Did you swim today?
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Just starting out. Day 3 of treading water for 30 min.
Welcome. That's a good way to start!
[quote= Still struggle in the shallow end as I don't have a tight enough flip and end up crashing into the floor of the pool 50% of the time. [/quote]
I just learned to flip turn last summer and I was doing the same thing! Somebody told me to try to look at my knees as I turn and that seemed to help once I managed it. I still tend to sink some on the turn because I'm not very fast but I no longer head towards the bottom.0 -
20 minutes closed fist front crawl, 20 minutes backstroke, 21 minutes kickboard breast stroke0
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Dragging the anchors or maybe it was a Piano tonight.
A very slow 750m that was a struggle right from the first length.
250m free, 250m breast, 250m back. Just didn't have the go in my mojo.0 -
2450y in 45 minutes with a rousing sprint set of 8-25's to top off the night.0
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Good work everyone! Dragging a piano burns more calories, right?
50 minutes mixed sets including drills and sprints. All freestyle. I think it was 1700yds.1 -
2.5 km 58 min
Moral of the story - don't do sprint sets than take two days off!
Your times will tank when you return
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3.5 hours in the water today - but in the yak, not swimming! Works a lot of the same muscles as swimming free does, and boy am i feeling it now. Tomorrow could be an interesting day in the pool.0
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Spent the last week being sick/dealing with life. I'm planning on going swimming every day this week. I need to get back in the groove before the August 8th race I am apparently doing (whose clever idea was that???)
30 minutes at the lake today - they said it was a 500m course, but it felt longer. I'm gonna guess 1200m total. Would of done a third go-around but I had to be somewhere (don't people realise there's swimming to do?)
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Kida_Adeylne wrote: »don't people realise there's swimming to do?
LOL Kida. I understand. I have a problem with a local group of Triathlete's who keep dragging me out for "just a little trip around the block" either running or biking, but most of them don't like swimming so I have a hard time dragging them into the pool.
Hit the pool at 1230 today - 750m free, 250m breast, 200m back. 2 x 50m free sprints, 55s, 30s rest, 60s. Not fast but after 1200m - not bad. Finished with a slow 200m breast. 1500m total.0 -
ok catching up ...two days ago was a drylander day my first ever spin class ....and some rowing after to round out the hour.
Yesterday 20 minutes kickboard breast stroke, 20 minutes front crawl pull buoy, 21 minutes backstroke closed fist
Today 47 minutes breast stroke, 14 minutes kickboard front crawl0 -
Today is my 27th birthday, so I swam 2.7km. 50m pool. Gosh, I didn't realize how warm pools were. Much warmer than lake ontario, at any rate. 0
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Kida_Adeylne wrote: »Today is my 27th birthday, so I swam 2.7km. 50m pool. Gosh, I didn't realize how warm pools were. Much warmer than lake ontario, at any rate.
Happy Birthday! Great way to celebrate. Our YMCA pool temp is hovering in the mid 80's right now. I'm reasonably sure it's warmer than Lake Ontario. 0 -
1800 yds. 50 minutes. All freestyle. 500 swim, 100 kick, 200 pull breathing by 5's, 200 drills - alternating catch up and distance-per-stroke, 100 kick, 200 pull breathing by 3's, 500 swim.0
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4 miles.Includes 500 fins+ Kick board, 500 hand pads + Pull Buoy.
The rest free style.0 -
1km for about 22 minutes. My arm is sore from yesterday because I used the paddles a lot.0
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2.5 km 54 min
I realised in the course of my swim that I had regressed back to something I thought I had put well behind me awhile back - not breathing out fully, and thus some element of breath holding creeping in!
It was quite surprising when I realised what I was doing and immediately started ensuring that I was breathing out all the air by the time I turned to breath in.
Helped me feel less constricted, presume it reduced the upper body buoyancy (thereby helping with body position), and just overall made it easier to keep the power going through the swim!
I'm now scratching my head and wondering how long have I fallen back into the old trap!
You break these bad habits, but they are always itching to return
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1,700 mixed freestyle, back, breast + 500 kickboard "waddlekick" = 2,200 yards in 65 minutes0
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1500 yds today.
3x 150 free/50 kick/150 free
1x 200 free/50 kick/200 free
A total of 60 lengths - just 12 more until I'm doing a mile!0 -
62 minutes backstroke pull buoy ....tomorrow is a rest day0
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Got back into the lap lane after three weeks. Talk about rust, lol. Oh well. It felt good. I had been dreading it, thinking it would be worse than it was. Truth be told, I wasn't swimming well, but the water felt so good, I just kept going. 15 min freestyle laps interspersed with pull bouy, then 60 minutes of Kim's kick *kitten* water fitness class.0
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LOTS of great swimming, Folks - fantastic!!!! I've missed reading these posts the past few days, it's good to be back here. I've been getting some swimming in & a LOT of walking. The good news - since the lifeguard who does swim lessons can't do them in the scheduled time slot, the Board of the community approved giving those time slots to lap swim so it's now available Mon - Fri, saving me 2 hours driving a couple of days a week. While I still won't get my usual yardage in, it'll be enough that I can pick up pretty much where I left off when I'm back home & going to the gym.....0
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4 miles. If I ever get down to 1:30 per 100 I can do 5 miles in the morning
Did some swimming muscle lifting at the gym last night as well as other muscle groups. A trainer showed me the dumbbell pull over. The motion really focuses on the free style pull muscles. Felt good.0 -
1650 yds
200 free/50 kick/50 back/100 free w/pull buoy
Timed 50, 0:54
200 free/50 kick/50 back/100 free w/pull buoy
Timed 50, 0:51
200 free/50 kick/50 back/100 free w/pull buoy
Timed 50, 0:51
250 free
Timed 50, 0:48
Two things - one, can someone teach me how to swim on my back in a straight line?! I am all over the lane. It's ridiculous!
And two, how in the world did I cut time at the END on my workout?!0 -
One thing I did when first learning backstroke, that was more about getting the "s" shape under the water but helped me stay in a straight line, was using the lane rope. When doing the bottom part of the "S" shape I'd grab hold of the rope and push myself along. It forces you to swim right by the line.can someone teach me how to swim on my back in a straight line?! I am all over the lane. It's ridiculous!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayHmfsLKnyg
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That's good Mac, I can go wiggly too Laura but I concentrate like heck on ceiling patterns to stop it, oh old habits die hard AQ!
And i know what you mean about a gap Curly. I did my first half decent swim for a bit today - about 45 mins before went to play with my daughter and nothing special lengthwise. The pesky shoukder, the kitchen painting (aggravated shoulder) and then mum in hospital - again - mean it's been a bit quiet on the maxing the Pool membership front. Hey ho.0 -
1500 yds this morning. 45 minutes or thereabouts. My neck/shoulder/upper arm is bothering me but I'm not sure if it's swimming related or something else. I'm trying some different things to see if I can get it to stop. It was a beautiful morning out at the pool though. 0
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4 miles. All free style. 3x2000, and 1050.0
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20 min mixed freestyle and free with pull bouy before class. About midway through, I remembered Stephen's comment about "resting" with each breath. I was sharing a lane with an older woman with an incredibly slow, rhythmic stroke rate. It was mesmerizing me. I wanted to be her. I decided to try Stephen's trick and it worked. It was totally psychological, I think, but I slowed my stroke rate, and just got into a groove. I was kind of bummed that I had to give up my lane for class. But them Kim worked us hard again, which is always good.0
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2.5 km 56 min
Great to read all the posts and all the swimming going on!
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2400 y in 70 minutes: 1900 mixed freestyle, back/breast + 500 kickboard0
