The House of Husar

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.