How not to get bored swimming lap after lap without stop?
Former Member
Some of you swim like 3km or 10km without stop. It's good feat, but even when I swim for 200m I get bored, so I wonder how come you don't get bored immersing yourself underwater doing the same basic thing repeatedly for an hour or more? If I walk long distance I can still have views to look, but swimming in a 25m pool??
Like a lot of the previous posters, I am never bored by lap swimming. I guess I don't see each lap as exactly the same - there's always something different. (And I never ever ever swim for more than 500meters at a pop, even in a workout of 5,000 meters.) Either I'm noting how close I am to being warmed up, or I'm focusing on my stroke, or I'm thinking about some little thing going on with my body position or my breathing. Every lap is different and has something going on to engage me.
Though it seems counter-intuitive, focusing on the swimming more makes it less boring.
There are days though when I just go into "space-out" mode and I just count my strokes or spell out words or recite poems in my head or listen to my breath. WHen I was a kid in school, I would conjugate my latin verbs - the rhythmic chanting was calming and distracting.
I guess it's like anything else, how you feel about your laps is largely in your hands...if you think it's boring, it's boring. If you make it interesting, it's interesting..."there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so"
Like a lot of the previous posters, I am never bored by lap swimming. I guess I don't see each lap as exactly the same - there's always something different. (And I never ever ever swim for more than 500meters at a pop, even in a workout of 5,000 meters.) Either I'm noting how close I am to being warmed up, or I'm focusing on my stroke, or I'm thinking about some little thing going on with my body position or my breathing. Every lap is different and has something going on to engage me.
Though it seems counter-intuitive, focusing on the swimming more makes it less boring.
There are days though when I just go into "space-out" mode and I just count my strokes or spell out words or recite poems in my head or listen to my breath. WHen I was a kid in school, I would conjugate my latin verbs - the rhythmic chanting was calming and distracting.
I guess it's like anything else, how you feel about your laps is largely in your hands...if you think it's boring, it's boring. If you make it interesting, it's interesting..."there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so"
