Swimming for fitness (part 3). Dive in!

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Ohh la la....2nd thread filled up. Hopefully this Subject line will make it easy enough to find.

Everyone welcome.

The push and underwater kick/wiggle is used to get speed and propulsion as it’s faster than swimming

The glide that’s being talked about in strokes is the bit of technique that takes the smooth and streamlined body position and uses the propulsion and speed to slip through the water before the next stroke. You have to get it right, time the stroke too quickly and you lose the smooth speed in the glide, too slow and momentum is lost.

Look at swim smooth/total immersion, that might help show you what I mean

Ta. Was just curious.
If it's a "timing" thing, that's another way I'd spectacularly fail, tbh!

Can swim in an outdoor pool at the gym by my new job so that makes me happy. No timing clock though so need to work something else out as without a clock i just end up plodding.

2.5k open water race coming up this weekend, water is reportedly about 21/22 so think I'm going to ditch the wetsuit for it.

Theres a nice gym near me with a glorious outdoor pool! But way out of my price range.

Enjoy x

Nice mile swim tonight worked on F.C. catch and was counting strokes I’m very consistent at 21 per 25m but it feels slow hence why I think I’m gliding /stalling abit within the stroke.

Went for a quick swim with teen daughter this morning: lucky enough to have the pool to ourselves! There’s a fun session a bit later which I expect is why no children & it’s not normally open mid morning term time. Wonder if it’ll stay this quiet all summer? Will go more often if it does!

Quick 1k before last day at school pick up. Gets more challenging fitting in swims now. But I just joined different pool which is mostly one depth so if I do go with kids the youngest can stand up in 75% of the pool so I can get some Lengths in.

2.5k open water swim today, of course it's windy and throwing it down after weeks of glorious weather!

Swim went pretty well, although the organisation was fairly rubbish. Went without a wetsuit which was definitely the right decision for me. Very choppy, they changed the course to help a little but meant we had to get out and run around then get back in again for a second lap.

2nd in my age group, 10th female overall (should have been 9th but the direction to the finish mat was non existent!) Took 45 and a half minutes or so, pleased with that, wanted to do under 50 and weather wasn't helpful and sighting on the course was rubbish.

Well done tizwozliz especially in the wet n windy conditions! Great time and placing.
We’ve just abandoned a wet n wild campsite a night early as forecast continued to be dire...! Typical flipping school hols after wks of sunshine.

Sitting by a natural swimming pool.

No lanes, no black lines (urchins are spectacularly disorganised, I’ve tried, but they’re a little prickly when you try and boss em about)

Have swum into caves, around points, to and from islands, more and further and wilder than I’ve ever Swum before.

Well chuffed with the progress tbh

Have super dooper fun everyone 🌞

Where are you Hissy? Natural swimming pool sounds great - I've got swimmer's itch from the water at the weekend

Wow! Looks amazing Hissy!

Thank you for the all tips over the last few weeks. I had a bit of a break through this morning. I had a feeling that continuous crawl was now just a mental hurdle to get over so went for it. Having not done more than 6 lengths previously I decided to do 8. That was easy enough so I then went for 16. Lost count & my Garmin told me I did 18! Did a final 4 & got out.

Really pleased. Just like when I did 20 mins running going C25k. Next swim I’m going to go for it & see if I can do all 30 crawl. All this just as I’ve had the green light from the physio to start running again. Will have to keep swimming too now!

Sorry, that was a confusing post. 30 continuous front crawl is what I’m after (instead of 30 FC with breaks after every 4-6 lengths or 30 continuous lengths with the odd length of back crawl thrown in).

Boxcar, that’s exactly how you do it, do what you know you can do then see how far you can get, then push it just a little further

It IS a mental thing!

Well done on your break through

I’m in Sardinia tiz. It’s amazing! Truly off grid (until we come into town)

Well I did it! 750m continuous crawl. It’s taken 6 weeks to get here. Going to have to keep it going now.

There is a Facebook group zero to 1650 - it’s amazingly supportive and helpful, have a look and give it a whirl

The advice given most is SLOW DOWN TO GO FASTER/Further

Once you have the stamina, you can then add in a bit more pace/refine technique etc

Well done boxcar!!

I'm suddenly struggling to swim my normal 1k freestyle. Everything is an effort and when I get out I'm exhausted instead of invigorated. I'm trying to pin down why this can be. I'm tired all the time, I wake up at 6, get tea and muesli, and take it back to bed and then find myself dozing till mid morning (I'm on leave) I get up do my swim and I'm good for nothing. Any ideas what could be sapping my energy?

Hydration? Have you tried adding a salt tablet to your water or have one 1 hour before you swim?

It’ll be the heat.

Ive has a weird virus for couple of weeks flaming plus with the heat I’ve been shattered. Try something else? Bit of HITT at home? It will come back. Do some different sets in the pool rather than just same stroke 1k?

fiz

Re swimming itch

There is a sun tan lotion by Lifesystems that is designed for water use and has anti jellyfish formula- we tried it in our very duck flea bastard infested lake last year and I think it does work. It creates a barrier which the duck flea parasite cant get through

I’ve not been into this particular lake much this year, but I think it made a difference last year.

www.lifesystems.co.uk/products/sun-protection/sports-sun-cream-factor-50?sku=40320

Thanks I've been doing sets with pull buoy and some breaststroke even just to get me to 1k.
I do wonder if it's the heat and I think my tummy isn't quite right too. So I'm low on energy because I'm doubly dehydrated.
I've been refilling water bottles to take and then not cleaning them, I need to take more care.

Hi all

I went swimming for the first time in ages yesterday and remembered how much better I feel afterwards. I'm really unfit at the moment and don't have great stamina so didn't swim for long and took a few breaks between lengths. I'd like to get better but I'm not sure where to start. I mainly do breaststroke. Does anyone have any suggestions for a plan to follow - what would be a reasonable number of lengths to aim for? Or should I aim to swim for a certain length of time?

Thanks

xx

I swam about 1 hr in North Sea today... a lifeguard came out to check on me . I don't think I did anything to suggest I was in distress, but someone on shore thought it must be wrong I stayed in so long (I heard the lifeguard radioing in about "swimmer is fine member of public just concerned". The tide was pushing out, actually, so I swam parallel to get slowly closer back to shore, but hoped I wouldn't have to walk more than 1 mile back, was worse case scenario. We had rip tide lessons every single spring in school so I felt like I knew what to do.

4 Members of the open-water club came rocketing past me at one point (awed). HOW do they tolerate the salt water so well? They were swimming against current, too. I can't stand salt water in my mouth. BLECH.

Good swim working on arm pull tonight and hand entry. Slightly frustrating as the masters section of my DDs club is really looking for new members but you have to swim min of 50m butterfly (along with the other the strokes) I can’t do 5m as never been taught and not sure my back could take it. But I’d have loved to work on the other 3 strokes, I wonder how many others get put off by this. I may have a chat to them see if there are any options as I can do a mile of frontcrawl now.