Hello,
I recently took up swimming (October) @ age 43 and have never done much else than splash around in a pool.
I trained myself using Total Immersion (I have been looking at the forums here and I suspsect I just threw a hand grenade into this thread :) )
As with other skills I have learned, I feel one has to develop their own form and style - so I am not following TI by the book....
Anyway, this is the first time I have seen myself swimming and I see some errors:
a. rolling too far to breath or simply turning my head to breathe
b. head position
c. legs uselessly kicking around..
video of me swimming:
link.
any pointers on how to
a. work my kick into my stroke better.
b. work on body roll.
Anyway, I have to say I LOVE swimming. to me its like mediation, excercise, pilates, dance, and flying all in one.
I wish i had discovered it sooner, but better late then never.
Anyway, I welcome your feedback.
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silly reason they always go with alternate side breathing...
And please pick a side for your breathing - that's why you run out of air...
Hi, all the other swim books i have read - Janet Evans, for example, all recommend alternate breathing, or at the very least swim equal amounts on both sides. I know sprinters tend to breath on one side, but from what i understand they don't train that way. I read a biography of a couple of swimmers - Natalie Couglain had developed an out of alignment body from single side breathing and when she alternated she made a great improvments .
even if i do single side, I still have to breath every stroke when i start to run out of air, so i supsect its more of a body position thing, since it doesn't happen with a pull buoy
Perhaps its different fro different body types and temperaments.
geochuck why?
pwbrundage i found that fins and pull buoys soon became addictive so i recently reduced them to about 10% of my work out. I did find fins very helpful for getting my breathing and body roll down - because i was able to maintain a decent speed.
I still use them for dolphin kicking facing up across the pool because I can't do it otherwise.
silly reason they always go with alternate side breathing...
And please pick a side for your breathing - that's why you run out of air...
Hi, all the other swim books i have read - Janet Evans, for example, all recommend alternate breathing, or at the very least swim equal amounts on both sides. I know sprinters tend to breath on one side, but from what i understand they don't train that way. I read a biography of a couple of swimmers - Natalie Couglain had developed an out of alignment body from single side breathing and when she alternated she made a great improvments .
even if i do single side, I still have to breath every stroke when i start to run out of air, so i supsect its more of a body position thing, since it doesn't happen with a pull buoy
Perhaps its different fro different body types and temperaments.
geochuck why?
pwbrundage i found that fins and pull buoys soon became addictive so i recently reduced them to about 10% of my work out. I did find fins very helpful for getting my breathing and body roll down - because i was able to maintain a decent speed.
I still use them for dolphin kicking facing up across the pool because I can't do it otherwise.
