It is soo hard for me to concentrate during lap swim at my pool. Anyone else have this issue? Today i did my regular saturday morning swim. As I am traveling to the pool, I decide I am going to count how many laps I did today. I start counting as I go and then find myself trying to count my breaths for each length, or figure out a new drill to try, or why the heck is this person in front of me as slow as molasses in my lane? THEN, I rest when i hit the wall, and check out the other lanes..I get all competitive with strangers in the other lanes and it just ends embarassingly for myself. haha. On the way home, im mad that i didnt keep track of my laps n stuff. I dont time myslef as of yet because of my unorganized workouts thus far. I am going to join a masters team very very soon, hopefully that will remedy some of my issue. :shakeshead:
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I always lose count so I use the lap feature on my watch. It keeps me straight but I waste time at the wall. Its: swim up, flip, get feet in place, check watch, punch button, hear beep, push off, oh wait did it beep or not, check watch again, can't see too foggy, ok its right , start swimming from dead stop, repeat every 100.
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Since I am a distance swimmer, I no longer count lengths in a pool nor loops in an ocean. I fixed this counting problem: I swim by the hour; much easier that way and then divide it all up when I finish into miles.
And we all know that the very second you ask yourself this question: was that 12 or 14, it's over; you've lost count :rofl:.
Island - count by the hour, exactly what I did. Do you also count strokes by the minute. My trainer would hold up signs eg 54 strokes, 60 strokes, 75 strokes.
If I dropped he would point up in the air which meant pick up the pace. If I was stroking too fast he gave me an up and down palm horizontal to the water motion. It became that over time I could tell how many strokes I was doing.
UNfortunately blackbeard, I have on many occasions banged my head on the wall, and oh what a lump i endured.. As a multitasker, i also banged my right foot on the lane line from an intense foot cramp on that same lap, haha.
wow, dreamer, you need to stop dreaming, or staring at the eye candy on deck/in the next lane and start concentrating more on your swim!
try counting your strokes every length. after a while, you'll realize that it takes you x strokes before you hit your turn, and you'll start preparing yourself as you approach that number. For example, in backstroke, I have 15 strokes per 25. Once I hit 10, head is back further and looking for the flags at 12/13, then its one stroke, and flip.
it has been said that all swimmers have ADD.
If I were you, I wouldn't get too concerned until you bang into the wall headfirst while lost in a thought. :frustrated:
UNfortunately blackbeard, I have on many occasions banged my head on the wall, and oh what a lump i endured.. As a multitasker, i also banged my right foot on the lane line from an intense foot cramp on that same lap, haha.
Do what Fort suggested in the Swim Rant thread. Dive under them, turn over and wave as you go by.
Paul
That would be frowned upon, I expect, during practice. ;)
Only if you do the same number of laps and insist on the same lane every time...
And the same kickboard, same pull buoy, same.....Quit talking about me!
it has been said that all swimmers have ADD.
i mean, crap, those of us who aren't training on top of 20,000ft ocean trenches (Go Donna! :drink:) have only a black line to stare at for 60/75/90+ minutes during workout. with our faces in the water, its only that line and our imagination to entertain us.
I was quoted in a local paper, when asked "What do you think about over 4.4 miles?," to have thought about fellow forumite SwimmieAvsFan and playing hockey during this year's 4.4 mile bay swim.
If I were you, I wouldn't get too concerned until you bang into the wall headfirst while lost in a thought. :frustrated:
I have swimming ADD (must constantly swim with different people in different environments or I get bored), but swimming cures any of my slight OCD tendencies out of the pool. Interesting. Go figure. All the boring back and forth over the black line is an OCDers dream! :rofl:
