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Frozen strawberries - recipe ideas please
The supermarket delivered frozen strawberries in error a while back - any recipe suggestions? (I’m secretly hoping for a good frozen strawberry and Greek yoghurt ‘instant icecream’ recipe! But all ideas are very welcome.) Thank you!
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Water rower questions
Hello I’m thinking of hiring a Water Rower. I know the C2 is generally thought a better machine and that hiring means I might get a ‘well-used’ machine...but A) limited hire options at the mo B) I want a machine I can ‘put away’ easily. So Water Rower users: - is it easily to put into upright tucked away against wall mode?…
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Swimming and flexibility
I've noticed when I don't swim that lots of things go south (mood, fitness, tummy, ability to burn off cake, shoulder tension ... etc etc) This latest year off, for the first time, I seem to have become a lot stiffer. (Eg right leg no longer wants to be kneeling. ) I am not a specially flexible person - and I have a…
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Active 10 app - and your steps
Hello all Over here in the UK the government etc is promoting an app called Active 10 which I have started using (alongside a step counter). It tells you at the end of the day how many minutes of your walking was 'brisk' - 3 miles an hour or more. It also tells you how often you keep this pace up for 10 mins or more (which…
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how fit is fit enough ?
I originally set one of my goals as 'to be fit at fifty' - I have not reached fifty yet, but I am certainly a lot fitter. By 'fit' I meant fit enough to enjoy life (eg I did the Devon Coast to Coast cycle ride last year, and walked lots of the Cornish coast path this year) and fit enough to keep the likelihood of…
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Ideas please!
We are getting a puppy very soon and that will mean my blissfully uncrowded 9.30am morning swims will be hard for a bit. ( And it may well be best to focus on walking/cycling with dog in the mornings anyway, even if he becomes used to being left home alone fairly soon.) I have health issues and still usually need rest…
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Which other groups are you in?
i really like this group - supportive (lots of really engaged comment on each others posts), sharing of technique tips and training suggestions, a focus on the positive., I've gained overtime a real sense of each others characters and approach/goals Etc etc I've dipped my toe into an excercise challlenge thread - which to…
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my lessons - for next time in 'maintenance'
I lost 15lbs or so a while back using MFP - upping Excercise and controlling my portion size / sweet Tooth. I stopped logging, and MFP befriending but kept swimming and am a regular on a swimming group here. I have about 15lbs to lose all over again and I have been reviewing my weight history etc I have been reflecting on…
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Daft calorie question
this is daft for quite a reasons - including the fact I don't calorie count (at least not in a MFP logging sort of way...) any more Anyway - given your average 150lb burns say 70 cals just slumped in front of the tele for an hour ... when MFP and other calculators talk about say 500 cals burned for an hour of swimming - is…
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Why did you stop?
There seems to be a common theme that a lot of this group were keen swimmers in their youth ..... Why did you stop and what is going to keep you going this time? I did not have the bug as a kid, and I wonder what might help disrail me that I need to guard against...
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Why do you swim?
I found myself musing on how this has changed over time for me. To lose a bit of weight / be fitter were both early motivations Being fitter as Graded Excercise Therapy to help overcome a nasty illness came next To help keep mentally positive and to demonstrate I am, so slowly (grrr), still getting better - amongst the…
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My latest lessons ... Read on if you get back/shoulder pain or just like coaching
I thought I'd share what I've been learning in my latest coaching. It is Alexander Technique based - which - in case you do not know - is really good for people with bad backs, RSI etc and based on relearning really good/natural body alignment. I started them as I noticed when I was trying to increase my speed/distance…
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Daft breast-stoke question?
How quickly do you go from one full stroke to the next? I do middling on breast. My stroke looks pretty good, I overtake quite a few people, but I am still overtaken by others with obvious technical flaws (heads up, screw kick or whatever). This is obviousky annoying! I suspect I am not catching the water that efficiently…
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Not having much luck ...
So for my last swim (after far too many cancelled due to family commitments) - my daughter and I made a big effort, going to a pool we hardly ever use that is an unattractive 30 mins walk away on a bitterly cold day. But only the laps pool is open (boiler bust for the kiddie splash pool) and she starts doing lengths with…
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What do you think about when you swim?
I am usually thinking about my technique (or lack of). But I had an interesting swim yesterday. I was a bit fed up with various life niggles, and couldn't settle on one of my usual routines for my swim. So I decided to set myself the challenge of using each lap to think of things i could do that would make me feel more…
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Any suggestions?
I don't count laps conventionally - I do pneumonics (eg FITATFIFTY means first lap Front, then Intermediate Medley for the next 4 laps, then ITop and Tail some laps with sprints, A is Arm drills etc). I have a couple of 1k patterns sorted and a great one for a mile - fittingly worked out around SWIMMINGCHALLENGE .(!) Well…
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Yeah ...! One for us slow coaches. And 2 questions..
I have been working up to this post for quite a long time.... (Er a few years in fact), but today was my first ever mile. Please excuse the mini brag but I am very happy with myself. Ok it took just over an hour (but half was drills, that plays a part) but at least I did make it. I am particularly pleased cos I've had a…
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Under water hockey
They are starting a new under water hockey team near me - mainly aimed at kids but adult novices will be welcome. Anyone played it ...? Is it fun? I am a reasonably ok swimmer (by no means great but i can plod out 800-1000m ok with reasonable technique) and am looking for some new things to do in the water. I suspect the…
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As my pool is closing...
My pool is closing this weekend ~ worry not a new one opens on Monday. But I thought I would do a 'lap of honour' and give myself a new challenge to mark this change. I started lessons about a year or so ago and in particular swimming front crawl really freaked me - especially in the deep end. But with lessons and time I…
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Butterfly help
i've been having fun in my swimming lessons learning - amongst other things - the butterfly. I can do 3 or 4 complete strokes ok, and can do a length with just one arm going (or alternating with both arms and just breathing on the one arm bit). Occasionally I can even get a breath working properly with both arms - but only…
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Waterproof iPhone covers?
hi Does anyone (successfully!) use a waterproof cover for their iPhone when swimming. I would be a bit scared to try one that is not recommended! Thanks
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Waterproof cover for iPhone _ any suggestions?
hi Are there any really waterproof covers out there for iPhones? I would want to take mine swimming .... Thanks for your help!
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Waterproof cover for iPhone _ any suggestions?
hi Are there any really waterproof covers out there for iPhones? I would want to take mine swimming .... Thanks for your help!
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A 10% more in march challenge
there doesn't appear to have been a challenge up here for a while so who is up for a '10%' more challenge? Could be 10% more lengths, or faster, or more of your hardest stroke in your mix, or more sessions... You choose! I will be going for 10% more lengths in the time I get to swim (usually 30 mins) and including 10% more…
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hello swimmers - want to join a March challenge?
Hi There is new challenge for March in the group forums - the group is called Swimmers! Come and join the group and even the challenge if you want. It's to do '10% more in march'- you chose what ( faster, longer, more intervals, the stroke you find most challenging..etc) It took me a while to find this group but there are…
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Some more questions for swimmers
some of you gave me some really helpful novice swimmer suggestions a few months ago I am now having group lessons at my local pool (great), happily swming for 30 with few rests, learning dolphin, have discovered my breaststroke technique is pretty good and improving and managed to get myself to do the odd lap of crawl. It…
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A question for swimmers
I go swimming once a week while my little girl has a swimming lesson (there are lots of lessons going on at the time,30 kids or so and I am the only parent who strips off too, splashes around with my daughter for a bit and then swims during her lesson !) I usually do 30 mins of a mixture of breaststroke and back crawl…
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time to set some new goals!
I'm very excited - after about 6 months logging calories, shifting my body a bit more and logging in regularly to mfp to read people's stories I have pretty much made my weight loss goal. Ok it was modest - just 10 lbs - but I really wanted to stop a drift in the wrong direction, and it has taken a bit of stern talking to…
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Calling time on my growing 'middle aged spread' - 47 London
Hi everyone My first post, but I've been on this site for months and have learned tons and kept motivated by it! This summer I came to the conclusion I really had to address my increasing waist band before I started getting seriously obese. I wasn't pleased to realise I was 160 pounds (i'm 5' 7") and showing it. I've been…
