I was just wondering what do people take to the pool to see/keep track of their work out.
At the 'Y" they don't have wipe or chalk boards.
So I use a paper protector, print out my workout from the forum and turn and tape both top and bottom of the paper protector to help keep some of the water out. It works - it stills gets wet, but I can still see it. I can use the same workout twice before I have to throw it out from being to wet.
I was just wonder what other do that may work better.
Daytimer makes a plastic zipper pouch that I use. They're a little expensive (about $5) but last for several months before they start leaking a lot. I print my workout in LARGE BOLD print so I can read it (the joy of getting older!), trim the edges to fit into the plastic and I'm on my way. One thing that helps keep the water out is I stick it to a kickboard and stand the board against the starting block.
I rarely write workouts any more but when I do, I just print them off on my laser printer on marigold paper. They stand up well to the water and stand out on the deck with the colored paper. If I'm swimming with the masters team, the coach puts it on a dry erase board. With the kids team, the coach has them written on paper and keeps it hidden from us so we won't complan :D
Alison
Well, since I work out with a team 99% of the time, I'm usually at a loss when I do swim on my own. Heck, even when I travel I try to find a local team so I don't have to figure out what to do on my own.
The last time I swam on my own was last Fall, went back to PA to visit family. I'm not sure if there is a team there, but I didn't have a car so didn't want to deal with early or inconvenient times. I did the Y thing; kind of thought through what I'd do when I was in the locker room changing, and mostly did it.
I have to say, swimming on my own even a few times makes me appreciate having a coach tell me what to do, and a group to do it together with. It is just too easy to adjust it on your own.
Well, some people call me a bit retentive, but I take a scuba slate (small white board you can write on with pencil and erase with a regular eraser - you can get them at scuba shops) and write all my workouts down for Masters, and when I swim by myself I write it on the board and it is right there. I take it to work after practice and write the practice in my log book and record the yardage in my Excel sheet. The advantages are that I can see the little white board better than the board our coach uses, I have about three years' worth of workouts if I need one, and I can easily keep track of my yardage per week. Maybe I am a bit retentive...
I, too, don't write down what a workout will contain; I decide this the night before and know what has to transpire. However, when I was in Masters for years, I did pre-write all of my workouts on index cards; I must have had hundreds, so I would pick one out and take it to pool and get it wet and stick on the side of the pool, and I reused all of mine many times because they were written in waterproof ink.
But now none of those apply.
donna
I print mine out and in l arge enough print that I can see it a few feet away form the pool. It stays semi-dry and I can read it easily.
On the lighter side my work outs are in basicly a swimmer code. I often wonder what other people think when they try to read what I am doing. 5x100 will be easy enough to figure out but all the drill, and stroke lingo along with intervals must look like a mess.
Got Boost
Yeah, I noticed that my arms aren't long enough for regular print either, and throw in some foggy goggles....
I use index cards in sandwich bags.
I could get about one set on the index card. The print is soooo big that it takes the whole page, sometimes both sides to print.
