Women's Locker Room

There's a great foam roller stretch for piriformis tightness. You sit on the roller and cross one leg over the other (straight) leg. Then you lean over towards the crossed leg side and roll back and forth over your hip on that side. Like having a really deep massage on the hip muscles. Hurts at first, then feels much looser.

I have a thick band and sometime I take it off if it is going to get caught on something. I usually wear it swimming, but sometimes I have taken it off for other reasons like my hand sometimes swells up or for safety and then I don't get around to putting it right back on. I like advil and anything with dextrmethorthine(spelling) like mucinex. I have had hip problems in the past from kyaking. I now keep my boat loser. If I go playboating and have to roll up alot it can act up for a few days as well as my shoulder on my perfered rolling side. I lay on my back and with it staying on the floor I pull my knee up and across my chest to get a stretch. I might evenlift the opposite shoulder to get more or a lower back/ hip stretch. It feels really good to me. I am searching for suits that are just one layer and hard to find in sporting good stores these days. I was buying my suits too big and I just bought one very tight I hope it is the right idea. It feels a little:blush: bashful. I know nothing about tech suits. I forgot the other questions. I am resting my shoulder these 3 day before my meet SAt . I hope that is the right thing to do.:confused:

I never take my wedding ring off (not even when inspecting vessels at the refinery), but it is just a plain gold band. I specifically got a plain gold band so I could leave it on all the time. I never wear my engagement ring in the pool. I have a pair of small diamond stud earrings that I wore once to practice by accident. At the end of the practice, someone said, "wow, your earring is falling out!" The backs on both earrings had disappeared (bottom of pool, probably?) These are the screw-on kind of backs... like the earring is threaded... so I'm guessing the pool chemicals ate through them somehow. Fortunately, the earrings were still in my ears and unharmed. I got new backs and was good to go. Ever since then, I doublecheck that all jewelry is removed (aside from the wedding band.) Sorry, can't help you with the other questions, Fort! I had the same thing happen to me and now at my pool I am known as the neurotic swimmers who checks her ears after every 10 laps or so! Twice my earring was hanging on by a "thread" with the back somewhere on the bottom of the pool. Unfortunately I have very crooked piercings and to get the earring through leaves my ear bloody, so I don't take them out.

Have to agree with Puff, Martha. Racing suits are just not designed to enhance female pulchritude, and the FS II tank is notable for the bulge phenomenon. I like the full body suits as well. To quote Tall Paul, though, you're there for a swim race, not a fashion show. So don your speed suit and swim fast! Thank you Fort and Puff. I want to be fast, but more importantly I want to have a good time. If I think I look like a pig, I might swim like a canned ham. I realize I could use therapy or at least a self-help book, but for now I am going to try the full suit instead! It would be nice if there had been a warning label on the box. :eeew:

For me, I usually look pretty decent in "regular" suits. However, I look quite hideous in the FS II regular suit style (I think it's called recordbreaker cut). It's not flattering on most by any means. It can even make some of the kids with great bodies look odd. The cut is strange. I usually wear a poly suit (practice meet) or go for the full leg suit if I'm looking to race. But I've worn all of 'em. Kneeskin isn't too flattering either IMO. Full leg looks the best to me. Have to agree with Puff, Martha. Racing suits are just not designed to enhance female pulchritude, and the FS II tank is notable for the bulge phenomenon. I like the full body suits as well. To quote Tall Paul, though, you're there for a swim race, not a fashion show. So don your speed suit and swim fast!

Some questions for the ladies: 1. Is everyone wearing their wedding/engagement ring(s) during practice or meets? 2. Anyone tried oil of oregano for congestion? A friend recommended this to me recently. 3. Anyone had a nagging hip injury? Dr. Jimby says these can take awhile to fix. Mine's been dragging on for almost 4 weeks now. I think I hurt it with over stretching and hard kicking, but I'm not sure. 4. Anyone tried any of the new speed suits: Xterra or Renegade by AquaZone? I was wondering if they fit better than the B70. There seems to be a lot of women who have trouble getting the B70 up high enough in the crotch. Maybe the thigh area is too small? 5. For chicks that are lifting, if you take time off from weights, does it take awhile to get back to your previous level? I have this notion that it takes women longer to build muscle and that we can lose it more easily ... but this could be false. Hey Fort! 1. I don't even bring mine to the pool... they come off before I leave the house 2. Yes, you can get it at Whole Foods... I put a little on a hanky and hold it close to your nose... works wonders. 3. nope 4. all I have is my speedo 5. i don't lift, so I can't say

I bought myself a Fastskin II off Swimoutlet. It's the Recordbreaker in the regular suit style with an open back; not the knee or ankle length. I wear a 36, so I ordered a 36. The suit's compression causes my hips to bulge out the bottom of the leg openings. No matter where I put the leg openings :blush: it looks funky. Is this the way it is supposed to look? The suit does not feel tight, but I can't imagine walking around in it for 3 or so hours at a meet. I am thinking of going to a local store and trying on some other brands or styles before I order another one. I can tell that if I get it any larger I am going to have drag. Is this why people mostly buy the knee or ankle length? Please give me your input, advice, experiences with these types of suits. Thanks. Don't wear it 3 hr at a meet.Change out of it right after your swim and dry it as best you can for your next event.(These suits are faster dry and the less you wear it the less it stretches out.)

I wear a 36, so I ordered a 36. If anything, you should be ordering a size or two smaller for a racing suit than for a practice suit. In a no-leg tank style, it is going to make you look lumpy, because there are plenty of places for that extra flesh to escape rather than being compressed into the suit. And although a meet is not a fashion show, I have to think that my flab is not not just unattractive (especially when bulging out of my suit in weird shapes), but slow. So I go for legs.

I bought myself a Fastskin II off Swimoutlet. It's the Recordbreaker in the regular suit style with an open back; not the knee or ankle length. I wear a 36, so I ordered a 36. The suit's compression causes my hips to bulge out the bottom of the leg openings. No matter where I put the leg openings :blush: it looks funky. Is this the way it is supposed to look? The suit does not feel tight, but I can't imagine walking around in it for 3 or so hours at a meet. I am thinking of going to a local store and trying on some other brands or styles before I order another one. I can tell that if I get it any larger I am going to have drag. Is this why people mostly buy the knee or ankle length? Please give me your input, advice, experiences with these types of suits. Thanks.

I bought myself a Fastskin II off Swimoutlet. It's the Recordbreaker in the regular suit style with an open back; not the knee or ankle length. I wear a 36, so I ordered a 36. The suit's compression causes my hips to bulge out the bottom of the leg openings. No matter where I put the leg openings :blush: it looks funky. Is this the way it is supposed to look? The suit does not feel tight, but I can't imagine walking around in it for 3 or so hours at a meet. I am thinking of going to a local store and trying on some other brands or styles before I order another one. I can tell that if I get it any larger I am going to have drag. Is this why people mostly buy the knee or ankle length? Please give me your input, advice, experiences with these types of suits. Thanks. For me, I usually look pretty decent in "regular" suits. However, I look quite hideous in the FS II regular suit style (I think it's called recordbreaker cut). It's not flattering on most by any means. It can even make some of the kids with great bodies look odd. The cut is strange. I usually wear a poly suit (practice meet) or go for the full leg suit if I'm looking to race. But I've worn all of 'em. Kneeskin isn't too flattering either IMO. Full leg looks the best to me.