Help!
I'm trying to aquire the motivation to swim daily...well six days a week, one day of rest. I need to lose around 50 pounds by winter, but I still can't get myself in the pool.
I don't know why. I guess a few reasons could be:
(1) Social anxiety
(2) People seeing how fat I am
(3) Failing
Can someone help me gain motivation to get into the pool so I can improve my life?
Thanks!
Best,
Chris
Former Member
Yeah, sure, it's possible. You could be a natural sprinter. *Shrug*. It's just, I guess you don't see that kind of time very often from someone just starting to swim - especially from a flat push off (not a dive) and without a flipturn.
I'm only questioning it because it's a pretty good time and pretty unusual (imo) in those conditions. Are you sure it was a regulation size pool and everything?
Starting from zero days a week I would start at 3-4 and work up from there after a few weeks or month.
Motivation? I just remind myself how good it feels after working out.- I also remind myself about my exerciseLESS job.... oh and my gut.
Weights/Swim- Personally I do both most times weights first- I feel it warms me up.
Start at your own pace- I just started back up after taking 1/2 of my life off from swimming - 20 year break. I started out with doing 500-800 for a few weeks and then 1200 a couple weeks and am now at 2400.
100 Free 200 ***/Back
50 Free/***/Back kicking X2
Repeat = 1200
4X50 Free/***/Back on 60sec/65sec/60sec seperated by 100 kick
A few sprints and finish with 2X50 25 under water 25 easy swim
The pressures off I don't have to go 2 a days any more- I keep it simple- I tell myself atleast 2days weights and atleast3-4 days of swimming.
Keep it up and hit some meets you'll have fun- remember this isn't a chore.
Have Fun see ya at future meets
A.K.
A 30 second 50 yard time from a push off with an open turn is darn good, doesn't matter if you are 6-2 or not.......OK, time to start planning your competition career, hehe.
It helps to have a training partner. I recruited a former Div. II record holder (in backstroke) to our team about six months ago. He got hooked pretty fast; now we're both afraid to skip practice for fear that the other guy will gain an edge. Don't tell him, but I think he's starting to pass me now (the early bloomer thing).
Definately....it is fun! Chris, I did my first competition ever at age 40 ...start training, and when you have enough confidence, start looking at a meet that would be easy to get to, and pick a few events to prepare for. I learned to swim at 38, and joined Masters 6 months later, but did not feel ready to compete for another 18 months, so think of that type of time frame.
I think it is 19 and up if you are not on a college swim team. 28 is very good. About using the blocks, our blocks are not allowed to be used during lap swim time, but if there is no one in the lane, I have asked the guards if I could use them and they usually don't have an issue(perhaps because one of them is my son?). Anyway, I would not worry about starts quite yet. Get your endurance up and keep working on your strokes. I would add more freestyle in, since you seem to be a good sprint freestyler, you will drop your time more if you train more in that. With training, you could drop your time a whole lot more. A good sprint freestyler your age would be going 22-23 off the blocks, a great one faster....but you just started, and 28 is really good for that. It took me 2 years to add flip turns in, so good job.
