Swimming for fitness (part 2). Jump in!

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We've filled up the first Swimming for fitness thread, so here is the new one.

Everyone welcome.

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Totally gonna get this

Erm... Where are the eyes gonna end up? I'm too naturally buoyant to suit that suit rights

Just as well they don't have a bulging eyed frog version

I'm not a natural anything so I'd be thrilled to kick anyone's arse tbh :D

LOL...turns out it's discontinued anyway. Ya boo.

You are naturally funny and helpful Hissy, nice traits.

Aw... thanks rights 😊😍

Thanks for the tips for the hands Hissy. I still can't work out what I'm doing wrong. I think ultimately it's a confidence thing and I just need to keep having a crack at it and one day it will work and become second nature. I've spectacularly wiped out a few squad mates in the past which may be part of the problem

See this :

This one looks good too!

Hissy, those 2 videos are great. They have explained the arm problem really well. Thanks so much. Going to the pool tomorrow determined to nail it! Good job it's cold and raining here so it won't be too busy.

Yeah...I watched them too.
Thanks hissy.
I think I would only have confidence to practice in my own private pool!

So I might be entering a Splash and Dash event - swim 750m then run 5k

Interesting videos, thanks Hissy. Made me quite frightened to try though!

rights I'd do a dash of 750m then a splash of 5k
no i wouldn't, 5k still way off my distance!

The ONLY thing to remember is to BLOW OUT THROUGH YOUR NOSE AS YOU GO ROUND/OVER

Forget to this and you will know why I have said for you to do it....

you could try a forward roll in the pool? that's a good start

On hols at mo but lovely DH took the kids to soft play hell for an hour yesterday so I could get a lovely quiet 40mins lane swim session in. Was fab all lanes with only 1-2people in each lane now he's about to drop me 3miles from the campsite so I can run back he had his "fix" trail running in the rain 8m yesterday.

Where are you Ski?

We've been in Cornwall avocado.

Had a fab swim this afternoon back at home pool I was really relaxed & focused on letting the water "hold" my head and did mostly FC for 35mins can't believe I've come so far from struggling to do one length of FC to feeling SO much more confident in the water. It helped I had a lane to myself for most of it as it was nearly closing time

ha! I'm not a natural at anything athletic. It's all been a struggle.
My swimming seems better than my running, but that could be due to 20+ yrs of effort vs. just 5 or so for running.

If you picked 100 women off the street & gave them enough fitness training, 85 of them would easily beat me at anything & everything (most of the other 15 would be missing a leg or working spinal cord & could still almost beat me :)). But most folk make no effort, just throw their fitness potential away. It's bewildering.

Splash and dash entered. It's tomorrow.
I don't know whether to wear my wet suit or just the trisuit.

Pros: wetsuit gives me buoyancy
Cons: transition will be very long ie I have never done anything like this before, the wet suit is too short so the ankles are around my calves.

Water is 19C.

When I did my first open water race my legs were really wobbly when I finished and I felt quite dizzy. I'm gonna fall flat on my face, aren't I?!

Oh, had a funny swim on Friday.

Usually if there are only three in a lane we agree to go up and down rather than round and round. I was the third person in, with one already swimming by the rope and the other by the wall, so I slipped in the middle.

After a length though, the chap started going round and round. I asked whether he wanted to go up and down and he said not with three as he didn't want to take me out when he did butterfly. Yikes.

He was swimming one length really splashy and fast and strong and then resting for ages I myself look like a mermaid of course

Good luck tomorrow rights are you allowed to not wear a wetsuit? Think most say it's compulsory under 24c? Either way hope you enjoy it you'll be doing a triathlon next

This lake says wetsuit compulsory up to 16C.

Wow hardcore lake!! Well I'd go for no wetsuit I think, but it takes me a longtime to get out of it.

At 19, I'd be happy in my trisuit, but I've been swimming in no wetsuit, or just my thin neoprene top a lot.

Last Sunday swim at our lake for the year yesterday due to events on there its never as busy as the Tuesday night session which is a bit frantic. I'm really pleased that this year I have learnt to deal with people swimming into me, having my goggles kicked off, swimming with people tight around me - all of which I was really nervous about.

And I'm going ocean swimming in September! In San Diego at the invitation of one of my customers who I met in Denver last week, and now theres a plan that a group of us (some of my colleagues who OWS, and some customers from other places) will be visiting SD tri club while at a conference. Apparently there are rays and dolphins sometimes. How excited am I!

Reporting in. Masters classed are off for August, so it's us under our own power. Garmin Swim watch said I did about 6k last week, so we're keeping up :)

I'm focussing on getting my distance back to be honest, I'll need it for any OWS i need to do next year.

So I am back on the 0-1650 (ruthkazez.com/SwimWorkouts/ZeroTo1mile.html) My sets are basically Week 1 as a warm up, week 2 as the main set, so I'm getting 1600m done. Then practice some breaststroke, and kicking. although I had to stop the breaststroke after 100m or so, and went back to a yummy front crawl, totally in the zone. Heavenly!

think I will try Week 1 as the warm up and then week 3 as the main set - which will kill me. Of this I have no doubt

ruthkazez.com/SwimWorkouts/ZeroTo1mile.html

Clicky link

rights your splashy man had me laughing :D Sounds like you could have been in any pool I've ever been in, there is always one :D

We had to contend with an impromptu swimming training session last week, it was a right pain, I had a woman alternating lengths FC and breaststroke, but to be fair to her, she did always let me past at the wall, there was someone else in there, stood around a LOT then did a couple of reasonable FC lengths.

At one point there were the three of us, her with her breaststroke, him with his slow FC, me with mine and then some bloke got in, zoomed up behind me, tumble turned on the wall and then zoomed down the lane. It was a medium lane, the 2 fasts weren't both overly busy There is ALWAYS one..

I moved into a fast lane where the boyf was and we carried on in peace.

We have now moved over to our Swimming Club pool, as the evenings are usually given over to clubs, nobody knows the sessions are even happening, so the lanes are empty and it's perfection! the pool itself only opened in spring, so everything is brand new and lovely, the water is clean and clear.