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re: Swimmers and/or Triathletes...
Posted on 8/14/21 at 4:59 pm to BlackAdam
Posted on 8/14/21 at 4:59 pm to BlackAdam
Well, I bumped up the super sprint Triathlon and completed it today. Not long after I posted this, my swimming just began to click a bit more and I just decided to go after it.
This was an open water swim (lake) of like 240 yards. It was actually my first open water swim and first tri. I had difficulty establishing a stroke in the beginning being around that many people. I was swimming into feet or others into my side. I felt like I had to pull my head out of the water to see the buoys which disrupted my stroke. On the back stretch, I took a breathe full of water (splash) that took me a good 30 secs to recover from and the life guards looked at me wondering if they would need to save my life. Few coughs later and I got it going; the last 1/3 of the swim I had some room and could get going with an improve stroke. Takeaway: I need to swim more in open water and without tracking.
This was an open water swim (lake) of like 240 yards. It was actually my first open water swim and first tri. I had difficulty establishing a stroke in the beginning being around that many people. I was swimming into feet or others into my side. I felt like I had to pull my head out of the water to see the buoys which disrupted my stroke. On the back stretch, I took a breathe full of water (splash) that took me a good 30 secs to recover from and the life guards looked at me wondering if they would need to save my life. Few coughs later and I got it going; the last 1/3 of the swim I had some room and could get going with an improve stroke. Takeaway: I need to swim more in open water and without tracking.
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Posted on 8/16/21 at 1:27 pm to Tiger in Gatorland
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Takeaway: I need to swim more in open water and without tracking.
What do you mean "without tracking"? You will always need to learn how to sight buoys. Unless you know you are swimming on the toes of a guy/gal who is going to stay on track. Otherwise practice swimming in the pool and taking sighting strokes where you lift your head up to see the end of the lane. About 2 per length of the pool is likely good enough. You'll get comfortable doing it "smoothly" and not so much of a hinderance to your stroke. But it is something that has to be practiced in regards to open water swimming. You can get off course fast.
Posted on 8/16/21 at 3:28 pm to Jon A thon
Yea I rely on the stripes at the bottom of the pool. I’ll try what you said with sighting the mark a couple times per pool length.
Posted on 8/19/21 at 10:52 am to Tiger in Gatorland
That's awesome you did so well. Congrats.
My honest advice for anyone that would be starting out would be to get in the pool as many days as possible each week. You don't have to make it a hard workout, it could be your warm up or cool down for whatever else you are going to do at the gym that day. The reason for this is that it is a completely different environment that your body must adapt to, swimming in the pool 4 days for 15 minutes each will serve you MUCH better that 1 day for an hour or 2 days for 30 minutes (at least in your first 3-6 months). I kind of think of swimming in the initial phases as training a new dog. You don't do one big training session a day, instead you do multiple small trainings through out the day. Truly adapting to the water is very much the same. Once you are adapted well and can swim 300-400 yards without stopping that is when you can start implementing the longer workouts to get endurance. In the beginning you are really learning technique and efficiency, not endurance.
My honest advice for anyone that would be starting out would be to get in the pool as many days as possible each week. You don't have to make it a hard workout, it could be your warm up or cool down for whatever else you are going to do at the gym that day. The reason for this is that it is a completely different environment that your body must adapt to, swimming in the pool 4 days for 15 minutes each will serve you MUCH better that 1 day for an hour or 2 days for 30 minutes (at least in your first 3-6 months). I kind of think of swimming in the initial phases as training a new dog. You don't do one big training session a day, instead you do multiple small trainings through out the day. Truly adapting to the water is very much the same. Once you are adapted well and can swim 300-400 yards without stopping that is when you can start implementing the longer workouts to get endurance. In the beginning you are really learning technique and efficiency, not endurance.
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