Hi, new to the board, back in the pool about 4 months.
Worked up to doing Mo Chambers workouts, but always substituting for fly in the IM's because I just never learned it.
I've always been a lousy kicker, but I bought a pair of Zoomers and quit using the board, which has helped a bunch. I do dolphins front and side and flutter on my back. I just started to dolphin kick off the flip (without the fins), which has really helped reduce stroke count (10 catchup; 13 -- 14 normally; 15 + is a failed lap). I'm 6'2" and dropped from 200+ when I started down to 190 - 195, which feels great.
Today I tried doing the fly legs in the IM's wearing the Zoomers, and I think there's some hope. Can a 44 year old lousy kicker learn to fly? Is it OK to learn with fins? Are there bad habits to watch out for when learning with or without the fins? Or should I forget about fly and just concentrate on the other three strokes?
I'm having a lot of fun swimming again, love the workouts and chat here, and am not afraid of looking like a complete dweeb.
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Originally posted by jpheather
Have you tried an antihistime before you swim (like Claritin)? Sure sounds like you're allergic to the water or air around the pool!
Thanks so much Julie for trying to help.
I tried Claritin about fifteen years ago and it didn't do anything at all (like most of the allergy meds I've tried). When Claritin-D came out, I tried it and it opened my nasal passage like nothing I had experienced before or since. Unbelievably good breathing! However, if you were to read the possible side-effects on the label, I had many of them massively. It totally blew me away, made me sick.
Late last night when I made my last post, I said that the pseudoephedrine combo had helped a lot. About the time of that post, it was wearing off and I was congested all night and all day again and I'm tired of dealing with it. If I would have known, I would have taken more of the drug this morning although I think it loses its value the more I take it.
I'm at a low point right now. The weather is hanging in there but I'm going to have to quit swimming for the year. I didn't expect to be able to swim this long and figuring it was going to end was the reason I stuck it out as things gradually became worse. Whatever is bothering me, possibly chlorine, has become cumulative. And the problem carrying over to following days should seem odd but it isn't for me. I just chalk it up to yet another thing that now makes me sick. Next year I'll either swim a lot less or be ready with whatever new drugs I can try. One of the reasons I am an exercise nut is because it provides relief for these problems. Swimming is the best exercise of them all so I hope I find a way to get back to it.
"Is it a problem to have a runny nose once u start swimming? I get runny noses but that's it. I blow it out and then it's solved and I dont' have other symptoms."
Well there is some good to my posting about my stupid problems after all. See how lucky you are to have such a slight problem. Sounds reasonably normal to me. I would just try to be discreet and proper about it.
Originally posted by jpheather
Have you tried an antihistime before you swim (like Claritin)? Sure sounds like you're allergic to the water or air around the pool!
Thanks so much Julie for trying to help.
I tried Claritin about fifteen years ago and it didn't do anything at all (like most of the allergy meds I've tried). When Claritin-D came out, I tried it and it opened my nasal passage like nothing I had experienced before or since. Unbelievably good breathing! However, if you were to read the possible side-effects on the label, I had many of them massively. It totally blew me away, made me sick.
Late last night when I made my last post, I said that the pseudoephedrine combo had helped a lot. About the time of that post, it was wearing off and I was congested all night and all day again and I'm tired of dealing with it. If I would have known, I would have taken more of the drug this morning although I think it loses its value the more I take it.
I'm at a low point right now. The weather is hanging in there but I'm going to have to quit swimming for the year. I didn't expect to be able to swim this long and figuring it was going to end was the reason I stuck it out as things gradually became worse. Whatever is bothering me, possibly chlorine, has become cumulative. And the problem carrying over to following days should seem odd but it isn't for me. I just chalk it up to yet another thing that now makes me sick. Next year I'll either swim a lot less or be ready with whatever new drugs I can try. One of the reasons I am an exercise nut is because it provides relief for these problems. Swimming is the best exercise of them all so I hope I find a way to get back to it.
"Is it a problem to have a runny nose once u start swimming? I get runny noses but that's it. I blow it out and then it's solved and I dont' have other symptoms."
Well there is some good to my posting about my stupid problems after all. See how lucky you are to have such a slight problem. Sounds reasonably normal to me. I would just try to be discreet and proper about it.
