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08-13-2024, 03:26 PM
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Any good swimmers on the misc
Have taken up swimming again recently due to a injury that's preventing me running.
Prior to this I could "swim" as in I was comfortable in water could thread water for 5+ minutes comfortably and do a ****y freestyle stroke for maybe 75-100 meters before being absolutely gassed.
I've since taken lessons and learned proper freestyle, face in the water and rolling on to side to breath. I'm really struggling to see progress after the initial few lessons. Sometimes I can swim 25 meters comfortably and then a day later I might struggle to make it 12.5 meters. I've been practicing for about 6 weeks now with a lesson each week and an additional 2-3 x practicing myself.
Prior to this I could "swim" as in I was comfortable in water could thread water for 5+ minutes comfortably and do a ****y freestyle stroke for maybe 75-100 meters before being absolutely gassed.
I've since taken lessons and learned proper freestyle, face in the water and rolling on to side to breath. I'm really struggling to see progress after the initial few lessons. Sometimes I can swim 25 meters comfortably and then a day later I might struggle to make it 12.5 meters. I've been practicing for about 6 weeks now with a lesson each week and an additional 2-3 x practicing myself.
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08-13-2024, 03:38 PM
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I'm a regular swimmer (I swim 2 miles 3x per week); I don't know if that makes me good or not.
You have 2 main things, technique and stamina, which are interconnected. The worse your technique is, the quicker you gas, as you are more inefficient. The commonest issue with freestyle is your legs hanging too low in the water, making your horizontal cross section 2-3x as big as it should be, increasing your resistance and making you "gas" sooner.
Concentrate on staying flatter until you can comfortably do a length. When you can comfortably do a length, you can do intervals - 1 fast length freestyle, then 1 slow length either freestyle, on your back, walking in the water or whatever. 1 fast, 1 slow, 1 fast, 1 slow etc
Just keep plugging away at it and treat it like lifting, where lengths are reps. You can play with resistance (speed, resistance gets higher the faster you go), number of reps etc
You have 2 main things, technique and stamina, which are interconnected. The worse your technique is, the quicker you gas, as you are more inefficient. The commonest issue with freestyle is your legs hanging too low in the water, making your horizontal cross section 2-3x as big as it should be, increasing your resistance and making you "gas" sooner.
Concentrate on staying flatter until you can comfortably do a length. When you can comfortably do a length, you can do intervals - 1 fast length freestyle, then 1 slow length either freestyle, on your back, walking in the water or whatever. 1 fast, 1 slow, 1 fast, 1 slow etc
Just keep plugging away at it and treat it like lifting, where lengths are reps. You can play with resistance (speed, resistance gets higher the faster you go), number of reps etc
Screw nature; my body will do what I DAMN WELL tell it to do!
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08-13-2024, 03:45 PM
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Mirin! Id love to build up to doing a 70.3 Ironman.
I'm a regular swimmer (I swim 2 miles 3x per week); I don't know if that makes me good or not.
You have 2 main things, technique and stamina, which are interconnected. The worse your technique is, the quicker you gas, as you are more inefficient. The commonest issue with freestyle is your legs hanging too low in the water, making your horizontal cross section 2-3x as big as it should be, increasing your resistance and making you "gas" sooner.
Concentrate on staying flatter until you can comfortably do a length. When you can comfortably do a length, you can do intervals - 1 fast length freestyle, then 1 slow length either freestyle, on your back, walking in the water or whatever. 1 fast, 1 slow, 1 fast, 1 slow etc
Just keep plugging away at it and treat it like lifting, where lengths are reps. You can play with resistance (speed, resistance gets higher the faster you go), number of reps etc
You have 2 main things, technique and stamina, which are interconnected. The worse your technique is, the quicker you gas, as you are more inefficient. The commonest issue with freestyle is your legs hanging too low in the water, making your horizontal cross section 2-3x as big as it should be, increasing your resistance and making you "gas" sooner.
Concentrate on staying flatter until you can comfortably do a length. When you can comfortably do a length, you can do intervals - 1 fast length freestyle, then 1 slow length either freestyle, on your back, walking in the water or whatever. 1 fast, 1 slow, 1 fast, 1 slow etc
Just keep plugging away at it and treat it like lifting, where lengths are reps. You can play with resistance (speed, resistance gets higher the faster you go), number of reps etc
I feel my biggest issue is definitely technique, staying horizontal and exhaling in the water as I find my urgency to breath gets extreme half way through a lap which shows I'm obviously not blowing off enough CO2.
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08-13-2024, 03:49 PM
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I have fathered 2 boys. Is that what you are asking OP?
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08-13-2024, 03:52 PM
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Originally Posted By Khumatmibro⏩
I did a 70.3 with all breast stroke because my freestyle isnt there yet
Mirin! Id love to build up to doing a 70.3 Ironman.
I feel my biggest issue is definitely technique, staying horizontal and exhaling in the water as I find my urgency to breath gets extreme half way through a lap which shows I'm obviously not blowing off enough CO2.
I feel my biggest issue is definitely technique, staying horizontal and exhaling in the water as I find my urgency to breath gets extreme half way through a lap which shows I'm obviously not blowing off enough CO2.
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08-13-2024, 03:57 PM
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Originally Posted By Khumatmibro⏩
I've done sprint and supersprint triathlons, but never the long distance stuff. I find the running too harsh at 240lbs. When I did a half marathon I cut down to under 200lbs for it.
Mirin! Id love to build up to doing a 70.3 Ironman.
I feel my biggest issue is definitely technique, staying horizontal and exhaling in the water as I find my urgency to breath gets extreme half way through a lap which shows I'm obviously not blowing off enough CO2.
I feel my biggest issue is definitely technique, staying horizontal and exhaling in the water as I find my urgency to breath gets extreme half way through a lap which shows I'm obviously not blowing off enough CO2.
Swimming, for me, is the one form of cardio that I can do regularly and long term. It just suits me psychologically.
Our house has a 20m indoor pool. I swim 3x per week (the 3 days that I don't lift), my wife swims 6-7x days a week and our 3 year old swims most days (she could swim about the same time as she could walk).
Just keep working on your technique and don't be afraid to breathe more often. With freestyle, you are technically supposed to be breathing every 3 strokes, but whilst you are using more oxygen, due to being inefficient, breathe every 2 strokes. Nobody is giving you marks for it; if you need to breathe more often, then breathe more often.
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08-13-2024, 04:12 PM
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I do 25 to 40 minutes non stop 3 Times a week.
I don’t measure distance/laps, just time.
I find it relaxing! I started wearing earplugs and it’s helped a lot
I don’t measure distance/laps, just time.
I find it relaxing! I started wearing earplugs and it’s helped a lot
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