Solo Swimmers

Uhhh, no, far from it! :cane:Aqua Dog says people should not use perfume in the pool, because it is a killer for those with allergies, and it's bad for the pool water! :agree: What happened to people taking a shower Before they get in the pool? I notice more and more people, especially the water aerobics folks, don't bother to even rinse off. Yuck.

The Videos are good, not certain how well your strokes are. I see many adults doing fin swims for the strokes and their is a special type of fins for breaststroke. You might try that. ther. Thanks. I've got a pair of the breaststroke fins. I gave them up when I found I couldn't do it with the fins on ei

True newbie here. If you didn't learn to swim as a child, you were older (masters' age + ) what do you do? I watch some videos on Youtube and that's helped. I have looked at a few books. I'm doing some strength training but I have leg problems so just doing the best I can on that. What are tips for people who have done some meets but still don't know everything? Its really hard when you're the only one there. Thanks. The Videos are good, not certain how well your strokes are. I see many adults doing fin swims for the strokes and their is a special type of fins for breaststroke. You might try that.

The Videos are good, not certain how well your strokes are. I see many adults doing fin swims for the strokes and their is a special type of fins for breaststroke. You might try that. 100swimmingworkouts.com/I would try both the beginning and intermidate, you know the strokes so in the beginning changed from free to fly or back or *** sometimes. Most lap swimmers take 15 to 25 seconds to do a 25 yard freestyle, if there is no pace clock this can help you. Seeing other swimmers swim about 20 yards, means that is closed to a 10 second or 15 second interval.

100swimmingworkouts.com/I would try both the beginning and intermidate, you know the strokes so in the beginning changed from free to fly or back or *** sometimes. Most lap swimmers take 15 to 25 seconds to do a 25 yard freestyle, if there is no pace clock this can help you. Seeing other swimmers swim about 20 yards, means that is closed to a 10 second or 15 second interval. ruthkazez.com/.../Another workout source, the less yardage workouts are 2,000 to 2,500 yards. This is the one I use. I only do two drills, breaststroke pull and fly kick and one arm fly on both sides. If you want to know drills for freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke or butterfly., you tube has examples.

Yesterday I was doing laps at the LA Fitness pool. Shower Cap and Clueless, got into my lane. Clueless started doggy paddling up the middle. It was the easy access lane, which I used to save my shoulder, and I knew they probably needed the steps. I said to Clueless, what are you doing? I'm trying to get some exercise. Clueless apologized and I offered to share the lane, but she ducked under the ropes to the middle. Shower Cap couldn't, so she stood up against the ropes chatting with Clueless while I stuck to one side of the lane. Shower Cap had on so much perfume, that stuff that's sickly sweet, and it gave me a headache. I said something to the lifeguard about perfume users not taking a shower, and he just shrugged. I swear they have the worst lifeguards at LA Fitness. He's always on his cell phone, anyway. You could bonk your head and knock yourself out and he wouldn't notice. I said something to a guy at the front office about maybe posting rules that include taking a shower before using the pool. We'll see if they do anything about it.

Is it possible to get photos and put the problems in writing to management? Even their lawyers? That would not fly well anywhere I go.

Here is the article I wrote for all of you Solo Swimmers: www.swimspire.com/.../ :D

Well hi everyone, I have Elaine to thank for leading me here! I got a swim email, and happened to click on a link which as a solo swimmer I thought might help! Would love to take part in some competitive swims but no chance being where I am (Saudi Arabia) so I swim mainly on my own...which I don't mind, it's been nearly 10 years since I last swam and trained at my local triathlon club in the UK, I hardly ever see anyone else in the pools here...we have 4 outdoor pools, one 25 metre that the swim team. 4 times a week , which isn't nice to use after them as it's very murky! So I stick to the one near our villa which is 22 metres. There is only me in the pool normally, unless my husband joins me and complains if I ask him to do a few more laps!! Motivation is my big think, even though I'm a swim teacher and fitness instructor, this place is fantastic and so awful all at the same time as we have pools, gyms and a field/ sand track here and all free....but so easy to get in the mindset of "I'll do it tomorrow" , plus I had a totally hysterectomy in May, so getting back to fitness is always a challenge ! Plus the fact that I no longer want to be here, as we will be leaving to live in France in couple of years when our own fitness facility is up and running. As a fitness instructor I know the negative thoughts need to change to positive, otherwise it's just going to get harder'! i have also been asked to help coach the under 7's in the swim team ....even though I'm not a coach I'm a teacher so I'm struggling with should I or shouldn't I ! It would be good experience ! Anyway bit of a long winded HI....just want to get back to my regular solo swimming, I started back last week....slowly...only doing 600m as my husband wanted to come too...and he isn't a great swimmer so didn't want to push him to do what I would normally do, and we keep it to drills so he doesn't give up! Now I've had 4 days off and struggling to motivate myself to carry on!!!!

So glad for everyone here and thankful for Elaine being a cheerleader and willing to share.