Hey, solo swimmers! :wave: Welcome to the thread for all of us who train solo. Whether you train on your own due to a lack of a Masters team in your area (or for any other reason), this is our virtual locker room. Please post training tips that you think would be helpful, or anything else you would like to share with the rest of us. Have a rant? Go ahead and vent here! :rantonoff:
I'll start with a tip:
The most frustrating thing for me training solo is not having a coach on deck to evaluate my stroke and keep me on track, so I bought a waterproof camera and enlisted the help of my husband to periodically shoot video of all four strokes. Shooting underwater video became a knee/back buster, so I bought a camera mount and attached it to PVC pipe, so my husband could stand up straight to shoot underwater video. The camera gets dunked underwater, and he twists the pipe to pan the camera as I swim by.
Today, I bought a 2-pack of 12-inch "Gear Tie" reusable rubber twist ties (available at Home Depot), so I can tie the PVC pipe to the pool ladder (located in the corner of the pool) and shoot video myself. (If I angle the camera just right and keep it on wide angle, I can video me coming and going.)
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After each video session, I upload the videos to my desktop computer and compare my stroke to my favorite Go Swim stroke videos to see what I'm doing well (or not). I also post them on the Forums for feedback.
Ok, solo swimmers, what's your tip?
I have aspergers and like to swim alone but there are always other swimmers at the rec pool I used. The master's team in the area is about 15 miles away and two rec pools that do lap swimming are 3 to 5 miles away. There are three times from 6-8:00 am and then 10 to 3:00 pm and 6:30 to 8:00 P,pm. I semi-retired now and can go at different times but prefer the 10 to 3:00 p,m. During the weekends, Saturday and Sunday its 12:00 to 4:00 P.m. On sunday I usually swim at the apartment pool, saved some money. I swim 6 days a week if I can. I get ideas for workouts from online workouts-100 swimming workouts and another group of workouts posted by a Ruth I think. I changed some of these workouts for my needs.
That's a HUGE advantage of being a solo swimmer: We get to swim whenever we want to swim, and we don't have to work our schedules around a team workout.
I like to swim in the morning, but "morning" can mean jumping in the pool at 8:30 or 11:00, depending on when my husband and I (both retired) roll out of bed, or when we finish taking care of filling orders for Bruce's hobby business (he makes art glass jewelry and sells on Etsy). I love that flexibility!
There are so many great resources for workout ideas, but I have found the best right here on the USMS website and in the Forum threads! :applaud:
I have aspergers and like to swim alone but there are always other swimmers at the rec pool I used. The master's team in the area is about 15 miles away and two rec pools that do lap swimming are 3 to 5 miles away. There are three times from 6-8:00 am and then 10 to 3:00 pm and 6:30 to 8:00 P,pm. I semi-retired now and can go at different times but prefer the 10 to 3:00 p,m. During the weekends, Saturday and Sunday its 12:00 to 4:00 P.m. On sunday I usually swim at the apartment pool, saved some money. I swim 6 days a week if I can. I get ideas for workouts from online workouts-100 swimming workouts and another group of workouts posted by a Ruth I think. I changed some of these workouts for my needs.
That's a HUGE advantage of being a solo swimmer: We get to swim whenever we want to swim, and we don't have to work our schedules around a team workout.
I like to swim in the morning, but "morning" can mean jumping in the pool at 8:30 or 11:00, depending on when my husband and I (both retired) roll out of bed, or when we finish taking care of filling orders for Bruce's hobby business (he makes art glass jewelry and sells on Etsy). I love that flexibility!
There are so many great resources for workout ideas, but I have found the best right here on the USMS website and in the Forum threads! :applaud:
