What makes you (or makes you want) to stop your swim workout, aside from being tired or feeling hurt?
- Sharing Lanes: Sometimes when I go to share a lane with someone, I'll get in, they'll do another lap, and get out. I feel guilty. I have on a couple occasions gotten out when people want to split lanes with me, especially if they're annoying and touch me/swim into me.
- Team Practices: I don't know why, but if I'm not part of the team practice that's in the pool, I don't want to be there. Maybe I just feel lazy next to them.
- Thinking about food: Food (particularly donuts for some reason) makes me feel sick while swimming. I've thrown up in my mouth on several occasions due to thinking about food while swimming. I love food, I love thinking about food, but not while swimming.
- Little kid swim lessons: The last time i swam next to this I got smacked in the face with an oar to an inflatable boat.
- The creepy middle aged guy that hangs out at the end of my lane to stretch when there are 7 open lanes. Wearing briefs, giant goggles, and covered in hair. Doing odd exercises like thrusting the ground or stretching hs hip flexors widely on the diving blocks. :bolt:
- Broken pace clocks
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This post is so perfect for me after the week I had working out!!!
First of all, I am newly back in the pool and thanks to an irratic work schedule and a young child, I am forced to work out at a gym within the confines of daycare hours, so that is really my only hindrance.... However, some notable mentions:
1) Water walkers! I get it, it is good exercise, but please, you are only using up 2 square feet of space. Please group yourselves into one lane only. It is sad to see all the swimmers in one lane and water walkers taking up the other two! And if you ask to share with them, well, I have never had another swimmer be that rude!
2) The eternal lane pausers/loungers. Just last week I had a guy get into my lane (it's fine, I can share). However, he swam one lap and then proceeded to just stand in the shallow end of my lane. I swam on and finally he decided to move to the deeper end. And then he just stood there! Blocking my wall! I waited and waited and finally something clued him in that the tatted up lady whose swim cap just ripped, the one with dang near smoke coming out of her nostrils, would like you, sir, to get out of the lane unless you want plan on actually swimming.
3) Cutesy couples frolicking in the pool also get me...
I should probably get out of the gym here pretty soon....
This post is so perfect for me after the week I had working out!!!
First of all, I am newly back in the pool and thanks to an irratic work schedule and a young child, I am forced to work out at a gym within the confines of daycare hours, so that is really my only hindrance.... However, some notable mentions:
1) Water walkers! I get it, it is good exercise, but please, you are only using up 2 square feet of space. Please group yourselves into one lane only. It is sad to see all the swimmers in one lane and water walkers taking up the other two! And if you ask to share with them, well, I have never had another swimmer be that rude!
2) The eternal lane pausers/loungers. Just last week I had a guy get into my lane (it's fine, I can share). However, he swam one lap and then proceeded to just stand in the shallow end of my lane. I swam on and finally he decided to move to the deeper end. And then he just stood there! Blocking my wall! I waited and waited and finally something clued him in that the tatted up lady whose swim cap just ripped, the one with dang near smoke coming out of her nostrils, would like you, sir, to get out of the lane unless you want plan on actually swimming.
3) Cutesy couples frolicking in the pool also get me...
I should probably get out of the gym here pretty soon....
