Did you swim today?
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Mine stores 200 laps and gives you totals & average times beyond that.
I like the clock function because I can easily identify the the laps where I forgot to click the lap counter. My laps are around 50 seconds, but when I see 1:40 or 2:30 I realize that I did 2 or 3 laps at that point. Occasionally I forget to click the counter and sometimes I think it does not register because the button is not always reliable, I think.
I use this:MonkeyMel21 wrote: »I'm just curious...how do you all keep track of your longer distance swims??? usually in my head I'm all "la la la, breath, water in my mouth, oops, ok now breath, la la la" and have no idea what lap I'm on, lmao
http://www.amazon.com/SportCount-Chrono-200-Counter-Timer/dp/B00NVR1Y0E?ie=UTF8&psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00
I use the one without the clock function. Love it.
Re Bilateral breathing. I had to force myself to learn after spending the previous 50 odd years breathing only out pf my left side.
Swimming longer distances it became apparent that I had to learn bilateral to keep my body in balance.
It took maybe 100 miles before it finally felt natural.
Just do it. And keep doing it until it feels natural.
But it only stores 50 laps. So it doesn't help me when I'm swimming 141
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No, it was on the breathing side. I'm hoping it's mostly sorted out now as long as I don't do too much fast distance swims too many days in a row. I can do a 29-minute mile, but I shouldn't try to do a 145-minute 5-mile swim.
Good job. It varies quite a bit. Many here are daily swimmers. At the other extreme, after a very long swim (3-6 miles), it is not unusual for me to take a week off. I need to be careful to to exacerbate shoulder/elbow issues that surfaced last year. Other weeks, I might do 2-3 miles about 3 times a week. Depends on the weather. On nice days, I may bike 35 miles to and from work over the 'mountain'. I added biking and walking to my fitness pursuits so that I would not have to rely too much on swimming and save my shoulder/elbow.Montepulciano wrote: »So I started back in the pool about a month ago. First day swam 600 yards (24 lengths) and now a month later I am up to 2100 yards (84 lengths) and it takes me about 50 minutes. My goal by the end of May is to be around 3200 yards.
How often do you guys get in the pool?
Robertus, I've just put two and two together. Is your bad shoulder/elbow on the opposite side of your breathing side? If yes, then it could be the position of your arm/elbow hand as you pulling and turning to breathe. It's possible to put your arm into an impingement position for the rotator cuff tendons of the shoulder. Also, have you had your neck looked at?0 -
Nope - it was just too darn nice outside today, so I went for a long walk instead...it was lovely!
How often?
Well, I think I have the honour of being the slowest and least frequent swimmer amongst us regular posters. I aim for twice a week (usually IK), have sometimes managed 3x and often it is once or less. I have pretty good stroke form, just I do it all modestly speed/distnsce wise.
I remember my distance a variety of ways - alphabet games, routines made out of wordplay (eg my pool is called Glassmills, so the g is general warm up, the l is leg drills for all 4 stokes, a similar but for arms etc). I tried a finger counter, but it died pretty quick. Sometimes I don't count.
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I was all ready to go swim today, when I discovered my wallet had gone adventuring..probably on the bus, yesterday. Harumpf.0
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MonkeyMel21 wrote: »I'm just curious...how do you all keep track of your longer distance swims??? usually in my head I'm all "la la la, breath, water in my mouth, oops, ok now breath, la la la" and have no idea what lap I'm on, lmao
@MonkeyMel21 I think I can speak for all swimmers - Been There - Done that. Yes I accidentally drink pool water and lose count quite often especially if I am only doing Front crawl - long distance. That's why I do drill-sets as it is a good way to guide you to longer distances and improve your stroke. Another thing I do to keep track is Mini sets 10 lengths front crawl ( 250m) 10 of breast, 10 back, 10 front etc, etc.
That is basically what I did at lunch today
250 Fr, 250 Breast, 250 back, 250 fr, 250 br, 250 fr = 1500m
No Drills today.
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2750 in 61 minutes. I sneak in a few minutes before "official" lap swim time -- I know the coaches for the youth swim team and they actually clear a lane for me before they really have to, which I appreciate (taking them for drinks next week). I'm stuck at this speed, though, which I have to break through. Seems so close to my 3K yards in an hour and I don't think I can do it before the pool moves to 45 minute evening swim next week.2
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2000yard/56:201
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54 laps in 72 minutes-- including 5 lengths of butterfly (yay me!)5
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Does your pool have a clock for you to use? If you know that you do a certain distance in a set amount of time (say 50 yards every 45 seconds) you can use that to help figure out how far you have gone...though it does include a bit of math.0
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45 minutes in yesterday, hoping for another 45-60 today. I tried out some of the drills you guys suggested. Wow! What a huge help. I kept thinking what a GREAT resource this board is, and all of your collective wisdom and experience.
Thanks everyone!
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2300m
400 warmup
2x 200 free on 3.30
2x 200 kick
2x 100 free as PB +<12s
400 as 200 back 100 free 100 br
400 IM
100 warmdown
Needless to say the 400IM at the end was not my idea of a good time!3 -
7KM today. 7 km Thursday. Rest day in Friday.1
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I'm really happy for you, fishgutzy, that you get to do your swimming in China. Must make your experience there much different from other times.2
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2000y 56:141
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I'm really happy for you, fishgutzy, that you get to do your swimming in China. Must make your experience there much different from other times.
Very much so. Mental health state is vastly improved. Still don't like being here. But at least it is now quite a bit more tolerable.
Less stress. Less agitation at minor crap.1 -
Second trip to the gym today was for the weight room. I hate wiping of sweat.1
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Today was our work party at the pool -- all families have to contribute two hours or pay an extra fee. I did an hour of shoveling and hauling beauty bark and then (after a shower, of course) got in the pool for laps. 1900 yards in 42 minutes.4
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Today was a unique day. Running club 10km this morning. They zigged - I zagged as a result I didn't see them except from about 5km away from a viewpoint on one hill looking across the valley at the other hill.
Had a amazing - unique swim workout tonight. Tri-Athlon Club open water practise in the pool. Sighting, passing, crowd swimming etc. Various drills all front crawl. 1500m.
@nuffer I like the community work bee for your pool. Un fortunately labor laws-legal liability here has ended a lot of that.3 -
Class today. Five absolute beginners, a lifeguard subbing in as teacher, and me. I did some laps and helped teach; what else could I do. At least I felt useful
Then I went and lifted weights.3 -
MightyLolo wrote: »Class today. Five absolute beginners, a lifeguard subbing in as teacher, and me. I did some laps and helped teach; what else could I do. At least I felt useful
Then I went and lifted weights.
Wow, Are you used to doing coaching? I would like to help others, but not sure I'm ready for that step.
That said, I ended my swim early today and was sitting up on the deck where I could watch the lap swimmers from above today and felt like there was a lot of very basic advice I could give to some of those in the pool doing laps. It was a real eye-opener for me to watch some of the people I've been next to for many weekends or evenings in the past. Lots of excessive crossover, lack of rolling for a breath, and kicking from the knees. I'm far from an expert, but these basics were easy to observe. Lots of extra work in the water that was not helping them move forward. I know I am in that camp as well...0 -
Wow, Are you used to doing coaching? I would like to help others, but not sure I'm ready for that step.
I've taught English, German, Chinese, sewing, and knitting....but these were complete beginners, and the poor lifeguard had clearly never taught before. I was comfortable helping them get their legs up near the surface, kick from the hip instead of just the knee, that kind of thing. 1 -
Today's class was better. I worked on whip kicks, and endurance in crawl.
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2300m
300 warmup
4x 100 as 25 scull 25 fly 25 scull 25 br
3x 200 kick as 200 free 200 back 200 br
6x 100IM on 2.30
3x 1 minute vertical kick (no fins)
2x 150 back
100 easy
Blew myself up in the IMs so the 150s were slow!1 -
I was going to swim today. I had planned on doing 50m "sprints" for 25-30 minutes after a nice warm up. But the lifeguard AGAIN didn't show up on time to open the pool. So I ran a 5k on the treadmill in my swim suit (with sweats and a tank top on over it, didn't bring extra underwear). It was so humid that pretty much everything I had on was soaked anyway, lol. Oh-well. I'm writing a complaint this time, it's happened twice since I started up swimming again a couple weeks ago.1
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That said, I ended my swim early today and was sitting up on the deck where I could watch the lap swimmers from above today and felt like there was a lot of very basic advice I could give to some of those in the pool doing laps. It was a real eye-opener for me to watch some of the people I've been next to for many weekends or evenings in the past. Lots of excessive crossover, lack of rolling for a breath, and kicking from the knees. I'm far from an expert, but these basics were easy to observe. Lots of extra work in the water that was not helping them move forward. I know I am in that camp as well...
@nuffer What you were at my pool looking at me. Sounds like a lot of the items I am constantly working on.
@emmab0902 I understand the blowin yourself up on the IM's. I don't do fly but have had items scheduled in the middle of my workout that destroyed the rest of the swim.1 -
Today: 1 mile (1800 YD) @ 75 minutes1
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7KM yesterday and today.
Walked back to the apartment after.
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2300m
300 warmup
4x 100 as 25 scull 25 fly 25 scull 25 br
3x 200 kick as 200 free 200 back 200 br
6x 100IM on 2.30
3x 1 minute vertical kick (no fins)
2x 150 back
100 easy
Blew myself up in the IMs so the 150s were slow!
6x 100 IM on 2:30 is complete nastiness I would have died after that. Kudos to you speedster!1 -
MightyLolo wrote: »
Wow, Are you used to doing coaching? I would like to help others, but not sure I'm ready for that step.
I've taught English, German, Chinese, sewing, and knitting....but these were complete beginners, and the poor lifeguard had clearly never taught before. I was comfortable helping them get their legs up near the surface, kick from the hip instead of just the knee, that kind of thing.
Helping others with technique always makes you more aware of what you need to do for yourself. It makes you think about how to break it down and explain it. Then you can use the same reminders for yourself. Good on ya for assisting!2 -
2300m
300 warmup
4x 100 as 25 scull 25 fly 25 scull 25 br
3x 200 kick as 200 free 200 back 200 br
6x 100IM on 2.30
3x 1 minute vertical kick (no fins)
2x 150 back
100 easy
Blew myself up in the IMs so the 150s were slow!
6x 100 IM on 2:30 is complete nastiness I would have died after that. Kudos to you speedster!
Haha the 2.30 was fine. It was having a visiting young person in our lane and so pushing them to all between 1.30 and 1.25 is what blew me up. My PB is only a 1.23!2
