But first the best news of the day.
I JUST FINISHED MY FIRST FULL (i.e no hanging on the wall, waiting to die) PRACTICE!!!! Woot. Did it in less than my goal of 4 weeks, 2.7 weeks.
Now for the boneheaded part (aka why I made a full practice)
1) Kept the pace down. Ego was trying to swim in my place.
2) STOPPED HOLDING MY DARN BREATH. Kinda hard to get good oxygen flow when you are exhaling at the same time you're trying to inhale. Exhale WHILE underwater dummy. Works much better that way. Geez.
3) Bilateral breathing. Realized I was breathing to the left the whole time. Worked on a three stroke left-right pattern. Gonna take a lotta work to break this pattern but I'm gonna do it.
But I feel great.
Since I started on Saturday, 15 September, I :
1) Have lost 7 pounds
2) Have dropped my resting heart rate from 80 to 68.
3) have much better 'wind' and run up flights of stairs now.
4) smell like chlorine all the time and LOVE it.
5) Haven't had a tension headache.
6) Have bruises under my eyes from my goggles
7) still hate breaststroke
8) think anything over 100, is still considered 'distance'
9) Can't wait for the 28th, my first meet in 18 years.
Paul
Paul
I can bilateral breathe but my problem is I dont have the oxygen to do a flip turn all the time. So I am going to have to work on that.
I am doing 4 mornings. I am often sore and very tired.
I am not sure about weightloss but my pants fit much better so that is good.
I can keep up with all the good swimmers when we do sprint drills. But I lag waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy behind in long distance swims. I am just not there cardiovasularly ( not sure if that is a word LOL) yet
Katie
Katie,
My goal is 4 days a week, this week will only be three :(.
Are you exhaling while your head is still underwater? I was also having similar problems with feeling starved for air doing flip turns but once I really started to concentrate on exhaling, I started to feel more replenished on the inhales. Next time you swim, focus on that and I think you might be surprised.
Paul
Paul
I can bilateral breathe but my problem is I dont have the oxygen to do a flip turn all the time. So I am going to have to work on that.
I am doing 4 mornings. I am often sore and very tired.
I am not sure about weightloss but my pants fit much better so that is good.
I can keep up with all the good swimmers when we do sprint drills. But I lag waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy behind in long distance swims. I am just not there cardiovasularly ( not sure if that is a word LOL) yet
Katie
Katie,
My goal is 4 days a week, this week will only be three :(.
Are you exhaling while your head is still underwater? I was also having similar problems with feeling starved for air doing flip turns but once I really started to concentrate on exhaling, I started to feel more replenished on the inhales. Next time you swim, focus on that and I think you might be surprised.
Paul
