i have been reading a lot of the posts herein.... and it has occurred to me... (and this will surely betray my newbie-ness) there are an awful lot of abbreviations and terms used that leave me essentially having no clue what was said.... is there a book out there someplace "swimese for dummies" or the like? i speak several languages, sadly swimese is not yet among them.....
i can swim two miles comfortably, and have energy left over after to go run three miles... but decode the posts on this board?....
any reference/resource suggestions gladly accepted...
thanks.
be,
jim
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... and I think I need a swimming math lesson ... seriously, when I first started, coach would start talking about 300 this and 100 that and I would panic - ARGH! What is 300 divided by 25? times two? That would be how many laps/back-n-forths ... by then he was well down the list of things to do.
Here's a term that will stump if you are a beginner: swim means freestyle/stroke means anything other than freestyle! (Am I right on this?)
... and I think I need a swimming math lesson ... seriously, when I first started, coach would start talking about 300 this and 100 that and I would panic - ARGH! What is 300 divided by 25? times two? That would be how many laps/back-n-forths ... by then he was well down the list of things to do.
Here's a term that will stump if you are a beginner: swim means freestyle/stroke means anything other than freestyle! (Am I right on this?)
