:help:
:dunno: or :lolup: ?
Since I'm new to swimming i have a problem and need of advice. I've been swimming 5 days a week for about a month now at my local 25 yard gym pool. I've gotten to a point where my technique is somewhat good but i cannot swim more then 50 yards straight without coughing a lung (or at least feeling like it). Yesterday i got some inspiration and did about 400 with a couple of seconds breather every 25 yards. To my surprise it went well, and i actually felt i was improving my technique (endurance breeds efficient swimming?). Anyways, I find it extremely hard to focus on technique wen I'm trying to work on endurance and here lies the problem.
Do i keep working on establishing second-nature proper technique and keep doing 25/50 yards until i feel i'm ready to overcome long distance, or should i start working on endurance regardless of whatever technique faults i think i have at the moment.
I see swimmers doing laps at my pool and i can't help but think about their faulty technique. i don't want to be one of them.
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Leonard
Great analogy. I'm gonna steal that one for sure. I do say it takes twice as long to unlearn a stroke error as to learn correct technique from the start, but the wood grain analogy is more pithy.
Feel free - I used it with my racewalkers and it seemed to resonate, at least with those who had some woodworking experience.
Nice pun, BTW.
-LBJ
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Former Member
Leonard
Great analogy. I'm gonna steal that one for sure. I do say it takes twice as long to unlearn a stroke error as to learn correct technique from the start, but the wood grain analogy is more pithy.
Feel free - I used it with my racewalkers and it seemed to resonate, at least with those who had some woodworking experience.
Nice pun, BTW.
-LBJ
