Was wondering about the following from those who regularly workout:
-For Breathing while swimming freestyle --- should you just turn your head to breathe or fully rotate your chest/thorax to take the breath?
- Also -- what kind of nutrition do you all do before workouts? I find if I try to eat something too soon (even to just stave off hunger in the am), I get a bit of an upset stomach when I start to swim. If I eat nothing then I get hunger pangs about 3/4 way through the workout.
- I've been swimming for about 20 months (after doing no exercise for about 30 years!). I usually go for a workout 3-4 times/wk. What would you recommend as a good length of time to swim on those occasions? 30min?-45min.-1 hr. ? More?
Thanks much.
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Hey - thanks for the input. Where I live it's starting to get pretty cold, so I'll have to wait till next summer for the open-water stuff.
As for nutrition - yes - it can make you pretty hungry when you swim regularly. If I go swimming first thing in the morning then I just drink a cup of coffee with sugar/splenda in it. Usually I just try to stick to protein bars and fresh fruit afterwards. I lost about 55 pounds since I started and I don't want to get anything back.
Besides - I'm 58 and I know it'd be pretty damn hard to re-lose the weight.
All the best.
AJD
Hey - thanks for the input. Where I live it's starting to get pretty cold, so I'll have to wait till next summer for the open-water stuff.
As for nutrition - yes - it can make you pretty hungry when you swim regularly. If I go swimming first thing in the morning then I just drink a cup of coffee with sugar/splenda in it. Usually I just try to stick to protein bars and fresh fruit afterwards. I lost about 55 pounds since I started and I don't want to get anything back.
Besides - I'm 58 and I know it'd be pretty damn hard to re-lose the weight.
All the best.
AJD
