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Bruised sternum frustrations
Hello everyone - I haven't been on here for a while as I haven't been able to swim for a fortnight after badly bruising my sternum. Worse of all was that I had the accident when getting into the swimming pool - it was my own fault for not using the pool ladder properly, slipping, banging onto the handrail with my full…
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Back with a rash....
No - not that sort of rash ;) Hello everyone - sorry not been on for a while. Have been swimming every day but I used to post during work breaks, but now access to any sort of "chat room" etc has been cut-off by IT and when I get home from work I have almost forgotten how I swam that morning. Now for the rash bit - all of…
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Masters swimming - gulp
So, I decided the only way to get better was to investigate masters teams. The one that suits my schedule (they train at all times 7 days a week) insists on a trial before joining. Gulp. I gave them an indication of what I can and can not do and they have allowed me to trial, so its not all bad. I know I could email them…
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UK Swimmers - Swimathon!!!
For those of you in the UK that might not have heard of this, Swimathon is a yearly charity event across the country that we can sign up to in order to raise money for Marie Curie. http://www.swimathon.org/ For the past two years I signed up to the 5km individual swim - 1st year completed in 1 hour 59 mins and 55 secs,…
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Article with Swimming Tips
Saw this and thought the group might find it interesting / useful. http://www.runnersworld.co.uk/triathlete/triathlon-swim/seven-steps-to-better-swimming-technique/4520.html
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Bragging time :)
I am so pleased with my efforts that I have to shout about it!! Finally, this morning I managed to swim 1 mile in 30 mins - in fact I swam 2 miles crawl in exactly 60 mins!! Brilliant - this was a goal I have had in mind for the past 18 months (when I could swim a mile in 40 mins). I can't believe I have done it - now the…
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Treading water for Kung Fu
My Kung Fu instructor has asked me to spend 5 minutes per swim treading water with my body as high out of the water as possible (preferably with the tops of my hips above the surface) so that I can get stronger for his classes. I haven't tried this yet but it sounds like being both very hard and great fun at the same time.…
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2nd Butterfly lesson and its official...
I can do butterfly and I have a nice style to my stroke! My teacher just watched me do the drills I had been practicing and told me to put it together with one kick, one arms (no breath), one kick and breathe. I just got on with it for a full length and she cheered and said, yep, that's butterfly and it looks good. That's…
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First proper butterfly lesson
I have had a few lessons to top up crawl technique (almost perfect), breaststroke (perfect), backstroke (little more work needed) and plucked up the courage to ask the instructor to finally teach me fly. Boy was that hard! Kudos to all of you who can do this, as I couldn't get the arm/hip co-ordination at all. Have a…
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Keeping the toning simple
I see a lot of posts on here about doing weights / planks etc wanting to tone up the bottom, stomach, thighs etc and wanted to remind everyone that you can keep it simple and train these areas all day long during everyday activities as well as when you are at the gym :) Bottom - just keep clenching and then clench some…
