Greetings:
I am 76, 300 lbs, no big health problems..................I have started to swim once again after 30 years or so with the goal of losing weight and to improve my overall health (Not to mention respect !)What started me was I said to myself,shXt, I am not going out like this!!
My background in swimming was as a lifeguard and basic swimming instructor...never raced...all 50 years ago.
I have started to swim in our condo pool which is 17 yards long, I do 52 laps freestyle in about 40 min.once a day.I enjoy the "workout", I enjoy the feeling of accomplishment and have a feeling of over all wellbeing and I am losing weight (Along with a 1500 cal diet and walking 2 miles each day)
Until I found this forum I had planned on increasing my lap count to 100 each day. I was a happy camper....I still am but........:)
After reading threads here and seeing some of the numbers and times I wonder if I am kidding myself ?
Any comments would be appreciated.
Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!!!!!
I know a guy who's pushing 80 and swims pretty regularly. His stroke is nothing special, he sometimes swims with paddles and fins, and he seems to compete just once a year - in the pool's "Down the Mississippi" swim in which swimmers log their laps for two weeks. More than once I've seen him log more than 4,000 yards in an afternoon ... I'd guess he worked up to those distances over a number of years ...
I know a guy who's pushing 80 and swims pretty regularly. His stroke is nothing special, he sometimes swims with paddles and fins, and he seems to compete just once a year - in the pool's "Down the Mississippi" swim in which swimmers log their laps for two weeks. More than once I've seen him log more than 4,000 yards in an afternoon ... I'd guess he worked up to those distances over a number of years ...
