swimming for fitness

Well done on the knickers rights 😂

Good going on the 1100m! Was that continuous? That's a good interval time for a mile. Only 400m short!

I went yesterday afternoon. Week one, day one of my ZeroToAMile programme.

I already swam 1200m (with stops) last time out, 1000 prior to that with a couple of smash and grab sessions between.

The 700m wasn't the issue, it's the breaths between the sets! You're not quite as recovered as you'd like, but you have a limited number of breaths until you go again.

I think the work I'd done in class to kick (in general) and higher and harder didn't help the distance.

Back in the pool tomorrow I think for another 700m and sharpie on my arm to help me focus on sets and breaths.

I did a swim this morning as well - 1.5k, 45 mins according to Swimtag. The pool was a bit busy though - need to get up earlier.

Are you all still asleep?!
Did 1.1K - the 0.1K is the extra 4 lengths. 33 mins. Nearly empty pool.

On with the week then!

Must take knickers.
Must take knickers.
Must take knickers.

Another week suckers! Who's off for a swim!! ME! Maybe I shall do 4 extra (25m) lengths so I can come and brag here to a bunch of strangers on the Internet

That total immersion video looks good. I got told today that one leg goes up and one goes down when I do breaststroke, presumably that's why I get lower back ache when swimming.
I'll have a look for a video tomorrow and post it

Why would I even want to swim more efficiently... I'm still going to swim for an hour, however inefficiently. There was a chap who went on a bit at me & teen DS about how we could be more efficient. He meant well. I explained my injuries that make my swimming style weird. DS just wants an upper body workout so paid no attention.

Today in the pool was a techno-sprinter: he kept blasting up and down ... occasionally, when his watch told him to. Doing Fly sometimes. Pretty much ran over the other swimmers. Then a mate of his friend turned up... she was considerate but also a sporadic sprinter. Naturally they spent as much time chatting as they did sprinting.

I may sound sulky but actually the other swimmers are what keeps me entertained. And a Good thing about sprinters is they don't spend much time crowding up the lanes.

rights been there, done that. Not at work tho 😱

I'm not blessed with the ability to go bra less.. I'd trip myself up! 😂

I did forget DS change of clothes once... poor thing! Had to come home in his trunks and rash top! Wrapped up in a towel with a bemused look on his face! 😂😂

You made me laugh rights – I worry about forgetting my undies! Just looked at the total immersion YouTube link Hissy and that is intriguing. It looks like he barely moves his legs at all. The pool doesn't open early today so I had a bit of a lie-in before the craziness of getting everyone ready for school! Back to it tomorrow morning. I e-mailed SwimTag about being unable to alter the pool length and I got an e-mail back saying they had changed it manually but were onto it. I was able to change yesterday's swim without hassle.

Ah right! I've seen that before, didn't know that's what it was called.

Beautiful.

Just back from 1K swim.

Went in my cossie, forgot any form of underwear so am currently commando. I can easily get away with no bra, especially when it's warm so nips are not perky (!) but no pants...well...it's just not very ladylike...snort.

Teaches you to swim with much less effort, amazing style

Apparently helps you double your distance

What's a total immersion course?

I decided I wanted to swim 1000m in my session tonight.

So I wrote out chunks of 100 (4/4/2 and 4/4/4/2 and 4/4/4 in sharpie on my arm

Worked beatifully, rubs off when you want it. I miscounted and threw in a couple of fast laps to round it off. SwimTag says 1200m #Result

Anyone interested in a total immersion course? I'm signed up for the one in Petersfield in October, there's about half a dozen places left

Thought

Haha, hadn't taught of that!

I'll come with you baby (am also 45).
I can do front crawl but know my technique is very poor. I'd love lessons. The silver lining is that my swim is a very good workout as I'm so inefficient!

I love swimming, but can only do breast stroke and back stroke.

Would love to learn front crawl, but wonder how hard it would be to learn a completely new stroke at 45

Have enquired about swimming lessons at local pool, but feel a bit nervous about it (like going back in time and a swim coach shouting at me whilst I flounder in the unheated outdoor pool in October during the weekly school-swim... )

I swim in the sea periodically - south Devon typically and will generally chance it from late May to September. I don't wear a wetsuit. I do wear a t shirt over my costume though which impacts your stroke but gives a layer of insulation. My h wears a wetsuit and my mum will switch between t shirt and wetsuit. Get shoulders under as soon as you can, keep moving and don't push it if you start to feel cold would be my advice.

I used to swim for fitness so am very jealous. I can't justify the membership costs for the gym as I'd only use it to swim and whilst there are a couple of reasonable council pools the opening hours are such that I can't get there and get to work on time in the morning and they are shut for clubs and lessons after 6 until 9 which is just too late to go. Weekends are heaving unless I go before 8. Tis v annoying.

Thank you singing! For those of you who swim outside...we are down our caravan this week by the coast. Once it stops raining I'd love to swim in the sea but it looks so bloody cold! Is it do-able without a wetsuit? Is there a knack? Obviously I'd be safe but I more mean doing it without catching hypothermia!

Welcome Lolimax and congratulations on your amazing weight loss. I can't do breast stroke very well so stick to front crawl and backstroke. I also dislike swimming caps!

Hello can I join? I've always been a keen swimmer, but sometimes during my life the keen-ness had waned a bit. This year I've decided to loose weight and get fitter and swimming has been part of that. I swim twice a week (as well as Zumba twice, Latino fit, walk dogs and trying to run, yuck). I breaststroke for 30-45 minutes and do up to 70 lengths of a full sized pool. I'm definitely getting fitter but disappointingly my arms are still flabby and my stomach is still wobbly (although I have lost 2 and 1/2 stone so far).
I prefer to go on my own so I don't get distracted by chatting. I hate swimming caps!!

Thank you for the welcome

Yes I love swimming outdoors, not really into indoor swimming so much coz I find it stuffy. I need to get fitter though, so need to up my game and do more!

Running AND swimming CMOT (and Rights) – I'm impressed. Welcome Pesto. Very impressed too that you swim daily. An outdoor pool (since you said you don't if it it tipping it down)? The way our pool is laid out for lane swimming I couldn't swim the perimeter!

Good afternoonio! May I join please? I swim most days unless it is really tipping it down. It's very refreshing especially on days like today when it is hot. I do circuits round the perimeter aswell as laps, just to make it more interesting