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bodyflow workout (tai chi/yoga hybrid) at my gym yesterday ...made me sore in muscles that swimming doesnt ... 61 minutes today, all continuous crawl

62 minutes ...i think im gonna try a tai chi class tomorrow ...

Understand that the condition is very individualized. The early stages after diagnoses are all about personal discovery. Test often, log everything. Try to figure out what foods cause you to spike ...and what levels give you control. For me 100g of carbs is my tipping point. Under I am fine, over and I have high fasting…

I do weight watchers for the community/accountability/educational aspects. But I use MFP for my food log, specifically because I want greater visibility into my carb consumption instead of just overall consumption with the 'points'. I've found my personal tipping point seems to be 100g of carbs a day. If I keep under that…

62 minutes ...slower today ..1825m

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ok so 5:1 last week, did my first 8:1 ratio tonight. I'm going for a geometric progression +1, +2, +3 ...etc. So 2:1, 3:1, 5:1, 8:1 ...but I may have reached the useful limit of this change ...we will see how I feel at the end of the week.

Wow that is ffrakin impressive! I am so so jealous! Yesterday was a lazy day. Or I could be all cool and call it a 'rest day'... but mostly I just didn't want to get off my butt and go to the pool. 63 minutes tonight, 50 minute mile, 2k total. 8:1 Crawl:Other stroke ratio

62 minutes ...didn't count but I felt slow and lazy Dog sitting again this weekend so I did drylander workouts the last two days. Felt SOOOOO much better to get back to the pool.

30 minute swim, then 60 minute water aerobics ...my swim got interrupted.

Let me just get a plug in for swimming as exercise. When I was diagnosed (January) my doc said start with 30 mins of daily exercise, whatever type you want, and increase by 5 minutes every 2 weeks. Then he went on to encourage walking. I think they do that because its sort of the path of least resistance. Doesn;t require…

61 minutes, 52 minute mile, 1850m overall

LOST swim? Do you swim to an island in purgatory? Run away from a smoke beast? Travel to the past and future?

62 minutes ...1975m total, my 1 mile was at 50 minutes ...little bummed that my mile speed hasn't improved in the last 3 weeks. I thought reducing the breast stroke from 25% to 8% would give me some gain ... Starting to give some thought to learning/incorporating flip turns ...won't help if I ever do a triathalon open…

62 minutes ..first 5:1 crawl ratio day

62 minutes ...did elliptical yesterday ...been doing 3:1 crawl:other for a week, planning to up to 5:1 tomorrow. just keeping up with my crawl ratio is starting to feel like counting laps.

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ok so I was dog/house sitting this weekend further from my Gym. But the house had an elliptical and a recumbent in the sunroom. So I did two days of dryland work on them, 65 minutes each day. Easy settings, but my legs felt gone when I was done and are still a little sore two days later. Also the recumbent seriously…

62 minutes, 3:1 crawl ratio ...found i could count since every 4th length was different. so 52 min mile, 1925m total.

Hanging Rock ...are you also in NC? Your picture actually looks ALOT like a friend of mine that also travels to China doing IT work ...but I know your not the same fella.

61minutes today, felt strong. I'm dog/house sitting this weekend so the last two days i did drylander workouts, felt so good to get back in the pool. My calves really protested the dryland work during the swim.

My dietician's initial advise was 180g, I'm now trying to keep it under 100g. My MFP goal is set to 30% of my calories

Best advice i got when learning to keep my head down in the crawl was to start out by thinking of the breath as a 'pause' in the stroke instead of trying to do it all at once. As you get comfortable the pause gets shorter and shorter, and before you know it becomes part of the routine.

62 minutes ...starting to acclimate to additional crawls in the rotation ...

Hey Sara ....I'm relatively new to the swimming thing myself, I'm about 4 months into it. For me an early key was to swim alternating stroke types up and down the pool. I can 'catch my breath' on the backstrokes where my face is out of water for the entire length. Depending on your aerobic fitness that may not be an issue.…

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63 minutes ...definitely feeling the increased crawl ratio in my stroke rotation.