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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yeah i am really happy with the progress. It is really good. If i was doing more specific speed work outs I would be faster by now but that is not my over all goal. My goal is pure base fitness to distance/time is more important to me.
Flip turns:
Well I can do them, in my own way. I have been practicing the "correct" way to do them, but they are coming along slowly as I will only try them if I have the lane to my self because I can certainly veer off line a bit on them. If i did them my way (totally wrong) I can keep them straighter. The correct way really gets water in my nose so I think that for the most part keeps me from trying them more often. I know a crappy reason but hey its all i got
yeah i am really happy with the progress. It is really good. If i was doing more specific speed work outs I would be faster by now but that is not my over all goal. My goal is pure base fitness to distance/time is more important to me.
Flip turns:
Well I can do them, in my own way. I have been practicing the "correct" way to do them, but they are coming along slowly as I will only try them if I have the lane to my self because I can certainly veer off line a bit on them. If i did them my way (totally wrong) I can keep them straighter. The correct way really gets water in my nose so I think that for the most part keeps me from trying them more often. I know a crappy reason but hey its all i got
