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  • I don't see anything wrong with it. It's normal to drop more dramatically in the beginning. If you feel good, keep doing what you're doing.
  • Every time I swim. The first mile is straight through doing freestyle/front crawl. The second two miles are broken into sets. It usually takes me between 95-110 minutes depending on how I vary the sets and how I feel on any given day. Today was my personal best. One of my MFP friends does 7-10k/day. He's training to swim…
  • I've got a new goal: 5k in 85 minutes. Today's time: 89:45
  • Always. I usually find myself thinking about what I'm going to eat after I'm done whilst in the middle of my swim. I find that if I get a proper cool down and stretch time immediately after my workout, have a protein shake on hand, and hydrate well, the hunger usually goes away. Anecdotally, I was perusing a swim forum on…
  • Papa Murphy's chicken bacon artichoke pizza is 179 cal/slice and delicious. This is the easiest way to "make" low cal pizza. http://feaf0607108c567940ca-4fff68515b3b54da1eb906d30e23ed66.r6.cf5.rackcdn.com/130/nutrition_info.pdf
  • Got any room for non-obnoxious Americans in this group? I'm in the swimming group, but the lack of challenges that get thrown down there is disappointing. I've been in a bit of a rut lately when it comes to my swimming, and the short term goals here might be just what I need to get out.
  • So he's walking and humping the water? That's creepy. I think that would be cause to have him thrown out. When I was a lifeguard in high school, we saw some pretty dirty things going on in the water. We even had to ban a few people for life. Let's add that to the list of what I hate: when people get overly sexual in the…
  • I'm too busy reading for school to read for pleasure, but I heard about a book on the radio this morning that I desperately want to read called The Cutting Season by Attica Locke.
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  • I have never drank alcohol, but one of my favorite drinks is a good lemonade (I prefer fresh squeezed, but Simply brand makes a good lemonade) mixed with frozen fruit of your choice in a blender and a single mint leaf blended. This works particularly well with strawberries, cherries, blackberries, raspberries, peaches, and…
  • Are said bumps and grinds against the wall, walking in an upright position, or while going down the lane? This makes a difference because the first one is really gross, the second one is kinda weird, and the third could be a really poor attempt at dolphin kicking.
  • I'm less than half your age, and I swam competitively when I was younger. I know a lot of others here swam competitively as well. Some have even competitively swam at the college level, and so you shouldn't feel bad that your times don't compare. I like to play basketball, and in a pickup game last night, we had a 6'10"…
  • I haven't ever tried that specific of an approach to swimming, but it looks like it'll work to me.
  • I thought of one more thing during my swim today. Have you tried dolphin kick drills on your back, just to get the feel of it? Sometimes it's easier to get the proper form for kicking on your back because your body is naturally more buoyant when floating on your back. Your legs are less likely to drag, and so you can…
  • Have you tried a monofin? A monofin with a big blade might help straighten you out naturally.
  • The reason you're finding that most people in the forum talk in yards is that most people in the forum are American swimmers, and here in the U.S. of A., we cannot be bothered with practicalities like an easy 10 based measuring system. However, Google is a great resource for meters to yards. If you search, "how many yards…
  • 2 mile time dropped to 55:55. No additional drops.
  • Yellowstone National Park. It's amazing during any time of year.
  • Pocket Ninjas is by far the worst movie ever. It's so bad that it's good. I highly recommend it for anybody wishing to see a hilariously bad movie. Deep Impact sucked. My third choice is some movie I saw in the mid-90s where the plot somewhat revolved around teenagers fighting bad guys while rolling around in ATVs equipped…
  • I lost a big chunk of weight over the summer, and when I returned to school, these were some of the things my classmates said to me: "Oh my gosh, you're so skinny! What's happening to you?" "Are you disappearing?" "Whoa! Look at this! We've got Brad Pitt over here." (That was one from a friend of mine who legitimately…
  • Mormon pioneers used pickle juice to prevent cramping as they walked from what is now Omaha, NE to Salt Lake City, UT. The BYU football team has been using it as well, and studies have shown that it helps with both faster cramp relief (85 seconds as opposed to 134-153 seconds), and prevention. Bottom line is that it works.…
  • I'm an amateur distance swimmer, and I am strictly a swimmer. I've been swimming on and off since high school. I swim in a pool for two to three miles per day. I swim with a few guys who do tris including one guy who does every Iron Man he can. I'm faster than all of them. I would say that any mile 30 min or under is…
  • Oreo cookies, especially after a big swim. Some recent studies show that rats have the same kind of responses to the stimulus of Oreos as they do to cocaine. It totally didn't surprise me.
  • I'm on the other side of this debate. I'm going to stuff my face until I can't walk and fall into a significant food coma.
  • All of my lost weight has come from swimming and diet. They say that diet is about 80% of weight loss, and I'm inclined to believe it. However, swimming will develop and work muscles that just don't get worked in quite the same way as any land based exercise, and the added cardio that swimming provides will add to any…
  • 1800 dropped to 22:15, and I couldn't believe it today. 2 miles dropped to 56:35 last week sometime.
  • The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
  • I hate when the Bro. comes into the locker room only to use the suit mate to wring out his sweaty shirt.
  • Whole Foods has a very reasonably priced breakfast burrito. They also have a barrel of cheese cuts that are the outsides of the wheels with more waxy stuff than what they sell by the lb. It's much cheaper but it's the same cheese, and if you take the waxy outside off, you can use it in soups when making the broth. It makes…
  • The wheat bread and any of the jams/jellies. When my whole team was having a bad day at work, I bought some and brought it in to share. Everybody's mood was instantly lifted, and it turned the day completely around. We made jam and bread day a regular thing after that. Also, my wife really loves the chocolate covered Bing…
  • Carne asada; fries; carne asada fries with cheese, sour cream, and pico; eating whatever I wanted when I wanted to eat it; energy drinks to keep me going during school; no regular exercise; and a slowing metabolism as I hit my late 20s - early 30s. How I've lost most of it: diligence; determination; will power; 1500…
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