Ande's 90 day thread got me wondering what everyone perceives as their strengths and weaknesses en route to this swimming nirvana. From both a physical and mental perspective. I guess mine are:
Strengths:
Physical: flexibility, some natural strength
Mental: stubborn and determined, willing to try new techniques/workouts
Weaknesses:
Physical: loosey goosey joints, gimpy left shoulder
Mental: really lazy about counting strokes or swim math, intrinsic dislike of freestyle > 50 yards
Strengths:
- some natural talent
- high pain tolerance
- hyper-competitive
Weaknesses:
- hyper-competitive
- inability to come to terms with effects of ageing :toohurt:
- sweet tooth
*Strength: Ability to comsume massive amounts of food and Beer (fortunately I brew my own :drink:), Aerobic Fitness, Mental toughness, willingness to try new things, access to a pool, have an e-Coach, Cross Training, Pull, Lots of Toys
*Weaknesses: Flexibility, Technique, Kicking, Flip Turns, Starts, Pacing, Stroke rate, DPS, Free style, Fly, Back stroke, *** stroke, Breathing off the walls, Swimming experience, Competition experience, no access to a live coach or team, swim alone, access to a 25y pool only
*In order of importance
Wait a minute! You just told us all that your SDKs stink. :thhbbb:
Bill, that was hilarious. Thank you. Good wine and beer a weakness? How can we get in the trash talking celebratory spirit without it?
Yeah. Well. Call me slooooow to catch on! :p
Strengths Physical-Very flexible ankles and knees.Good leg strength.
Mental-Always searching for new tips and techniques,excellent at psyching up for meets,sprinters mentality.
Weaknesses-Physical-bad back,shoulders and knees that are always one hard workout from injury.Sprinters mentality(I get bored swimming distance free and for me distance is anything over 200.)
Strengths:
Being older than Rich Abrahams
Allergy to work (lazy)
Ability to ignore *** & backstroke
Ability to ignore the existence of anything longer than 100
Being able to burn more calories than the beer & wine intake
Weaknesses:
Having Rich Abrahams in my age group for one year
Allergy to work (lazy)
Fascination with the 50 fly
Succumbing to pressure to swim a 100
Single malt scotch
Strengths:
Inward humour--I mean I'm wearing lycra panties and have shaved my body...how can I myself too seriously?
Outward humour--you should see what you look like in lyrca panties!
Spent much of childhood in swimming pool...very comfortable.
Good strength and ability to gain muscle.
Not really giving a crap about my times against anyone else.
Blessed with natural affinity for ***.
Enjoy my time in water
Willing to help others to do well
Good cheerleader--wont let you sulk,
Try to find the silver lining in a bad swim experience.
No age group HS/UNI burnout.
Self centred at workout time.
Weaknesses:
Lazy kick.
No real age group swimming.
Baileys over ice after swimming on fridays...um it's not meant to be drunk like a shake.
Injuries.
Kryptonite.
Limited techinical knowledge.
No coach.
No team.
Backstroke.
Can get easily sucked into social loafing at the wall.
