Did you swim today?
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Today: 1 mile @ 52 minutes2
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12,000 meters in 4 daily swims this week!1
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Today; 1 mile @ 53 minutes1
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9,000m over 3 daily swims this week until gout appeared.
Will resume next week!1 -
Monday, the state shut down health clubs and restaurants due to rising covid cases. The Y closed down the gym, the workout center (aerobics and weights) and racquetball court, leaving open only childcare and the pool. Whew!0
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Some days, you know, and some days you don't.
Today, a little freestyle--wondering where in the stroke, power is most effectively applied. Then a little backstroke wondering the same and if I rotated sufficiently.
Did 4-6 laps of dolphin kicks emphasizing the navel (hip?) as the initiation point of each kick and did a few laps of one-arm-fly. A few 25's of full stroke butterfly felt incredibly smooth and fluid. When it feels that good, you know you crushed it. As for the next workout, maybe.
A few laps of breast stroke finished the 40 minute workout.
Cheers!0 -
Last week: 9,000 meters over 3 daily swims!
Still on Keto!0 -
kayak4water wrote: »Some days, you know, and some days you don't.
Today, a little freestyle--wondering where in the stroke, power is most effectively applied. Then a little backstroke wondering the same and if I rotated sufficiently.
Cheers!
I guess just after the high elbow catch with your palm facing behind you to the back wall, then maximum power is applied!1 -
Today: 1 mile @ 50 minutes1
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This week: 9,000 meters in 3 daily swims!0
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Well government just revised the guidelines, so that may be my last swim of the year 😭0
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Thankfully still swimming!
This week 8,000m in 3 daily swims0 -
6.6km per swim! That is nuts!1 -
Five miles this past week.1
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AquaticQuests wrote: »
6.6km per swim! That is nuts!
I'm working up to 16km. That's the distance of a lap between two marinas in a lake near where I live. There are three open water races in three different lakes near where I live. Complete all three races in a year, and you're a Utah Triple Crown winner. Fewer than 30 people have done it. I'd like to be one of them. The last race is the 16 km one, so I'm doing long swims M-F and adding more on Saturdays each month until I'm at 16 km. According to my schedule, I'll hit that in July, and the last race is in August.0 -
This week: 9,000 meters over 3 daily swims
Times are improving so im probably getting keto adapted!0 -
AquaticQuests wrote: »
6.6km per swim! That is nuts!
I'm working up to 16km. That's the distance of a lap between two marinas in a lake near where I live. There are three open water races in three different lakes near where I live. Complete all three races in a year, and you're a Utah Triple Crown winner. Fewer than 30 people have done it. I'd like to be one of them. The last race is the 16 km one, so I'm doing long swims M-F and adding more on Saturdays each month until I'm at 16 km. According to my schedule, I'll hit that in July, and the last race is in August.
Wow. They say you can swim in a day what you swim in a week, and by that measure you can already do a 30km swim if you had to 😲1 -
Five miles this past week.0
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I've been lurking, just reading the posts here, as I've been aware my year out of swimming has left me woefully behind you guys in terms of distance (and speed, but that was always an issue! ;-) )
One of the speed issues was my inability to swim front crawl, so on my return I've been really working on it but it's always been, well, hard work! Until today. After 25 mins of hard swimming I had an extraordinary moment of just feeling like I was floating (yeah, I know how stupid that sounds). But my breathing settled, my arms and legs just glided through the pool. I felt like I was going slowly, but seemed to keep the same distance or less between me and the other swimmers in my lane. It was so deliciously lovely that I was tempted to swim for the whole 45 mins our pool allots each session, but I'm aware I've only just worked up to 35 mins this week and didn't want to push it too hard.
Anyways, just thought I'd share in the hopes there are other lurkers out there...!1 -
Swim slower relaxed and you will be faster.1
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So it seems! I went for my first front crawl throughout swim yesterday. A chap asked whether he could offer some advice - which I accepted, tried and then researched when i got home.
His advice:
1) stop rocking my hips from side to side. Staying flat throughout the stroke apparently improves the kick...
2) As soon as my hand enters the water, I should be pulling back, not stretching out and gliding for a moment...
3) I should stop breathing every 2nd stroke in favour of every 3rd, or even every 5th...
(I can see that last one, at least every 3rd - but thought I'd try and improve just one thing at a time - I.e swim for a full 35 mins none stop fc)
What's your thoughts on my new 'coach'?0 -
skinnyrev2b wrote: »I've been lurking, just reading the posts here, as I've been aware my year out of swimming has left me woefully behind you guys in terms of distance (and speed, but that was always an issue! ;-) )
One of the speed issues was my inability to swim front crawl, so on my return I've been really working on it but it's always been, well, hard work! Until today. After 25 mins of hard swimming I had an extraordinary moment of just feeling like I was floating (yeah, I know how stupid that sounds). But my breathing settled, my arms and legs just glided through the pool. I felt like I was going slowly, but seemed to keep the same distance or less between me and the other swimmers in my lane. It was so deliciously lovely that I was tempted to swim for the whole 45 mins our pool allots each session, but I'm aware I've only just worked up to 35 mins this week and didn't want to push it too hard.
Anyways, just thought I'd share in the hopes there are other lurkers out there...!
Fantastic! Way to go!!!0 -
skinnyrev2b wrote: »So it seems! I went for my first front crawl throughout swim yesterday. A chap asked whether he could offer some advice - which I accepted, tried and then researched when i got home.
His advice:
1) stop rocking my hips from side to side. Staying flat throughout the stroke apparently improves the kick...
2) As soon as my hand enters the water, I should be pulling back, not stretching out and gliding for a moment...
3) I should stop breathing every 2nd stroke in favour of every 3rd, or even every 5th...
(I can see that last one, at least every 3rd - but thought I'd try and improve just one thing at a time - I.e swim for a full 35 mins none stop fc)
What's your thoughts on my new 'coach'?
I'd agree with most save the issue of rotation. Whereas overrotation is a bad thing, but rotation is a good thing and enables you to effectively engage your core etc when applying power through the pull!
On stroke rate, pull, etc it is a balance between gliding and thus an innefectual stroke, and a hurried and innefficient stroke.
You need to find the sweet spot between the two extremes! I once did some personal experiments on this and posted about it here some years ago, of my personal experiences with some adjustments. Will find it and "bump" the thread!
Im no expert, just my own personal thoughts from what ive read, seen and experimented with.
There are more proficient swimmers who can chime in...3 -
Last week: 12,000 meters in 4 daily swims!1
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Thanks AQ :-)
Tried both rocking and trying not to rock and realised what he was saying is I was over egging the movement. 52 lengths in 40 mins today. :-)1 -
1200km in 40 mins today. Feeling very tired before I even got in, then was too fast for the medium lanes, but too slow for the fast! Decided to cut my losses with a medium fc, followed by my normal bs, which meant I was around about same speed as the chap in front, and we both swam around the other two in our lane.0
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Past week: 10,000 meters in 3 swims.
For the second swim I was fatigued even before Instarted and couldn't finish and called it quits at 2km.
3rd swim was a 5km swim in 2 hours.
I used to do long swims in December. A 5km swim in December 2013 and a 10km swim in December 2014. Then kind of dropped off the wagon.
So being back on the program thought I'd try a long swim this week.
So managed a 5 km swim. Surprisingly, I guess due due to Keto adaptation (and/or maybe because my weekly mileage is longer than it used to be), I wasn't tired nor hungry after the swim and didn't eat till evening.
Could have kept on swimming but ran out of time and needed to do some other stuff!
Pool is closed for the rest of the year except the 27th and 28th.
Thinking of attempting a 10km swim on one of those two days (and reliving 2014 lol) but will play it by ear.
A belated merry christmas to everyone!!! Blessings!
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