Fitness Log suggestion

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Former Member — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:50:40 GMT

Never heard of deep water running, but it makes sense. It's running in deep water with or without a special flotation belt. Your feet don't touch the bottom. Very effective for maintaining running-specific fitness for injured runners/multisport athletes.

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Former Member — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:43:17 GMT

Deep water running! I wouldn't want to measure that as a function of time vs. distance (as it recently took me almost 20 minutes to "run" a 500), but by time would be great!

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Elaine Krugman — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:55:50 GMT

Very important (perhaps one of the most) suggestion would be number of hours sleep for the day Actual sleep or hours in bed trying ( :bitching: )to :bed:? ;) But, that's a subject for an entirely different thread...

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__steve__ — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:44:43 GMT

Very important (perhaps one of the most) suggestion would be number of hours sleep for the day

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Celestial — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:37:39 GMT

Excellent point. BTW: How do I access the fitness logs to set an achievable goal?? Have not been successful finding any link to get there. jg I'm not sure they have anything like that, but this is what I did: I took what I could (at that time) easily do in a practice, and multiplied it by the approximate days I thought I would be swimming that year (you know, 3 days a week for 50 weeks or whatever) - and then I added a few yards. Then I looked at how the GTD calculator converted the yards to miles and rounded it further. You can also do reverse math, like I know that x #yards + x #miles. If I swim 3 days a week, how far do I have to go for each workout? Ewww, that's too much, lets see what happens if I do four days a week? Etc. You can change your goal throughout the year, you know. :D

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orca1946 — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:02:43 GMT

Never heard of deep water running, but it makes sense.

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bassboneman — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:28:37 GMT

Maybe things like crunches, pullups, pushups?

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vweichert — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:01:17 GMT

Another vote for the elliptical...

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Former Member — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:36:55 GMT

If anyone has suggestions for additional activities to be included in the FLOG list, please post those here, too. I just received an email from someone who requested that rowing be added to the list.

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smontanaro — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:18:32 GMT

I know this isn't an activity (so not as simple to implement I imagine), but ... One thing I remembered after my initial post was the ability to display a linear view with the option to display comments in-line. I currently only use the FLOG to record my yardage/mileage. If I was able to see a historical view of my workouts (even just for the past 30 days or so) which included comments, I would probably record some workout details. I know I can create blog posts with my workout, but I have a) no interest in sharing my lame workouts with other people, and b) I don't think that would allow me to display a bunch of posts in one fell swoop for review. Something like: date .. yardage details (if any) .. comments (if any) date .. yardage details (if any) .. comments (if any) ... skipping those days with no data. Thx, Skip

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aztimm — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:16:41 GMT

elliptical machine miles Are awards given for anything other than swimming? Although I do other activities, I don't bother putting anything in my FLOG outside of swimming.

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fatboy — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 11:59:37 GMT

I would like to see both elliptical and rowing machine added

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tjrpatt — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 11:55:59 GMT

If anyone has suggestions for additional activities to be included in the FLOG list, please post those here, too. I just received an email from someone who requested that rowing be added to the list. elliptical machine miles

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Former Member — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 08:16:15 GMT

It would be great to be able to set monthly goals in addition to our annual goal.

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Former Member — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 07:57:48 GMT

Here is an illustrated tutorial that explains how to set up your Forums account, create your MyUSMS page, set up a FLOG, and enter the Go The Distance event. Tutorial: Setting Up Your Forums Account

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Sojerz — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 05:39:28 GMT

Jean S, Once you enter the 2012 go distance event, you'll be able to access the calendar to update your progress. Above the canendar there are two boxes and in the second box there is a line: My Go The Distance 2012 goal: Progress towards goal: Click on the goal link and it will prompt you to set your goal in miles. It wasn't avaiable until 1/1/2012, so even if you entered earlier I don't think you could set a goal before new year's day. You can adjust it periodically an when you enter progress in the calendar, it will atuto update your progress.

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Jean S — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 01:42:16 GMT

Excellent point. BTW: How do I access the fitness logs to set an achievable goal?? Have not been successful finding any link to get there. jg

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orca1946 — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 01:40:16 GMT

Can we add sit ups/crunches also?

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jswim — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 01:34:08 GMT

elliptical machine miles A second that, and perhaps hiking?

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mjtyson — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 05:45:48 GMT

The flog is a great tool and I wouldn't want it to ever go away, but if USMS is taking suggestions, here's mine -calculator so you can determine yardage between two dates -search function -an option to have a different avatar showing you swam open water so it is easier to see when cruising through the months I guess that's it. Oh! The ability to print. Some of these options may already be available. I just haven't figured out how to do it yet.