Yanti & Salty Mad Manatees PART 3: FULL POD (Page 68)

TriAya - 2012-07-23 4:04 PM

amd723 - 2012-07-24 4:55 AM

Learning to drive with the hips, and pull primarily with the lats but also back with the whole body as you rotate to the other side ... recruits so many of the big muscle groups to help. Much easier, more efficient, and ultimately much more powerful too.

Please explain - in the context of swimming - how to drive with your hips. I don't remember if that was covered in Shiela's book and I'm too lazy to look it up.

All good swimmers have either (mostly) a hip-driven freestyle or shoulder-driven. Shoulder is difficult--requires a lot more shoulder girdle flexibility and strength and more common amongst sprinters/short distance.

Less experienced swimmers tend to begin the stroke/initiate the catch primarily by just reaching their arm out. No no no no no. It initiates from the hip rotation. It's like reaching for something very high on a shelf ... you do just put your arm up, but you get the extra distance by turning your hip TOWARD the shelf.

Similarly, when you actually pull back, the power and motion should come primarily from the other hip rotating back to center line. You're not pulling your arm back; you're anchoring your arm in the water and pulling yourself forward with your whole body.

As long as I am on the whine-train today I'm going for it. Swimming is so complicated! 

By all means, wear a budgie smuggler. All the big frogs do.

Hahahahahahaha

It is. It has more in common with ballet than biking or running. Even more difficult because of the foreign medium. (No, I'm not talking about me ... I'm talking about water).

I'm a ballet drop out. Age 5, two practices in, I hung up the tights for good. Broke my dear mothers heart.

Heh. I'm a ballet and Brownies um ... kick-out.

So I'm a little lively and disruptive. I'm sure this information shocks you.

Swimming is more like pole-vaulting, then ... underwater, repeatedly.

Pole vaulting underwater is not to be confused with drilling in the hot tub

Actually it's funny, when I went down to visit my parents a while back my mom and I had a h2h. 

I was telling her that sometimes I wish that I would have taken some opportunities when I was younger. For instance, our HS track coach tried to get me to do XC and distance. It never occurred to me that it was because he thought I might be decent at it. I just though he was being nice or something.  Anyway, I had also told my mom that although I wished they would have pushed me a little, overall I am glad they let me make my own decisions. Since I have seen way too many of those overbearing parents making their kids do stuff they hate. 

She said, "Darn right you should be glad we didn't push you. You'd still be doing ballet!" 

Touche mom, touche! 

Jesus, you aren't making this any easier! You are making it harder, one might say. 

It's cool. I'm imagining you in a tutu and pointe shoes.

Now that sounds like a hot mess

Awesome afternoon for the manatees, although i'm just a voyeur apparently.

I have no idea what I do on my swim but my elbow has started to bother, slight pain, me on some of my harder/longer workouts, pool workouts get your mind out of the gutter, thoughts?  I think I need to make Sheila's book my next no idea about form I just go...

ebshot - 2012-07-23 6:16 AM

jobaxas - 2012-07-23 2:39 AM

ukweeble - 2012-07-23 1:30 AM

ebshot - 2012-07-23 1:36 AM I am exhausted.  I spent about 5 hours painting our shed.  Ugh.  The weather was perfect though, sunny and 70's.  I wanted to ride the trainer today but there is no way I am doing that now. 

I have a run on tap for tomorrow morning and it's my weekly weigh in day.  I hope to see the scale moving downward.

Good luck with the weigh in

I meant to say ditto but computer ran away!  I hate weighing in, haven't done so for ages, I just know if my jeans feel tight it's time to cut down, if not eat heartily!

Maybe I need to adopt your strategy...the scale wasn't too kind today.  Only down one pound this week but at least it's a loss.

I think I need diet help.  Usually I drop weight pretty fast but for some reason I am not this time.  I am counting my calories and upping my workouts.  Am I not eating enough?  Eating too many carbs?  My daily calories are in my logs and I usually eat about 50% carbs, 20% protein and 20% fat (yeah, I know that doesn't add up to 100, work with me here. ).  So, what do you think??

I find when I up my training I tend to plateau a bit quicker and it is because you're probably not eating enough.  Calories in vs calories out in theory is the way to go but I find upping the protein and cutting down the carbs makes that equation work quicker.  A pound down is actually a really steady rate of loss, slower it comes off slower it goes back on i find!

Stick with it.

jobaxas - 2012-07-23 5:33 PM

ebshot - 2012-07-23 6:16 AM

jobaxas - 2012-07-23 2:39 AM

ukweeble - 2012-07-23 1:30 AM

ebshot - 2012-07-23 1:36 AM I am exhausted.  I spent about 5 hours painting our shed.  Ugh.  The weather was perfect though, sunny and 70's.  I wanted to ride the trainer today but there is no way I am doing that now. 

I have a run on tap for tomorrow morning and it's my weekly weigh in day.  I hope to see the scale moving downward.

Good luck with the weigh in

I meant to say ditto but computer ran away!  I hate weighing in, haven't done so for ages, I just know if my jeans feel tight it's time to cut down, if not eat heartily!

Maybe I need to adopt your strategy...the scale wasn't too kind today.  Only down one pound this week but at least it's a loss.

I think I need diet help.  Usually I drop weight pretty fast but for some reason I am not this time.  I am counting my calories and upping my workouts.  Am I not eating enough?  Eating too many carbs?  My daily calories are in my logs and I usually eat about 50% carbs, 20% protein and 20% fat (yeah, I know that doesn't add up to 100, work with me here. ).  So, what do you think??

I find when I up my training I tend to plateau a bit quicker and it is because you're probably not eating enough.  Calories in vs calories out in theory is the way to go but I find upping the protein and cutting down the carbs makes that equation work quicker.  A pound down is actually a really steady rate of loss, slower it comes off slower it goes back on i find!

Stick with it.

Yes, excellent advice. I also find it better to try and get the majority of your carbs from a wide variety of vegetables rather than processed pasta. 

I sub in veggies for a lot of stuff like spaghetti squash instead of pasta noodles. 

Swim squad was evil - truly torturous!

FINS
200M FREE
200M (100 CATCH UP 2 SCULLS, 100 OTTER NO KICK)
200M FIST CATCH UP
200M (100M LEFT ARM BREATHE EVERY 3RD STROKE, OPP ARM BY SIDE, 100M RIGHT ARM DITTO)
200M (100M BACKSTROKE, 100 OTTER NO KICK)

NO FINS
4 SETS OF THE BELOW

1.300M FREESTYLE
2.4X25M (BAND SURVIVAL) - basically legs in bondage and go hell for leather to the end of the pool!
3.50m KICK BOARD

I missed the fourth set of the Band Survival.

Finish was 150m pull buoy breathe every 6 (missed this)
50m cool down (missed this)

So at the end I had done 2.7km - the Band Survival just about finished me, bring back the fly!

Up and on the drainer at 5am today - think I was running a bit of a fever with my cold but sweated it out nicely.  Feel better for the 45mins of hell on wheels!  I figured if I do these workouts in the morning or lunchtime for running it just seems easier for me, if I put off until the evening I can ALWAYs find an excuse not to go!  Also means tonight I'm free to do spellings homework with Artemis!  Thought we'd make up some poems with the words today!

She won two awards at school yesterday for excellence in Art and Italian - so proud.   Here she is on the left with her BFF Willow.

(Artemis and willow.jpg)

I made it through one 8-week session. I didn't like it because it made me sweat.  If you had seen me at boot camp tonight...oh, how things have changed.  Really HTBU - hardened the Brie up. (but isn't Brie supposed to be soft??? It was my argument for many years, probably age 5 to 21)

THat is fantastic! She is adorable.  I love seeing kids excited about school

Name a dance, any dance.  I did it.  Ballet, jazz, tap, gymnastics, highland dancing, baton twirling.  Frilly socks, sequined outfits, vaseline on the teeth, the works.  Quit it all as soon as I could.