Swimming Workout
With all the exciting swimming happening wit the Olympics I thought I would take on the challenge of a swimming workout for the next few weeks. Not knowing where to start I decided to email someone that still swims and was a good high school swimmer. I send Kurt G. out in San Diego an email and asked him for a workout to start me swimming. Kurt was a pretty good high school swimmer and I think still swims for fitness. Here is what Kurt recommended.
400 warm up
4 x 200 alternate strokes
10 x 100 free (begin easy and get faster on each one with the same amount of rest)
200 cool down
Seems pretty straight forward. Today was a good day to start so Noah and I jumped on the bikes and headed to the gym. I changed and jumped into the pool to get started. I picked up some goggles today so I got those adjusted and started right in.
I did the warm up, or what I thought as the warm up. I assumed the pool was 50 meters and it was only 25 meters. So I only did the following for my workout.
200 warm up
100 free
100 breast
100 back
100 free
10 x 50 free
50 cool down with kickboard.
I tell you what. Swimming is hard! I only did half the workout so I need to work up to what Kurt recommended. Breathing is the hardest part by far. I did not have any problem doing the different strokes. I found myself holding my breath and then exhaling out and in again with each breath. That was killing me. I could only do 50 meters at a time then needing to catch my breath. I got a little better at the end with my breathing. When I took my breath I would then exhale a little with each stroke then up gain to take another gulp of air. But still only 50 meters before I was sucking air.
Swimming is a good full body workout and I feel pretty beat tonight. I don’t think I will be sore so going again will not be a problem. The plan is to swim at least 3 days a week or more over the next couple of months. I will post results when I can improve on the workout Kurt give me.
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I remember back at UWMC taking a swimming class. There was 3 levels for the course into/inter/teaching for your teaching cert. I had taken the intermediate level thinking I would be able to handle it on the teachers recommendation. The first day we had to take a test to see our level of fitness. Being some what of an athlete I was thinking i would do well. I was second in my class doing something like 19 laps in 20 or was it 30 minutes I cant remember how long it was. I felt like I had done well but I was rated as a poor swimmer. I was shocked! I then preceded to workout for the next 6 or 7 weeks and only increased by 4 and showed very little increase and still to this day I don’t think I moved up. I know what you mean on how hard swimming is. BEST OF LUCK!!!
Good story Cory. Looking forward to riding one dirt when you get down here.
How’s it going fish? Any faster?
Look for an update on last night’s expedition soon.