Cheating at practice?

I was awimming with some age groupers, one girl was really complaining about a breathing set. I told her that since I was an adult, I could breath whenever I wanted to. The coach told me to swim in my own lane and mind my own business. I swam 25 yds breathing with every arm. Well, there's a reminder of what an even bigger cheater I am. I regularly cheat on breathing sets. I always do bilateral breathing. But if we have a long breath control sets and I'm too winded, I breathe. Not sure how much breath control stuff helps anyway as one of the latest threads revealed. I try not to breathe out of turns if I can. I usually breathe into them so I don't have to breathe out of them. I'm not above "turtling" a turn either, especially if I'm just warming up. As for one armed fly, I do that if I have to or do more SDKs. It's survival. I don't want to get killed by another flyer. If I stopped to kick, I'd lose all momentum. I guess my only redeeming non-cheating trait is not leaving early. I also try to coordinate with lanemates on "choice: stroke" sets so we don't run over each other and stay in the correct lane with people of fairly equivalent speed. It's masters, so anything goes and it's hard to think how a blanket workout wouldn't have to be adapted to the physical capabilities or injuries of different people. If you've got sore shoulders, you may have to skip or drill fly or skip the paddles. If you've got sore knees, avoid breaststroke. If you're training for sprints, you may have to opt out of some stuff like Ande does. I'd also rather think about technique or pacing than worrying about who's wearing fins or pull buoys or kicking the assigned kick stroke. We don't need police at practice too. That has got to be self-policed. So cheat away like any mature adult. :banana: In "cheating," perhaps you will make yourself a better swimmer by doing what is most suitable for you and adapt your workouts in the most helpful fashion. If you get DQ'd at a meet, no one to blame but yourself. I'll be sure to report my first DQ so everyone can laugh at me. Wait, I already have. I crawled out of the water on a 100 IM when I lost my goggles and was laughingly handed a DQ slip. At least it wasn't for a one handed touch.

I was awimming with some age groupers, one girl was really complaining about a breathing set. I told her that since I was an adult, I could breath whenever I wanted to. The coach told me to swim in my own lane and mind my own business. I swam 25 yds breathing with every arm. Well, there's a reminder of what an even bigger cheater I am. I regularly cheat on breathing sets. I always do bilateral breathing. But if we have a long breath control sets and I'm too winded, I breathe. Not sure how much breath control stuff helps anyway as one of the latest threads revealed. I try not to breathe out of turns if I can. I usually breathe into them so I don't have to breathe out of them. I'm not above "turtling" a turn either, especially if I'm just warming up. As for one armed fly, I do that if I have to or do more SDKs. It's survival. I don't want to get killed by another flyer. If I stopped to kick, I'd lose all momentum. I guess my only redeeming non-cheating trait is not leaving early. I also try to coordinate with lanemates on "choice: stroke" sets so we don't run over each other and stay in the correct lane with people of fairly equivalent speed. It's masters, so anything goes and it's hard to think how a blanket workout wouldn't have to be adapted to the physical capabilities or injuries of different people. If you've got sore shoulders, you may have to skip or drill fly or skip the paddles. If you've got sore knees, avoid breaststroke. If you're training for sprints, you may have to opt out of some stuff like Ande does. I'd also rather think about technique or pacing than worrying about who's wearing fins or pull buoys or kicking the assigned kick stroke. We don't need police at practice too. That has got to be self-policed. So cheat away like any mature adult. :banana: In "cheating," perhaps you will make yourself a better swimmer by doing what is most suitable for you and adapt your workouts in the most helpful fashion. If you get DQ'd at a meet, no one to blame but yourself. I'll be sure to report my first DQ so everyone can laugh at me. Wait, I already have. I crawled out of the water on a 100 IM when I lost my goggles and was laughingly handed a DQ slip. At least it wasn't for a one handed touch.