This is my second attempt at getting back into swimming after raising kids (20 years). Not that they left the house yet. But with more freedom I want to get back into swimming.
Last year I made an attempt and swam for a few weeks and then got distracted by work :( However, that hard part was setting a workout. The main problem was my lungs are not in shape as much as I would like. Where do I begin? Any suggestions.
On the previous attempt I was doing something like:
10X100 Free on 2 minute.
10x50 kick (mixed stroke) 10 second rest between
10x100 Free on 2 minute pulling
5X100 IM on 2 1/2 minute
5X100 breaststroke on 2 1/2 minute.
200 free cool down
This workout kicked my butt. How do I know if this is to much? I feel I am still lacking the longer distances, nor am I able to do them. Will this come in time?
Any advice would be great to have,
Thanks in advance.
I was out of breath a lot too at first. To compensate I would do an open turn now and again, or substitute a length or two of easy *** in the middle of a set, or do broken sets with short rests to recover. It will get better; part of it for me was the brain getting reprogrammed to accept that it would be without air for a certain period of time.
Overall non-localized hurting is generally good; specific pains are bad. Watch the shoulders. My left shoulder started hurting when I got intrigued by lowering my stroke count and started really reaching. I eventually found a comfortable long, front quadrant (don't want to open the TI worm can here, so I won't say it) stroke and have not had any more problems.
I have not competed yet. Maybe this fall, but it's been 27 years since I've been off the blocks.
The backstroke turns have changed. I'm working on them, but I doubt I'll choose a back event for my first meet. *** changed, too, and evidently still is. But those changes are part of what I alluded to in saying this site kept me interested. It's fun to work on a new back turn, or figure out when to try and work in a dolphin kick in ***.
I was out of breath a lot too at first. To compensate I would do an open turn now and again, or substitute a length or two of easy *** in the middle of a set, or do broken sets with short rests to recover. It will get better; part of it for me was the brain getting reprogrammed to accept that it would be without air for a certain period of time.
Overall non-localized hurting is generally good; specific pains are bad. Watch the shoulders. My left shoulder started hurting when I got intrigued by lowering my stroke count and started really reaching. I eventually found a comfortable long, front quadrant (don't want to open the TI worm can here, so I won't say it) stroke and have not had any more problems.
I have not competed yet. Maybe this fall, but it's been 27 years since I've been off the blocks.
The backstroke turns have changed. I'm working on them, but I doubt I'll choose a back event for my first meet. *** changed, too, and evidently still is. But those changes are part of what I alluded to in saying this site kept me interested. It's fun to work on a new back turn, or figure out when to try and work in a dolphin kick in ***.
