So do other people feel diappointed with their times as adult versus as an 18 year old or 20 year old. I understand that I was out of swimming for almost 26 years. And I didn't practice that much during the first 2 years because I was badly out of shape and had to changes jobs and for about 9 months my work didn't workout that much with swimming, only swimming a couple of days at week. I guest we are not that young and many of us who take a very long break from swimming and are middle age are going to be slower. This is workout times according to a pace clock.
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I started swimming again because I'm overweight. I'm still overweight but have lost 20 pounds. The freestyle and breastroke and backstroke range from 3 to 5 seconds slower in 50 yards. The butterfly 15 seconds to 20 seconds slower. But I don't do that much butterfly today to avoid injury. As a kid I was made a fair butterfly from all those meets and butterfly I did in workouts. If I started back in my 30's there probably wouldn't be as much deteroration. That's life.
I started swimming again because I'm overweight. I'm still overweight but have lost 20 pounds. The freestyle and breastroke and backstroke range from 3 to 5 seconds slower in 50 yards. The butterfly 15 seconds to 20 seconds slower. But I don't do that much butterfly today to avoid injury. As a kid I was made a fair butterfly from all those meets and butterfly I did in workouts. If I started back in my 30's there probably wouldn't be as much deteroration. That's life.
