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Beginner's 1st week training!
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 2005-04-08 11:08 AM |
New user 9 Ashford |  Subject: Beginner's 1st week training!Well, i've nearly completed the 1st week of my training, i am finding the swimming very difficult, however i am enjoying it. The pool at my gym is 20metres long, at present i am concentrating on trying to front crawl ( Phew! never realised just how difficult this is, have swallowed more water than is in the pool i think!, My strategy at present is keeping the times as per my training log, but i am having to stop frequently due to either breathing technique, other people in the way or just sheer tiredness. Determined to carry on. Hopefully i will get more confidence.  |
| 2005-04-08 12:29 PM in reply to: #139946 |
Not a Coach 11473    Media, PA | Subject: RE: Beginner's 1st week training! Welcome! Stick with the swimming--it just takes time. Try to find some drills or, better, some coaching--swimming requires a lot of technique. |
| 2005-04-08 2:14 PM in reply to: #139946 |
Extreme Veteran 444 Thunder Bay, Ontario | Subject: RE: Beginner's 1st week training! Welcome to BT, everyone's in agreement on this site, keep practicing |
| 2005-04-08 4:09 PM in reply to: #139946 |
Member 14 ...where the streets have no name | Subject: RE: Beginner's 1st week training! I am in my first week as well. In using the 2x and today was 80 min in the bike (I fell like a pain somewhere...). Which program are you following? good luck |
| 2005-04-08 4:17 PM in reply to: #139946 |
COURT JESTER 12230 ROCKFORD, IL | Subject: RE: Beginner's 1st week training! with our 3 month old starting day care on Monday I came up with a training program and WILL start it on monday and it works around the days I can get gym time/swim time and the mornings I have to do the dropping off.  250lbs now at about 30% Bodyfat.....220lbs and 15% bodyfat HERE I COME !!!!!  |
| 2005-04-08 10:38 PM in reply to: #139946 |
Champion 6627 Rochester Hills, Michigan Gold member | Subject: RE: Beginner's 1st week training! Johnyd...welcome to the site! You got it, swimming is the toughest to get used to...but proportionally, it gets easier cause it's the event that takes the least time! And they let you run it first, to boot. Athena hit it right on the head...time in the pool is king, and BT has great people & resources to help you hone your technique as you get further into it. Everyone swallows water when they start swimming...And no matter how much water you swallow, I'd bet a) they'll replace it in the pool, and b) somehow, you won't keep it in you. Just guesses...but dont' sweat it unless it starts to detract from your workout. But for now, welcome...and good luck with the training. |
| 2005-04-09 3:50 AM in reply to: #140189 |
| New user 9 Ashford | Subject: RE: Beginner's 1st week training! Thanks Alex, yes the 2x program seems a good starting block. Having my first rest day today since last Sunday, All the best to you. |
| 2005-04-09 3:54 AM in reply to: #140319 |
| New user 9 Ashford | Subject: RE: Beginner's 1st week training! Hi Rick, thanks for your comments, yep i will need to be patient with the swimming, The other thing is my gym only has a 20metre pool, and at present i keep losing count of the distance. Oh well early days Kindest |
| 2005-04-09 3:59 AM in reply to: #140197 |
| New user 9 Ashford | Subject: RE: Beginner's 1st week training! Hi Ty, my weight is 120.4 kg body fat 27% ( huge love handles!! ) i am trying the 2X beginners plan. Good luck with your training. Kindest |
| 2005-04-09 6:46 AM in reply to: #139946 |
Master 1557 Maine | Subject: RE: Beginner's 1st week training! Johnyd - welcome to BT! Others have said it too, but the swim will come along pretty quickly with practice. Hang around the site long enough and you will hear frequent stories from people who just started swimming a few months ago, and now are going distances they never thought possible. I'm one of them - started in November of last year, and could barely go a lap of a 20 yard pool without a break, and now I'm doing 1000 yards continuously and still increasing. Keep at it, it will come, and it feels great as it happens! |
| 2005-04-09 10:18 AM in reply to: #140361 |
| New user 9 Ashford | Subject: RE: Beginner's 1st week training! Hi Rob, Many thanks for the comments, i look forward to that day when i can swim without swallowing gallons of water and stopping for various reasons. Good luck to you Kindest |
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