I swim lots and lots of long distance and often find myself drifting off in thought while staring at the little tiles on the bottom of the pool. Doing sets of 200s or 300s tends not to be a problem...it's the 500 and 1000 yds that I loose concentration. When I start concentrating on technique is when I'm most likely to forget what lap I was on! Is there a gizmo out there to help me out? I envision something I can hang on the wall that would advance with my flipturn. Does anyone have any tricks to help them out with the counting of laps? Thanks!
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I too have this problem - again on the longer swims of 1000's...
I am sure they could invent something on the lines of the goggle timer (the device that displays times inside the goggle) where there are pressure pads at each end of the lane - every time you turn you hit the pad which sends a signal to the device to show you in the goggle what lap you were on or could be set to display remaining laps.
Perhaps in the future communication to the swimmer could be through the goggle - workouts could be sent to the goggle lense. messages to the swimmer could be sent to them from coach on pool side whilst the swimmer is mid-set - e.g. " **Stretch out Arm**
This would allow full concentration on the important things in swimming - good technique and the task in hand.
Like you I spend much of my time thinking about how many laps have I done - or trying to calculate things in my mind - and then loose it (technique).
I have a bad memory too! And spend ages looking at a board trying to remember complex sets.
just an idea....
I too have this problem - again on the longer swims of 1000's...
I am sure they could invent something on the lines of the goggle timer (the device that displays times inside the goggle) where there are pressure pads at each end of the lane - every time you turn you hit the pad which sends a signal to the device to show you in the goggle what lap you were on or could be set to display remaining laps.
Perhaps in the future communication to the swimmer could be through the goggle - workouts could be sent to the goggle lense. messages to the swimmer could be sent to them from coach on pool side whilst the swimmer is mid-set - e.g. " **Stretch out Arm**
This would allow full concentration on the important things in swimming - good technique and the task in hand.
Like you I spend much of my time thinking about how many laps have I done - or trying to calculate things in my mind - and then loose it (technique).
I have a bad memory too! And spend ages looking at a board trying to remember complex sets.
just an idea....
