Did you swim today?
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No but decided to try the rowing machine. First time I've touched it in about 18 months because I hate it and it's instant death. Was fun for about the first 36 seconds then increasingly awful. 5000m in 25:45 and the blisters are already popping up!0
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AM Swim in a crowded pool before work. 5 people/lane so again making it hard to get into a rhythm.
Free and Breast 40 lengths = 1000m.
Sat on my @ss all day driving, 350km to a job site, just to find that the Network Servers and Computer Routers were not operational and they had no time line on when they would go live. Considering they were supposed to go live last week. So my day was wasted, turned around and drove 350km back home.
Got home to late for another swim and just didn't have the motivation/energy for a run.0 -
@juliet3455, thank you for the info!0
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Rehearsal-- i mean swim practice-- is going well. Two weeks til opening night! ~80 minutes, maybe 66 laps?2
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4500 yards @ 85 minutes
So my typical workout, but I tried something different towards the end on my last set of 10 x 50's. I am typically a two beat kick sort, and I worked in 6 beat kick on the freestyle portion. I have always done a faster kick on backstroke so that was no different. Wow, it feels very different. I may have to play around more with this.0 -
Adult Swim Club 2000m
Warm up, 50 Free, 50 Back, 50 Kick, 50 pull
4 x on 10s RI.
75m Back - One arm 25m R, 25m L, 25m Swim
75m Front - One arm 25m R, 25m L, 25m Swim
4 x on 15s RI.
75m Free Pull Breathing on 3,5,7 strokes
75m Free 25m sprint 50m Easy
100m Back 25m Sprint - 75m easy
25, 50, 75, 100m Free Ladder. Sprint First 25m, Easy for remainder
50m Breast w Dolphin kick
100m Breast alt 25m sprint/easy
200m Cool down Mixed Stroke Choice
I could really feel the weak points in my stroke when doing the one arm drill.
That's a drill that I will keep in my personal list. I definitely could feel how my kick and stroke affected my speed/rotation in the water. Will recommend that drill to anyone/everyone.
On Front Crawl it worked best to leave my non-swim arm ahead of me in stream-line position, and I did 2 stroke breathing.
On Back Stroke it was the other way around, non-swim arm at my side.
Really makes you concentrate on kick efficiency.
When you go from 1 arm to full swim you feel like a Olympic Athlete in the speed you suddenly have and maintain for the full 25m.1 -
7250 y for the week, shoulder is feeling much better. Rest and pad thai for the win!1
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4000 @ 75 minutes - elbow is sore, so sorting out what is causing it so that I can continue while it heals. I have a feeling it is something I am doing on my flip turns...oddly enough. Rest it over the weekend.0
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80 minutes today-- that's 4X this week.
It will be weird when I get done with this play and go back to counting laps!2 -
1200m of mixed strokes. Back, Front and Breast.
1 double lane and 6 swimmers and we were all very different abilities. So it was hard to get a rhythm
Did a bunch of the 1 arm Back Stroke and Front Crawl drills, I really like them and they will be a regular thing in my routine. Still it was a swim so all is good. Also threw in some flip turn practises and dolphin kick. Sometimes it seems like the small broken - disorganized swims offer the most technical improvements.1 -
2000m
400 free
400 back
200 as free/back/free/br
200 back kick
4x100 free on 2.10 as 75 easy 25 fast
All were 1.18
100 loosen
2x 100IM
100 warmdown
Need new goggles - mine only have two settings - bathing my eyes in chlorine or cutting off my cerebral blood flow. And sometimes both at once.
Also learned that swimming the day after going on the rower = dead arms!0 -
@emmab0902 You should try swimming after a HM = dead legs = No kick, and as a Male recreational swimmer I only have 40-60% of the kick power/technique that ladies have so get the float fins out to save the day. Goggle trouble is always frustrating. It took me 3 years to find a replacement, the manufacture discontinued the model I was using and I was grumpy.
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juliet3455 wrote: »@emmab0902 You should try swimming after a HM = dead legs = No kick, and as a Male recreational swimmer I only have 40-60% of the kick power/technique that ladies have so get the float fins out to save the day. Goggle trouble is always frustrating. It took me 3 years to find a replacement, the manufacture discontinued the model I was using and I was grumpy.
I'd have to manage to do a HM first lol0 -
4000 yards @ 70 minutes - elbow still a bit tweaked0
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4500 @ 85 minutes0
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3600m
400 free
200 kick
200 pull
7x 50 alt free and back on 60
100 free sub 1.18 on 2.00
50 free sub 40 on 1.00
8x 25 as odds 10m uw 15 swim evens build
2x 100 free sub 1.18 on 2.00
2x 50 free sub 40 on 1.00
8x 25 as odds 10m uw 15 swim evens build
200 easy
3x 100 free sub 1.18 on 2.00
3x 50 free sub 40 on 1.00
8x 25 as odds 10m uw 15 swim evens build
250 easy
500 as 50 back 25 fly kick on back
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1575m
200m Warmup; 50m Fr, 50m bk, 50m Kick, 50m choice
3 x 100m, Free, Back, Breast
25m Drill, 50m Dist/Strk, 25m Hard
Timed swim 10 mins 19 lengths = 475m
Dolphin kick 6 x 50m
Flip Turns 100m
Cooldown 200m1 -
95 minutes, people!
Jump in the water. . come on baby, get we with me!2 -
Just under an hour. Rose, that's a long time! You distance folks are something else. Way to get the time in!!1
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First swim of this coins trip last night.
More people doing front crawl.
Actually had the lane to myself for about 10 minutes.
It would still be nice if the life guards kept slow people out if the one "fast" lane.
Kept lapping a breast stroker in less than 2 laps.
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