Any advice for the problem of taking a really long time to feel smooth, efficient and easy in the water? I swim 2 miles freestyle 3x/week. It always takes about an hour, but I've noticed that it's fully about 1/2 way or more into it before I notice it's easy gliding and I'm not thinking about it anymore. The speed or the technique isn't different it just seems like a long time before things click.
Thanks for your suggestions!
Maryann
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Thanks for the suggestions, etrain. I've been swimming the laps freestyle without stopping or varying the pace much. Last week I did 2.5 miles for the first time, but I like the locomotion idea & will give it a try.
I just swim for fitness & never been on a team or competed (really only learned proper strokes in a phys ed class long ago in college.) I'm 39 and swim 3 or 4x/week and do not have much of a competitive streak...just learned to flip turn last summer from the kids' swim coach!
I was contemplating working hard alone this summer to maybe join our local masters group for motivation and to meet other swimmers this fall. I'm not sure whether masters is for a beginner like me, however; gotta confess most of these posts look a bit like a foreign language. Also I never learned butterfly.
In the 1000 kick/drill/swim set, how does that go exactly?
Maryann
Thanks for the suggestions, etrain. I've been swimming the laps freestyle without stopping or varying the pace much. Last week I did 2.5 miles for the first time, but I like the locomotion idea & will give it a try.
I just swim for fitness & never been on a team or competed (really only learned proper strokes in a phys ed class long ago in college.) I'm 39 and swim 3 or 4x/week and do not have much of a competitive streak...just learned to flip turn last summer from the kids' swim coach!
I was contemplating working hard alone this summer to maybe join our local masters group for motivation and to meet other swimmers this fall. I'm not sure whether masters is for a beginner like me, however; gotta confess most of these posts look a bit like a foreign language. Also I never learned butterfly.
In the 1000 kick/drill/swim set, how does that go exactly?
Maryann
