accomplished.
Nothing wrong with having a Cool Day once in a while. Our bodies actually need that type of day to recover and heal.
Today was a lazy ( Cool ) recovery day for me, 750m mixed breast/back/free/kick drills and sculling - 1 hour, more chatting than anything and some quality Hot Tub time.0 -
So I'm back from the break.
Yesterday rain meant no swim. Today was up early for swim, then still can't find where I out my goggles are, so called off the swim, and didn't leave home. Hope to find them and swim later today!
Sorry to hear Bruce. Last time I was out with shoulder pain (a couple of years ago now)I stayed out of the pool for quite a few months to let it heal. I began to think that swimming was no longer a viable exercise for me to be doing.Bruceapple wrote: »Feel for you AQ.
I have a MRI scheduled next week to look at my shoulder.
I have not been swimming since April 22
But gladly when I came back, and with the shoulder exercises, it's not recurred.
One major stroke correction I had to make though was to change from my palm entering the water almost sideways (ie thumb first) as I had been taught many years back, to instead entering with a flat palm angled downwards.
The thumb first entry places great pressure on the shoulder, causes rotator cuff problems, and in my case, I suspect, was the cause of 80-90% of my shoulder problems (http://www.swimsmooth.com/injury.php)
I also eliminated the mid line cross over.
Since I rested the shoulder and thereafter changed my hand entry, the shoulder problems have not recurred even now 2 years later! In December I watched a video of my swimming and realised the thumb first entry and cross over was unknowingly creeping back in, and I worked to stamp it out again immediately!Hope things go better for you with the shoulder, Bruce. Have you switched to another exercise in the meantime? Biking, running, walking? I biked 15 miles Saturday and was amazed at how much of a work-out it was. I'm in great cardio conditioning but my legs have not kept up with my arms, lats & lungs.
That's my one gripe with swimming!
Under 1:50 for almost 3 km - impressive!3000 free, non stop. No sips breaks. Tried maintaining under a 1:50 per 100 for the whole 3000.
500 Kick/fins
500 pads/pull buoy
2000 free.juliet3455 wrote: »Sprint Triathlon Practise. 15 Minutes of Swim warm-up and stretch's.
Swim 750 meters in 18 minutes.
Bike 21.6 km in 48 minutes ( Avg Speed 27 Km/Hr; Need a new BIKE !! )
Run 5 km in 39 minutes. ( Avg Speed 7.7 Km/Hr )
That Qualifies as a Monster Workout for me !!!
Wow a triathlete!0 -
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250 as 50 free 50 br 50 fly 50 free 50 kick
8x50 free as 1-3 descend 4 hold (x2) on 60
6x100 as 50 br 50 back on 2.00
8x25 sprint kick on 50
4x75 pull as 25 free 25 br 25 free
16x25 IMO (no br) on 35 (meant to use fins but I needed to push myself so did without)
150 easy
Was the first remotely resembling speed work I've done in two months so I felt it!!0 -
1950 yds, just under an hour. I did Ms. J's workout again. Felt good!0
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MsJ's workout and then aquafitness class. I can feel it, but it all felt good. I'm getting better with my bilateral breathing too, largely due to MsJ's "making me do it." It is a total switch for me to head to the pool with a planned workout. I am more motivated and I get on task faster.0
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2.508km 56 min
Haven't done a long swim for some time so - yeah - it was hard!0 -
Today will be day 5 with no swim. We have been busy with kids' sports, our 25th! wedding anniversary, and husband has evening work functions. If I don't get into the pool tomorrow, I will implode!0
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panhandle8 wrote: »Today will be day 5 with no swim. We have been busy with kids' sports, our 25th! wedding anniversary, and husband has evening work functions. If I don't get into the pool tomorrow, I will implode!
Happy 25th! I hope you get to swim soon.0
