anybody swim laps?- Page 2

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 3:42pm

whoa, i'm gonna need a minute after that comment. i know, i know, i've got a dirty mind, but c'mon, the pope read that and pitched a tent.

[kate2]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 3:49pm

If you type up a workout, you can wet the paper and stick it to a kickboard and keep it at the end of your lane. There are different drills you can do to mix up the workout. Some of my favorites are: instead of swimming regular freestyle all the time, drag your fingertips while swimming for a couple laps, then another one to make sure you are finishing your stroke is called "pop out" where you do a regular freestyle stroke, but end the stroke by your hips and push the water up behind you. These next two are really good too: swim almost completely on your side and kick 3 times, then take a stroke and switch sides (do that for a few laps too) after that you can do the same thing but kick 6 times before taking a stroke.

I hope that helped someone!

[caitiesus1522]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 6:09pm

What? Papa and I have something in common? *faints*

Usually I swim ALL the time (10 years on swim team), but thanks to eye issues, this summer is the second summer in a row that I am not allowed to swim...and it is my version of hell. I haven't swam since December.

My goal used to be 2 miles three times a week, but I am so out of shape that all I can go is about 600 yards, a few times a week...and just a few years ago I was a distance swimmer! I am not a fan of setting a time goal either, probablybecause I am so used to doing sets, that is what I usually do. Most pools that have a swim team using it at some point have a very large second clock if you want to time sets. Depending on your goal, sometimes doing different lengths works (if you switch between sprinting and a distance pace.

A good beginning I used to do was

1 200
2 100s
4 50s
8 25s.

And, if you like doing different strokes, this isa great way to do it!

And now I am going to go wallow about notbeing able to swim anymore...

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 6:16pm

go ahead and wallow, catie.

when i think back to going 15-20,000yds a day for weeks at a time and now just laugh when i think of going even 1500yds a day...i weep. then i have another beer. then i weep some more. then i put on another nicotine patch. then more weeping.

[lady godiva]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 6:18pm

I've been doing a mile and a half a day for two weeks in between sessions at work (I'm a swim instructor for 2 - adult). Love it!

[vmlinnie]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 6:21pm

I used to swim when I was younger (like 7 to 11 years old, which isn't as long ago as it seems).

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 6:26pm

I really miss having the nice, outdoor Olympic size pool. I don't miss the fact that it wasn't heated.

The pool at the gym is ok, but considering it's in the basement of the building, it's difficult to go when the weather is so beautiful. However... there's hardly anyone there, so no lap sharing.

[Guido Contini]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 6:30pm

am i the only person here who is hydrophobic or is it somewhat typical?

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 6:43pm

heh, catie, i just dug back into my files and retrieved an ugly workout that i just cannnot believe i was ever able to do it...i feel like puking just loooking at it again and remembering looking up at the chalkboard as i walked into the pool and seeing it. 1987. god to be young dumb and full of...chlorine again. do not try this at home folks.

800 im warm up

3 x 100 free @ 1:15
3 x 100 free @ 1:10
3 x 100 free @ 1:05
3 x 100 free @ 1:00

6 x 150 free kick @ 2:15

5 x 400 im @ 4:45

5 x 50 free @ :40
5 x 50 free @ :40
5 x 50 free @ :35
5 x 50 free @ :30

5 x 200 free pull @ 2:30

3 x 200 back @ 2:20
3 x 200 back @ 2:15
3 x 200 back @ 2:10

8 x 25 fly @ :20 (no breath)
8 x 25 back @ :20 (dolphin kick underwater)
8 x 25 breast @ :20 (underwater)
8 x 25 free @ :15 (no breath)

1000 free cool down

[caitiesus1522]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 7:31pm

That looks FUN! (note the sarcasm). Nothing is worse than out 12 days of Christmas workout (on Christmas Eve day every year) though. Let me try to remember as much is I can

1 2000 free
2 x 500 free at 6:00
3 x 400 IM at 6:00
4 x 200 free at 2:30
6 x 100 anything but free at 1;40
7 x 100 free at 1:20
8 x 50 pull at :50
9 x 50 kick at :45
10 x 50 free at :40
11 x 50 free at :35
12 x 25 free at :15

With one minute break between each set

It may not look as bad as yours, but this was all swimmers (distance and sprint) of all strokes. And I was more ambitious than mytimes were, so I was in the back of the fastest lane of swimmers, so I got no break this entire practice other than your one alloted skip (at 7 or higher).

I actually found my workout journalI kept and later that day I did

150 pushups
1000 crunches
100 lunges
and ran 2 miles

Wow...I used to be INSANE. But what makes me more insane is that I miss those days so much.

And I did wallow for a little while earlier.

So papa swam back when all the guys wore Speedos...

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 7:39pm

You guys tired me out...

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 7:51pm

yeah, except when we were wearing drag suits. no, not those kind ya pervs!

christ i just looked for a pic and they don't even make the kind we used to use anymore. the drag suits, i mean. now they're like baggy shorts, but the ones we used were freakin' oversuits with big pockets of mesh, god i hated those!

wallowing's ok.

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 7:56pm

I wish... I have ZERO drive...

the best I can do is run every now and then

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 8:00pm

A lap, to me, is down and back. Whether the pool is a 25M, or 100M, it's still down and back.

And I just read the workout sheet, Papa. I did puke a little. There's no way I could do that now.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 8:09pm

heck, i barely made it way back then. in the heat of posting that i didn't stop to realize just how f***ing old i actualy am. sh*t.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 10:07pm

um i just swim...... every day..... and blow bubbles and kick our feet and play motorboat. oh wait sorry this isnt a swim lesson is it?? i have been in the pool nonstop latley teaching private swim lessons. lots of fun and a good workout but tires me out, after teaching 4-6 hrs a day in the pool i dont even wanna think bout swimming laps.... but i do... sometimes. =)

[cturtle]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 12:54am

DD, i'm with you. looking at some of these posts just totally exhausts me! i'm definitely taking tomorrow off

Updated On: 6/29/06 at 12:54 AM

[smiles]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 7:59am

I am soo happy that there's a swimming thread. I was one swim team for 10 years and now I'm swimming for a University team...just started last year. I love swimming. What's everyone's favorite stroke? Mines Backstroke, I used to swim breaststroke all the time but my knee blew out a few years ago because of it so now I can't do it anymore.

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 12:09pm

I pretty much only swim freestyle. Though my favorite stroke would be butterfly, even though I never really mastered it.

[Renthead#1]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 12:20pm

Im on a swimteam. I absolutely hate my coach though he is the meanist and most strickt guy I have ever met in my life.

[cturtle]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 3:35pm

regarding the crawl stroke (freestyle) ...

i'm used to bending my arm at the elbow and pulling my hand underneath my torso in an "S" pattern. i must have read somewhere years ago that this is good technique. yesterday i tried keeping my arm more stretched out and letting my hand go deeper in the water, more like a paddle. i seemed to get more propulsion this way. any thoughts on this?

i started swimming laps "late" in life and have never had a coach or anyhthing ... just what i've read in books and stuff.

Updated On: 6/29/06 at 03:35 PM

[cturtle]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 4:14pm

i've always enjoyed BREAST stroke. it's more relaxing to me. although recently i'm really getting into BACK stroke. i don't know if i'm doing it correctly, but i find it VERY relaxing and makes my back feel good

and can't even begin to do FLY ... maybe one day ...

Updated On: 6/29/06 at 04:14 PM

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 4:21pm

like you, ct, I am 'self taught' and have swim for the fun of it. I have no idea if my technique is any good.

[caitiesus1522]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 4:22pm

hah my eventson swim team were known to by many as the "suicide events"

I was all distance freestyle and butterfly. My usual swim meet went

Medley relay 50 fly
200 free 8 eventns later
100 fly
500 free
free relay (the only sprinting I ever did)

I can't do backstroketosave my life.

And 50 laps in a row is nothing...I would have practices where I had to do a 2000 free style, no breaks, in 30 minutes. Then I got a 3 minute break and did another one.
Updated On: 6/29/06 at 04:22 PM

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 5:27pm

c'mon, cate that's only 1:30 per 100...cake. or it used to be once upon a time...lol.

i swam 100 back and 200 im and a little 100 breaststroke in high school plus back in the medley relay. i also swam 200 back and 400 im in what we used to call aau's. i think it's uss now.

Updated On: 6/29/06 at 05:27 PM