Any lap swimmers out there?

[Fitswimmer]

I do lap swimming for exercise-hence the user name-so I thought I'd check over here to see if any other DIS'ers are water junkies!

[smwf71]

I swim with masters swim team twice a week - would love to do more, but have kids and no childcare when swimming is available. But, I'll be your water junkie!

[Fitswimmer]

I'm working up to being able to join our Master's group. I'm still a bit intimidated by it. What's your typical workout look like?

[Tiger Lily 03]

I swim for XT but am not able to manage a long haul. I see a few folks at our gym that seem to go on forever.
:worship:

Our ortho doc sure loves it when he hears people are swimming for exercise.

[Fitswimmer]

I swim for XT but am not able to manage a long haul. I see a few folks at our gym that seem to go on forever.
:worship:

Our ortho doc sure loves it when he hears people are swimming for exercise.

That's how I got into it. I tried the Couch to 5k and ended up with tendonitis in my right ankle. Ortho and phys therapist said to swim instead.

[perfectmatch300]

I'm a lap swimmer, too. That said, I must confess that most of my workouts lately have not been swimming. Our pool got so hot and so crowded with noodles that I kind of got away from it & just started doing other things. I'm feeling the need to get back in the pool again lately, though, even if I have to go indoors for a while. I really do prefer our outdoor pool because it is 25 meters so I get a good swim in each lap. The indoor pool is much shorter so it's more of push off & turn with a few strokes in between than a good swim.

Smwf71, I'd be interested in hearing about your masters team workout, too. I haven't swam competetively since college, and stopped teaching and coaching when I went back to school for my masters during the summers a few years later.

While I was swimming regularly outdoors I was doing 1000 or 1500 meters of lap swimming, depending on how ambitious I was feeling and how crowded the pool was. I usually split my laps between free & breast stroke so I'm using different muscles.

[Fitswimmer]

I'm a lap swimmer, too. That said, I must confess that most of my workouts lately have not been swimming. Our pool got so hot and so crowded with noodles that I kind of got away from it & just started doing other things. I'm feeling the need to get back in the pool again lately, though, even if I have to go indoors for a while. I really do prefer our outdoor pool because it is 25 meters so I get a good swim in each lap. The indoor pool is much shorter so it's more of push off & turn with a few strokes in between than a good swim.

Smwf71, I'd be interested in hearing about your masters team workout, too. I haven't swam competetively since college, and stopped teaching and coaching when I went back to school for my masters during the summers a few years later.

While I was swimming regularly outdoors I was doing 1000 or 1500 meters of lap swimming, depending on how ambitious I was feeling and how crowded the pool was. I usually split my laps between free & breast stroke so I'm using different muscles.

I've got myself worked up to doing a mile with each workout. As I said-I haven't worked up the nerve to join Master's yet, but I did make up a workout for myself. It's 1700 meters and I can get that done in the morning before work. Since I'm up here in the cold northeast, my only option is the Y pool. If I don't get there at 5:30 am, there's really no other time for lap swimming-which is a real drawback.

300 swim warm up
200 kick
200 pull
300 swim-fast
200 kick
200 pull
300 swim-cool down

[sewer]

Me too! Wrestling left everything a mess, and running everyday finished the rest off.

[Hillbeans]

I do lap swimming for exercise-hence the user name-so I thought I'd check over here to see if any other DIS'ers are water junkies!

HI Fitswimmer - I think I can officially post on this thread now. I have been doing lap swim now for the past 4 weeks, and am going to keep it up as long as I can. Luckilly I am off 2 days during the week (T, Th) and my gym has a wonderful pool and babysitting. I'm going to try and add in another day to make it 3x a week.

I am up to 32 laps now, so that's 800 meters. I'm slowly building my endurance and hope to be up over 1000 in the next week or two. I like how you have your program written out, i'm hoping to do something like that. My strongest strokes are Free and Back, and I often throw in a few laps of Breast (no Fly).

What is your program like?

[Fitswimmer]

HI Fitswimmer - I think I can officially post on this thread now. I have been doing lap swim now for the past 4 weeks, and am going to keep it up as long as I can. Luckilly I am off 2 days during the week (T, Th) and my gym has a wonderful pool and babysitting. I'm going to try and add in another day to make it 3x a week.

I am up to 32 laps now, so that's 800 meters. I'm slowly building my endurance and hope to be up over 1000 in the next week or two. I like how you have your program written out, i'm hoping to do something like that. My strongest strokes are Free and Back, and I often throw in a few laps of Breast (no Fly).

What is your program like?

I stick with Freestyle and play with the speed. I have to swim in the morning before work. We often have 3 or 4 people in a lane so I tend to vary the speed of my laps in order to work around them. I'm keeping myself from getting frustrated and working intervals in at the same time!

[smileyk8]

Last year i swam a lot to rehab my foot after surgery. I built up to swim a 5000m charity swim (i like challenges) and found the best thing in the world for keeping me in the pool was a waterproof ipod case. I got so bored otherwise. Have to admit i haven't swum properly since then but am so impressed when i see real lap swimmers- you guys always look so good!!!!

[tiberius]

I am a fairly new lap swimmer. or at least am trying to build up to being one. I presently swim 1,000 yards 3 days a week freestyle and breaststroke and would like to build up more, but right now I have to take an occasional short rest or go slower to rest in the middle of the swim.