What are your 2008 Swimming New Years Resolutions?
What have you been procrastinating?
Mine are to:
1) lose weight (go from 215 to 205 or better) and
2) do a few more SDK's on hard swims when I'm tired
What are yours?
Share 'em here
We might hold you to 'em.
1) swim 8000yds in a day (not like, everyday, just once to see if I can do it).
2) learn to swim breastroke and swim it in a meet.
3) swim an im in a meet (after I learn breastroke).
4) do more im training (kinda along the same vein of reasoning that Terry mentioned earlier, to mix things up and work the muscles in different fashions).
5) swim a 47 sec. in the 100yd free.
6) swim a 53 sec. in the 100yd fly.
7) swim a 20 in the 50yd free.
8) Smile more!
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My goal for 2008 is to learn another stroke since I only know how to swim ***. Also, I want to try to add dryland back into my workouts. I'm afraid to, because I quit weights, runnning and biking due to severe back pain and after being pain free since I started to swim my worry is, it will come back.
My goal for 2008 is to learn another stroke since I only know how to swim ***. Also, I want to try to add dryland back into my workouts. I'm afraid to, because I quit weights, runnning and biking due to severe back pain and after being pain free since I started to swim my worry is, it will come back.
1. Go a PB in the 100 *** (somewhere around 1.05 would be nice)
2, Develop a decent 200 freestyle
3. Develop a quality SDK and implement at least 2-3 off of every wall
4. Work on a strong backstroke kick to hopefully allow me to swim a respectable 100
#1 Have a healthy baby. (He should weigh at least 25 pounds at birth!!!) :lmao: Find a name for this child :p
#2 Swim 4 (or more) days a week. Practice times can vary.
#3 Do Trans Tahoe swim by myself. I've wanted to for the last 6 years but something has always come up. Anybody have a boat I might borrow?! :lmao:
#4 Lift weights 2-3 times/week; run 2-3 times/week. (This should help with #1, just in case the baby doesn't weigh 25 pounds!)
#5 My daughter wants to: learn to play tennis, go rock climbing, ride bikes, play basketball, go to the snow, etc... (all with me "after the baby comes out of your tummy").
#6 Find someone to team teach with, so I can work part time. (That would be the best!)
#7 Go to Austin and not totally embarrass myself. Get together with many on this Forum, have a great time, and probably embarrass myself further!
#8 Go to LCNationals in Oregon, and hopefully do well :)
From the Boston Globe: "Easy ways to get, stay healthy in 2008"
www.boston.com/.../
From Nancy Clark, a registered dietitian, author, and sports nutritionist:
1) Don't focus on dieting. Focus on eating. If you are on a strict diet and get too hungry, you are more likely to overeat, especially in the evening. Rather than dieting by day and blowing it by night, try fueling adequately by day and dieting by night. Eat every four hours or so, and make sure to eat a "second lunch" - think of it as another meal rather than a snack - in the midafternoon to keep your energy up and make you less hungry in the evening. Try a yogurt with granola and fruit, peanut butter on graham crackers with a decaf latte, or even a slice or two of pizza.
2) Budget your food as you do your money. A rough guideline for daily caloric intake: Multiply your ideal body weight by 15 (i.e., 1,800 calories if you want to weigh 120 pounds) if you're moderately active; add a few hundred more calories if you're very active. Divide those calories out across the day to keep yourself well fed.
3) Eat three different foods at every meal. Don't eat a scoop of tuna for lunch - eat tuna on a roll with a salad.
4) Eating will not solve emotional problems. Many people eat to make themselves feel better when they're upset. It works in the short run; certain foods can temporarily boost mood. But in the long run, you'll have the same emotional problems - plus the extra weight.
5) Don't drink too many calories. It's easy to drink calories without noticing: that eggnog latte at Starbucks has nearly as many calories as a Big Mac. It's OK to have one as an occasional treat, but consider it a meal, not a drink.
