Did you swim today?
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Like Button Required for Noels Gummybear JarNoelFigart1 wrote: »1100 30:42 Each time I do a swim workout, I'm putting a gummybear in a jar.
@mpeters1965 Glad to hear that it is slowly getting better. Enjoy the New Car Smell while you can.
You may have the Seat Belt Bruise but that's a lot better than if you did not have a seatbelt on.1 -
~2000-2100m in 62 minutes, i lost count in the middle so I'm not entirely sure on my distance.
I also think I induced my first ever low blood sugar episode by cranking out my swim this morning without eating anything. Oddly enough it didn't really hit me until about an hour after my swim when I was at home under the warm shower. Then I got really nauseous for about 30 minutes.0 -
No swims for me since Saturday - have further damaged my shoulder. Which is great timing ten days before the North Island Championships! Spending lots of quality time with frozen peas at the moment :-(0
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No swims for me since Saturday - have further damaged my shoulder. Which is great timing ten days before the North Island Championships! Spending lots of quality time with frozen peas at the moment :-(
Oh no! One of my kids asked me once why we kept peas in the freezer but never ate them (none of us like peas)! Do you think you will be able to swim in the Championships or are you out of the water for a while?stephenrhinton wrote: »I also think I induced my first ever low blood sugar episode by cranking out my swim this morning without eating anything. Oddly enough it didn't really hit me until about an hour after my swim when I was at home under the warm shower. Then I got really nauseous for about 30 minutes.
That's what it sounds like to me. I almost never swim without eating first.juliet3455 wrote: »@mpeters1965 Glad to hear that it is slowly getting better. Enjoy the New Car Smell while you can.
You may have the Seat Belt Bruise but that's a lot better than if you did not have a seatbelt on.
Don't I know it!0 -
Short swim today as I left work later than intended. And then when I got there I couldn't find my lap counter so i know i did 25 minutes but I'm not sure of the distance. I do know I pushed hard and did a ton of sprints.0
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Rest day yesterday. Back in the pool this morning for mix of kicks, breast and free. Like mpeters I have the chest pain still - the accident would have been 5 weeks tomorrow. Lets hope the pain stops soon!!0
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Wise words MP - and here's to healing muscles/bruises for you, panda, emma and anyone else in need!
1250 today - about 42 mins.
Got almost as wet getting to pool as in it.. Meant I had to use a second locker to spread my soggy clothes out - number 116 - so i did a routine based on 1x something, 1x something, 6x something. I am easily amused.
A question. When you are doing front crawl/free how can you tell you are engaging your back muscles not just the (easy to hurt!) shoulder ones? Is there a feeling /sensation you aim for - i know the roll etc helps. (I was trying to 'feel' the difference in my swim today, not just get the position correct...) any ideas?
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gentlygently wrote: »A question. When you are doing front crawl/free how can you tell you are engaging your back muscles not just the (easy to hurt!) shoulder ones? Is there a feeling /sensation you aim for - i know the roll etc helps. (I was trying to 'feel' the difference in my swim today, not just get the position correct...) any ideas?
Totally.
Go to the weight room and go to the machine where you do the lat pulldowns. Try that. If you're doing it right in the pool, you'll feel the muscles at the upper lats tighten first, then go all the way down the back of your ribs to your waist.0 -
54 laps in 70 minutes-- two minutes faster than my regular lap time by concentrating on intensity0
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NoelFigart1 wrote: »gentlygently wrote: »A question. When you are doing front crawl/free how can you tell you are engaging your back muscles not just the (easy to hurt!) shoulder ones? Is there a feeling /sensation you aim for - i know the roll etc helps. (I was trying to 'feel' the difference in my swim today, not just get the position correct...) any ideas?
Totally.
Go to the weight room and go to the machine where you do the lat pulldowns. Try that. If you're doing it right in the pool, you'll feel the muscles at the upper lats tighten first, then go all the way down the back of your ribs to your waist.
Another check is to try a pull lap with hand paddles and no kick. If you're crawling right, you should really feel those muscles engage with the hand paddles. If you don't feel them, check the second part of your stroke The crawl has two parts-- where the hand enters the water and then pulls toward about chest level, and then the second part where it switches from a pull to a push. It's during the push phase when I feel the back and core muscles engage if I'm doing it right-- NOT in the pull phase--where it's more likely to be all shoulder0 -
2200 yards in just over 50 minutes. Felt faster, but the watch doesn't lie. Three other swimmers in the pool and it's getting full dark toward the 7pm start time now!0
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First swim after four days of ibuprofen and frozen peas0 -
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First swim after four days of ibuprofen and frozen peas0 -
Not so sore this morning so did 400m crawl, then 1km mixed kicks with fins, then another 400m crawl. I finally feel like I am getting better!0
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Not today but yesterday...oops forgot to log in my 6 laps ....WHOO HOO1
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Yeah. I swam. If you can call it that. I cannot seem to get my groove back. I got it back briefly, but lately, my bum is dragging on the bottom of the pool, my kick is so weak, I'm being passed by everyone, and I am taking on water like a leaky boat. I know that when my swims have been crappy before, the ONLY way through it is to quit swimming (not really up for that), or push through and try to get there more often, even though there is absolutely nothing motivating about another crappy swim. The long, rhythmic, streamlined swim has become short, choppy and exhausting.
However, in our water cardio class, we're doing lots of work with resistance training, and I stay pretty much in one place which means my core is bada$$ strong. Now, if I could just engage it when I'm horizontal in the water, I'd actually SWIM!!0 -
2400 yards in 54 minutes at 2:16/100 pace, my fastest yet. I have a mental block that is keeping me from getting to the 2500 distance within the hour window I have for evening lap swim.0
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1100 30:070
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2 days ago was a drylander day, walked 4 miles on the treadmill
Yesterday was a spontaneous rest day, I just could motivate to the gym.
2200 m in 62 minutes, mixed strokes, 28 sprint lengths (700m)
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Swimming is one of the few things I am allowed to do these days due to knee surgery. Today I was allowed to start kicking while I swim as well so it was proper swimming! Looking forward to more...0
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First swim after four days of ibuprofen and frozen peas
Emma feel for you, I swam a mile two weeks ago and still hurt.0 -
1250 45 mins IM
(well, IM ish, my 'butterfly' was without wings...)
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Ps Curly yep sometimes it is just like that....I suppose at times you just have to concentrate on the determination to be fit or whatever, not the 'look at me, how well am I doing' / 'I feel like a flying fish today' feelings. And too many people posting right now are having to concentrate on letting their bodies heal. I am certainly going through a 'doing it for other reasons not coz I am liking it' phase.
Let's hope all our inner mermaids and mermen resurface soon...!0 -
I got another swim in today. It wasn't long, but I got Ms J's workout in. I realized that it's been a while since I swam laps consistently. When I got in to do the workout, I got about five strokes in and already I could tell it was going to be a better swim. I didn't have a real plan when I arrived, but decided that by doing Ms J's workout, it was helping me with all of the things I was struggling with, so I decided that even though I felt long and more rhythmic, I'd stick with the plan and keep up doing those sets on my back that I usually hate (because when you're not good at keeping your body flat, you get lots of water up your nose... but when you do those sets consistently, you learn better body positioning which makes those sets and swimming in general easier-duh!). So that's what I did. Kind of shorter than I had hoped, but dang, I'm getting better on my back (and on my tummy!!).
Thanks for the reminder, gently. I enjoy the feeling of the water enough that I don't usually have to work hard to get myself there. It's just hard to keep going when it's not going well.
Here's hoping that everybody working through an injury gets back to their usual selves. It's hard to be patient.0 -
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4X50 as 2 free 1 back 1 br
10X50 pull on 60
10X50 kick on 70
4X50 free max with fins on 2.00
8X25 mixed off blocks sprints
100 easy
Got shown how to do the "proper" ie split starts. Felt weird as had expected you'd pull back for for momentum but coach said you start with shoulders perpendicular to blocks. Interestingly my free 25s were all about 0.4s faster than with my usual old style starts (did some of each to compare.) Managed a 17.8 for 25 back.
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I do mostly crawl when I swim. On Friday, I did 44 lengths, including 2 kick board. The most I have done recently is 54 lengths. Doing 20 consecutive lengths last week was a recent personal best. Looking forward to bumping up the consecutive lengths and overall lengths.0
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Back in the pool after a three day break. 400m crawl, 800m mixed kicks and drills (with fins), 10x40m sprints, 200m crawl down and then 200m slow breast stroke to finish off.0
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Looks like I'll be down to 0 or 1 swims per week for a while. I have a show opening in 18 days so things are hectic.0
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ok Friday was a Personal Best, 2250m in 62 minutes, mixed strokes, 30 sprint lengths (750meters).
I went directly from the pool to a Men's Camping Weekend with my church, which is why I didn't post. Saturday I hung out in the woods with the fellas (and oddly enough we played card games and board games all day instead of woodsy stuff). but no 'exercise' other than just being a little cool and damp for the whole day.
Today I got my swim in before going home because I knew if I took a sunday afternoon nap-post camping trip I wouldn't get back out of the house. So 2150m in 61 minutes, mixed strokes, 28 sprint lengths.0
