Have you all had a day when you suddenly had a substantial breakthrough in learning to swim better? A day on which your swimming suddenly "clicked", so instead of trying hard to correct this or that detail of swimming better as you had been doing each day (how to kick, pull, breath, etc.), all of a sudden, you swam with all those details corrected, without effort, and without much thought about it. Months (and perhaps years) of thinking, practice, seem to be paying off altogether on that one day. I made some nice progress yesterday and today and feel great. My swim just suddenly became so much more relaxed and I was much more buoyant without effort. and breathing, which I had tried to improve, poses little problem now--and I wasn't even thinking about it. :D
I hope the progress will stay with me and I won't forget how to swim the way I did. :cool: I'm still a beginner. I will be really interested to hear you story. :)
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I feel like I've had some breakthroughs in the last couple workouts. Since I'm getting ready for a 5K OW swim next weekend I had gradually been increasing my yardage, and intensity, in my workouts. I did 6250 SCY on Saturday and 7200 yesterday and I'm finally start to feel my freestyle coming back to me. I had been out of the pool for 15 years until August '08. Doing a lot of distance has given the time and opportunity to really think and work on my stroke. I come from the 80's-90's so there have been some changes to the stroke since I'm trying to learn (head down). Also doing repeat 100's breathing only to the weak side has really helped me out too....not sure why, but it does.
Little things like this is what keeps you going, even when you don't feel like hitting the pool, or you are sore/tired, etc. Its a little like Christmas morning when you start getting these little breakthroughs!:applaud:
I feel like I've had some breakthroughs in the last couple workouts. Since I'm getting ready for a 5K OW swim next weekend I had gradually been increasing my yardage, and intensity, in my workouts. I did 6250 SCY on Saturday and 7200 yesterday and I'm finally start to feel my freestyle coming back to me. I had been out of the pool for 15 years until August '08. Doing a lot of distance has given the time and opportunity to really think and work on my stroke. I come from the 80's-90's so there have been some changes to the stroke since I'm trying to learn (head down). Also doing repeat 100's breathing only to the weak side has really helped me out too....not sure why, but it does.
Little things like this is what keeps you going, even when you don't feel like hitting the pool, or you are sore/tired, etc. Its a little like Christmas morning when you start getting these little breakthroughs!:applaud:
