I am 35 and in pretty decent shape. I ride 4-5000 miles a year and do endurance events (100 mile mt. bike races). Unfortunately, my Dr. just told me no more riding for 3 + months. I usually ride through the winter, well enough to stay in some sort of shape.
While I am not excited about droping $800 bucks to join the Y to use the pool I am kind of excited to try something new. My Dr. told me I can swim and I plan on using this to keep my cardio and tone up over the winter.
Problem is I have no idea where to start. From goggles, suit, to what to do in the pool other than swim. In cycling I always tell beginners any cycling is better than no cycling, I would guess this is true for swimming (at a beginner level).
I know how to swim and was on the swim team through grade school (yeah I know a long time ago but at least I know what its about). I have tried to read some of the posts here about training, but to be honest I just dont know the lingo.
Like most things I will probably get hooked on this and want to see what I can do with it. I would like to work up to doing 1-2 hours.
Thanks for the help.
Al
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Day 4 in the pool:
Wow is all I can say.
After 20 Laps of warming up. I put together a 20 lap set of pulls without stopping. I was so surprised how easy it was and how good i felt when I stopped. I put the floaty ( i dont know what they are called) up on top, took a few deep breaths and started to do my first 20 lap set of freestyle without stopping.
I am not sure how doing 3 or 4 the day before almost killed me, yet a day later I was able to knock out 20 in relative ease. By the time I was done with the 20 they were becoming laborsome, but wow 20 in a row.
I am very surprised at how fast this is escalating.
I did a total of 64 laps and would have gone longer but time ran out on me for this session.
Day 4 in the pool:
Wow is all I can say.
After 20 Laps of warming up. I put together a 20 lap set of pulls without stopping. I was so surprised how easy it was and how good i felt when I stopped. I put the floaty ( i dont know what they are called) up on top, took a few deep breaths and started to do my first 20 lap set of freestyle without stopping.
I am not sure how doing 3 or 4 the day before almost killed me, yet a day later I was able to knock out 20 in relative ease. By the time I was done with the 20 they were becoming laborsome, but wow 20 in a row.
I am very surprised at how fast this is escalating.
I did a total of 64 laps and would have gone longer but time ran out on me for this session.
