Increasing my weekly yardage seems to have increased my hunger. How can I determine the calories really expended during swims of various lengths or intensities?
And when the office hits the all-you-can-eat lunch buffet, how many laps equate to that second or third serving? (Not giving up the food can justify extra time in the pool!)
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At 46, there is no great gap between my time in freestyle and breastroke from the times I seen on the pace clock. When I was younger my best time in freestyle was about 11 second faster in a 100 yard than my breastroke. Most of my life, I have been a poor backstroker, trouble with the wall for instance. This doesn't mean I should not workout a little on it, and I think as a teenger my backstroke would have been better if the coaches didn't have me workout with the other three strokes and almost very little yardage in backstroke. My fly isn't as good as my youth and I have always had a one beat kick. Granted a two beat kick is prefered but should I stop swimming it because I can't swim under 40 seconds like I did when I was 13 years old. In fact, since I swim the breastroke events at masters meets, I usually workout harder on breastroke than freestyle and even sometimes have done faster times in it than freestyle in workouts as an adult. I think that beginning master swimmers should workout on the other three strokes as well as freestyle and as some people here stated, they swim breastroke more correctly than freestyle when they began swimming because some people are able to pick up more on difference strokes better than others.
At 46, there is no great gap between my time in freestyle and breastroke from the times I seen on the pace clock. When I was younger my best time in freestyle was about 11 second faster in a 100 yard than my breastroke. Most of my life, I have been a poor backstroker, trouble with the wall for instance. This doesn't mean I should not workout a little on it, and I think as a teenger my backstroke would have been better if the coaches didn't have me workout with the other three strokes and almost very little yardage in backstroke. My fly isn't as good as my youth and I have always had a one beat kick. Granted a two beat kick is prefered but should I stop swimming it because I can't swim under 40 seconds like I did when I was 13 years old. In fact, since I swim the breastroke events at masters meets, I usually workout harder on breastroke than freestyle and even sometimes have done faster times in it than freestyle in workouts as an adult. I think that beginning master swimmers should workout on the other three strokes as well as freestyle and as some people here stated, they swim breastroke more correctly than freestyle when they began swimming because some people are able to pick up more on difference strokes better than others.
