Ok, picture this. You get to the pool and it's empty. You think to yourself, this is gonna be a great swim, especially since the rest of my day as been not so great. Then when you finally get into the water, you push off and begin swimming when something amazing happens. Now picture this. This amazing thing is comparable only to you first day in the pool.....every! You realize that you are going to have an off day. This is what happened to me today. My breastroke was making waves so big you could body surf...My fly was like trying to watch a chipmunk do an IM (not that my fly has ever been good, but today was especially bad meaning it was the thing of nightmares), my free was horrible! The only thing that seemed to be going right was my backstroke. So anyways, I was looking for what people do to get over their bad days? I just reverted back to very elementary drills and tried to float (yes it was that bad I was sinking like I was made of lead). What do you do on your off days? Do you finish your workout, leave immediatly and hope that no one noticed, or stay extra and try to make the best of it? Hopefully tomorrow will be better!!
~Kyra
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I thought I would resurrect this thread because this post I think fits best here. So today when I was swimming, everything started out great and then went down hill from there. After my warm-up my muscles started to feel really heavy. It felt like was swimming through mud. Then my calves started to get sore, and my muscles got heavier. I had really sore muscles this weekend (went snowboarding for the first time this season..it was good:p), so I took a few days off. Yesterday was awsome (broke my personal best time by about 5 seconds), not even the slightest hint of soreness, but today was really hard. Any ideas? Thanx a bunch!
~Krya
ah, yet another time for me to interject a profound peril a wisdom ...
"It's the bad days that make the good ones seem better." Ok, that's not it exactly but more or less ... the bad days let you appreciate the good ones all the more.
I know when I have bad days I am more fired up to get into the pool and work harder the next day. I use it as motivation.
Originally posted by Seagurl51
... (went snowboarding for the first time this season..it was good:p)...
I'm very, very jealous. Here in PA, we don't have snow yet.:(
Originally posted by Scansy
I'm very, very jealous. Here in PA, we don't have snow yet.:(
You can have some of ours! I'll send the blizzard we're getting right now (that is making the roads bad so I cant' go to the pool:mad: ) your way. It's dumping PLENTY of snow!
~Kyra
