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. :)
At my speed, I hesitate to use the word "click." ;)
But one day, the masters coach suggested a change in my head position in the free, and the next 25 repeat was 3 seconds faster than the one I'd done just before that, and with the same or possibly less effort.
Also, in a mile open water swim I did several weeks after doing a 5 miler, I was really surprised how easy it felt compared to the same race a year earlier when my training was barely there and I struggled.
But some days, the best I can do no matter how great the effort seems abysmally slow--and then other days the same effort yields something I can even call "fast for me." Still, the worst day working out is better than a lot of other things! :) The post-workout endorphins apparently doen't care how fast I swim. Good thing too!
At my speed, I hesitate to use the word "click." ;)
But one day, the masters coach suggested a change in my head position in the free, and the next 25 repeat was 3 seconds faster than the one I'd done just before that, and with the same or possibly less effort.
Also, in a mile open water swim I did several weeks after doing a 5 miler, I was really surprised how easy it felt compared to the same race a year earlier when my training was barely there and I struggled.
But some days, the best I can do no matter how great the effort seems abysmally slow--and then other days the same effort yields something I can even call "fast for me." Still, the worst day working out is better than a lot of other things! :) The post-workout endorphins apparently doen't care how fast I swim. Good thing too!
