This is awful. I really want to be able to swim freestyle - I can do the *** stroke no problem. I'm taking a workshop and my instructor tells me "your freestyle stroke is very strong" but I'm so WEAK! I'm swimming in a 25 yard pool and I can't make it much more than halfway across the $#$@! pool without having to break into the *** stroke, and I feel like I am just dying.
I'm not in HORRIBLE shape, but not great shape (the current shape is round but my lifestyle changes will eliminate that in time)...I do martial arts, circuit training, can walk 2 miles without a problem.
What can I do to work up to freestyle without killing myself? I don't want to shorten my swims by trying to do freestyle and then dying and having to settle for less time in the water/moving around/burning it off.
Help!
Hi all -
I wanted to look back at this thread from 2 months ago. This week, something amazing happened to my freestyle. I had a drill to do 100 yards of it. OMG. I decied to alternate the 25s with fs and *** stroke but then found that no, I think I had that...I am very happy to say that I can do a 50 of freestyle now without feeling like I am going to die! 2 months ago I could barely get across the 25 yards, so this is good. I think my weight loss is freeing up 'space' in my chest cavity so I can breathe better too (down almost 23 lbs so far). I'm keeping up the swimming and feeling so much better!!!!!!!!! I've learned to pace myself so I don't wear out and someone in my swim class was commenting about how smooth my freestyle is and it looks effortless. I'm learning the butterfly now - that doesn't :cheerleader:' exhaust me as much as freestyle in an 'air deprived' way; but it sure burns my arms (a good thing!)
Hi all -
I wanted to look back at this thread from 2 months ago. This week, something amazing happened to my freestyle. I had a drill to do 100 yards of it. OMG. I decied to alternate the 25s with fs and *** stroke but then found that no, I think I had that...I am very happy to say that I can do a 50 of freestyle now without feeling like I am going to die! 2 months ago I could barely get across the 25 yards, so this is good. I think my weight loss is freeing up 'space' in my chest cavity so I can breathe better too (down almost 23 lbs so far). I'm keeping up the swimming and feeling so much better!!!!!!!!! I've learned to pace myself so I don't wear out and someone in my swim class was commenting about how smooth my freestyle is and it looks effortless. I'm learning the butterfly now - that doesn't :cheerleader:' exhaust me as much as freestyle in an 'air deprived' way; but it sure burns my arms (a good thing!)
