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AQ - I hate when the pool is full! Hopefully you'll have a nice quiet swim next time. Masters this morning - what a day to forget my water bottle! We did a kicking set that nearly did me in (I'm gonna add that to my routine, I think!). Coach said my stroke was looking great, so I just need to keep up my practice on…

*gigglesnort* definitely need a big beach towel for a cape.

I would never use swim shoes for laps. It would add extra drag and effect flexibility in my feet. I always use a Cap, but like Noel it's because of long hair drag. And chlorine damage too. When I was a kid my hair actually started to turn green from swimming. But I still didn't get one for a long time, so it's not really…

No swim today. I forced myself to take a rest day. Trying not to be all pouty about it.

Thank you for the replies, everyone. Lindsay - It sucks that you regained, but good that you're back at it. I'm worried about that if I take a break. I tend to get really goal oriented, but after three months I want to get onto other goals and I could see myself forgetting about weighing and following the things I need to…

Another fun swim with my 8yo buddy. He's getting much better, and I am exhausted from being used as a launch pad/personal floatation devise

I do three 'sets' of this exercise as he suggests, 3 times a week. This won't make you loose fat, per se, but it will increase your muscle mass if you currently don't do any strength. If you maintained your current weight while doing strength training, your body composition will change so that you have more lean tissue.…

Oh yes, definitely. Beyond planks, I'm a little lost on specific exercises to help that, except maybe 'engaging' my core during push-ups/squats/lunges. I practice dolphin kick/undulation in the pool, and that definitely works the core.

a brick (indoor pool). I help out my local special Olympics team and one of the athletes was telling me there was a corn-dog at the bottom of the pool. Really glad it was a brick. :)

2.25km swim (longest ever for one session!) in about 65minutes. Swam another 1k continuous (this time without anyone crashing into me) in 20:40. I think my goal shall be to get that down to under 18:30, meaning an average of 55sec per 50m (which is slower than my pace on a regular, non sprinting 50). Also worked on…

Out of curiosity, I timed myself on a 1k continuous during today's swim - 20:50. Not bad. I think I shall aim to improve that. :smile:

Unlikely. 3500 surplus calories equal a pound. Unless you went over your total burn for the two days by that much or more, you probably won't see a significant change. You might have some water weight kicking around, but that should go away after eating properly and drinking water for a few days. Also, unless you are…

I can only tell you what I do - I'm a novice at this. I started bodyweight training - I hate strength training, but knew I needed to include it in some form. Swimming apparently doesn't help improve/maintain bone density, so strength training helps with that (as well as hopefully strengthening my arms and legs so I can do…

I presume the 1 mile in 30 minutes in continuous free? I Swim 2km in about an hour, but that's with warm-up, drills, other strokes, and cool-down all thrown in. I've swum 1km continuous, but I didn't time myself. I would guess 20minutes. Sprinting, I'm 46sec/50m in a 25 meter pool. For long stretches, I'm more 55sec/50m. I…

I've got about 10lbs left to lose (26yo, 5'3 and 141lb) and am set for 1400cal, and I'm eating back about 3/4 my exercise calories. (In theory. I've been hungry this week). I'm not sedentary though, and I exercise quite a bit.

Oh, wow! That's an amazing improvement!

45 min of drills (and warm up/cool down). I swam nearly a whole length of butterfly! (With fins...)

5 miles is great if you haven't been exercising/on a bike in a while. As long as you get your heart rate up and are moving you're doing good work.

Next time, tell yourself "I will go in and put my running shoes on and look around. I don't even have to do anything, just go and look around." That's all you have to do. If you don't do anything else, you've done your goal. If you feel up to it, you can try getting on a treadmill for a little and walking. You might - the…

1 hour at masters. We pretty much do mostly drills and technical stuff which I love. Now I have to practice my homework of rotating more on my stroke.

45 min, 1.5 km total. Really focusing on how my hands enters the water. I have masters tomorrow so I'm hoping to get some more feedback on that. Ooo, and my hands paddles arrived today, so I'll be trying them out tomorrow. :smiley:

You could be eating a lot more than you think if you don't weight and measure. Example: 1 'slice' of white bread on the counter is 67cal. When I weigh my bread, it comes to 120cal on average (45g slice) which is even bigger than the 'large' slice (80cal). If I eat a sandwich, or two pieces of toast, that's a pretty huge…

I think everyone, at some point, has worked on something in swimming and had it amount to drinking a lot of pool water. :) I did that with flip turns. Keep going Curls, you'll get it.

1750m today - 1000m of that was continuous* which was farther than I've tried before. I was very much losing form by the end. *continuous with the exception of throwing a ball out of my lane and snarking at a kid for swimming into me. Is March break over yet?

lol. You'll be swimming great before you know it. :wink: Good to know about not being able to estimate for drills. I do a lot of drills, and that would effect my results. But I could definitely see the Garmin coming in useful someday.

I do #2... I'm so lazy. I know I should be doing #1

How accurate do you find the data is? I was looking at that one (though I def can't afford it right now).

I can't do a pull-up in the slightest (still working on that push-up!) but I was wondering what other people thought of the pullup progresson on this chart. The Push-Up one makes sense, so I was thinking when I decided to start working it in that I would use this progression:…

After a whole week of being sick (and then making sure I was recovered) I got back in the pool today. *sigh* I was all antsy from not swimming. 2km in 60minutes, lots of drills with the hand paddles and sprints.

If you input the salad in recipes it's a lot easier to log, but yeah you really do have to weigh everything. An apple or banana is easily 100+cal. Weight watchers is much different than weight watchers, and I believe the reason they stopped giving points for fruit and veg is because it would really be less than half a…