Blog Talk
Blog Talk is a thread to recoginize, discuss, share, stuff happening in the USMS blogs, here on the general forums. Please point out certain sets, certain swims, & meet performances. Rather than have the blogs languish in obscurity.
Here's a few blogs if you're interested in:
sprinting on low yardage check out The Jazz Hands Brass Band's Fast-Twitch Freak-Out by Jazz Hands
a fast chatty female who often trains alone there's the
The FAF AFAP Digest by The Fortress
a middle distance workhorse, Masters's swimming mag's cover boy, who has a true work ethic and amazing swims in workout there's
Chris' training journal and thoughts by Chris Stevenson
an excellent mid distance traveling exec there's
Of Swimming Bondage by pwbrundage
looks like there's 59 blogs
let's talk about em
start one of your own
keep adding threads, it's a handy resourse where you can look back at previous workouts.
there's the list
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Rather than have the blogs languish in obscurity.
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a fast chatty female who often trains alone there's the
The FAF AFAP Digest by The Fortress
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it's a handy resourse where you can look back at previous workouts.
Love the "fast chatty female" descriptor.:rofl: Certainly Fort's blog gets as much traffic as even the most popular forum threads.
As far as workouts, I should point out one cool thing about the blogs that may be good for people working out on their own, or coaches looking for ideas.
On the top menu (above), go Blogs --> Blog List. Then on the side categories, click on "Swim Workouts." You get a list of all the posts by bloggers who have bothered to categorize the post as a workout. There are other "universal" categories but that one seems the most useful to me.
A side message to bloggers: consider categorizing your posts for organizational purposes. You can also create personal categories. For example, I have created one specifically for "test set" days and another for "broken mile" days so I can easily look up my past performances on those types of workouts. Makes it useful to track progress...or lack thereof... :)
(Honestly, I kind of like the "obsurity" aspect though...I don't think I'd ever post my workouts, or performances in them or in meets, on a forum thread but the blog posts require a little more work to find, so I know -- or hope -- that only interested parties wade thru my own junk...)
Rather than have the blogs languish in obscurity.
....
a fast chatty female who often trains alone there's the
The FAF AFAP Digest by The Fortress
...
it's a handy resourse where you can look back at previous workouts.
Love the "fast chatty female" descriptor.:rofl: Certainly Fort's blog gets as much traffic as even the most popular forum threads.
As far as workouts, I should point out one cool thing about the blogs that may be good for people working out on their own, or coaches looking for ideas.
On the top menu (above), go Blogs --> Blog List. Then on the side categories, click on "Swim Workouts." You get a list of all the posts by bloggers who have bothered to categorize the post as a workout. There are other "universal" categories but that one seems the most useful to me.
A side message to bloggers: consider categorizing your posts for organizational purposes. You can also create personal categories. For example, I have created one specifically for "test set" days and another for "broken mile" days so I can easily look up my past performances on those types of workouts. Makes it useful to track progress...or lack thereof... :)
(Honestly, I kind of like the "obsurity" aspect though...I don't think I'd ever post my workouts, or performances in them or in meets, on a forum thread but the blog posts require a little more work to find, so I know -- or hope -- that only interested parties wade thru my own junk...)
