I need to speed up building up my cardio, and I need to decide how to best go by doing it.
Don't really want to drastically increase my swimming, since I alerady do 2400-3000 Y or M a day (depending on waht pool we end up in SCY or LCM), and about couple times a week or so twice a day. This is all my shoulders and upper body are willing to handle without getting strained to a point where it starts feeling like a serious muscle irritation ratherthan just DOMS. Still need time to build up the strength there. I'm relatively pleased with how my strength is comingalong. My cardio really frustrates me. :rolleyes:
I'm a klutz when it comes to running and don't really want to add strain to the joints etc. that running will do. Wanna save my legs for swimming. Really don't want to do stuff that will increase risk of injury that will take me away from swimming training.
Now that my friend filled my head with the idea that I might have a chance to qualify for FINA master's games in Italy, which I was planning to go to and just watch my friend swim. I'm not really sure how realistic that idea is. Maybe 50/50. I dunno.
I'm kind of unsure as to what would be a good choice to give my cardio more of a push, something I can do as a second workout of the day. Do I get back in the pool in the afternoons, and do some intense kicking sets with longer fins (this actually sounds like something I'd be pretty eager to do)? Something dryland?
Well, this is about as far as I had thought this through (not a lot just yet). So many options - I'm not sure which way to turn. Any input, ideas, suggestions you guys might have that can help me think this through would be welcome.
Or... maybe I just more patience. I'm not sure if I'm pushing it too hard or not hard enough. It must be one of "those" days today.
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Originally posted by cinc310
Well, doing butterfly after tht rolling skating that much would make you tried.
well... Kind of true.
I've been doing double workouts about 2-3 times a week for last few weeks... This morning, I was stiull in the cold-pool-shock, so I showed up for practice, but didn't swim.
Friday morning, there was frost on the ground, and the pool was very cold! I'm guessing around 70-72. Alone, that's okay, but a 72F pool, in a 30 degree weather... well... I think I may have done some 2000 or 2500, never even warmed up. It was paiful to swim through muscle spasams. Especially when abs spazz out around your stomach and make you nauseated.
I was freezing cold all day, and that's after a long hot shower and a 2 hour nap wrapped in a down comforter, with one cat on either side of me. It was ugly!
I was swimming, and thinking, is this how hypothermia feels, jsut before you pass out??? It felt like I couldn't move.
As it turns out, the 2 days over christmas, someone turned off the heater switch on the pools. UGH!
last 2 mornings, knowing the pools haven't fully heated up yet, I just couldn't bring myself to get in... with the frost out on the ground. In the afternoons, it was fine, even with the colder pool. Freestyle clinic yesterday afternoon, butterfly today.
It's kind of odd, I swam in the ocean when it was 68-73.. and it wasn't nearly that bad. I think cold water combined with freezing temperature outside made it bad.
Plus, my massage therp. tells me that my right delt is overworked, and staring to get inflamed... so that gave me another excuse to take it easy.
Soo... then I figured... my legs aren't hurting (yet)... so, I went rollerblading. You'd know the area, down on Balboa peninsula in Newport Beach, there is about 3 miles of sidewalk along the beach. So I went up and down twice... probably around 12 miles, maybe a tad more. It was around 65 or 70 at the beach, nice and sunny. It was just beautiful!
I know, I know, long ramble. I'm trying to convince myself that I did the right thing by skipping on last 2 workouts. Don't need to push so hard I hurt myself. On that note, I think I'm gonna crawl off to bed. It's 10PM now, and there's a 5AM workout tomorrow.
Originally posted by cinc310
Well, doing butterfly after tht rolling skating that much would make you tried.
well... Kind of true.
I've been doing double workouts about 2-3 times a week for last few weeks... This morning, I was stiull in the cold-pool-shock, so I showed up for practice, but didn't swim.
Friday morning, there was frost on the ground, and the pool was very cold! I'm guessing around 70-72. Alone, that's okay, but a 72F pool, in a 30 degree weather... well... I think I may have done some 2000 or 2500, never even warmed up. It was paiful to swim through muscle spasams. Especially when abs spazz out around your stomach and make you nauseated.
I was freezing cold all day, and that's after a long hot shower and a 2 hour nap wrapped in a down comforter, with one cat on either side of me. It was ugly!
I was swimming, and thinking, is this how hypothermia feels, jsut before you pass out??? It felt like I couldn't move.
As it turns out, the 2 days over christmas, someone turned off the heater switch on the pools. UGH!
last 2 mornings, knowing the pools haven't fully heated up yet, I just couldn't bring myself to get in... with the frost out on the ground. In the afternoons, it was fine, even with the colder pool. Freestyle clinic yesterday afternoon, butterfly today.
It's kind of odd, I swam in the ocean when it was 68-73.. and it wasn't nearly that bad. I think cold water combined with freezing temperature outside made it bad.
Plus, my massage therp. tells me that my right delt is overworked, and staring to get inflamed... so that gave me another excuse to take it easy.
Soo... then I figured... my legs aren't hurting (yet)... so, I went rollerblading. You'd know the area, down on Balboa peninsula in Newport Beach, there is about 3 miles of sidewalk along the beach. So I went up and down twice... probably around 12 miles, maybe a tad more. It was around 65 or 70 at the beach, nice and sunny. It was just beautiful!
I know, I know, long ramble. I'm trying to convince myself that I did the right thing by skipping on last 2 workouts. Don't need to push so hard I hurt myself. On that note, I think I'm gonna crawl off to bed. It's 10PM now, and there's a 5AM workout tomorrow.
