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Now that I am back in the pool, my body is slowly starting to remember what it feels like to swim. The motions to make, where my forehead is supposed to be, how it feels to keep my bum up and slightly out of the water in order to align my balance properly. How it feels to warm up after a couple of laps, get through a gruesome kick and pull session, and then slide back into a freestyle for a couple more 200's. Not only choosing to do, but knowing to do, a 500 lenght and loving every minute of it.
Ahhhhh. I love when you start to feel the the blood pumping through your arms with each stroke, the slight tingle in your lungs eith each inhalation, even the pressure on my nose from the goggles.
Swimming is so different from running. I think it will take some more time for me to understand how they complement each other. I mean, besides from the obvious (running: lot's of pounding on joints and muscles, swimming: no pounding, all is fluid). I mean in terms of mental aspects. Will I feel confident that kicking is helping my leg muscles? Why do I feel like, despite ALL the leg muscles I have, that my kicking is still so spotty in the water? You'd think that my kicks would be so powerful.
Hmm. It's funny how despite no real dedication to arm workouts, my arms feel stronger then ever in the pool, and my legs feel totally week.
I think that, if I'm going to be a form junkie, I'm going to need to start doing flip turns again. Ugh. I hate those suckers. But...swimmers need to do them.
Okay, next time I'm in the pool (probably Saturday; Friday will be a run since I've got a business thing tonight) I'm going to try the ol' flipturns again. Yikes. Scary!
Ahhhhh. I love when you start to feel the the blood pumping through your arms with each stroke, the slight tingle in your lungs eith each inhalation, even the pressure on my nose from the goggles.
Swimming is so different from running. I think it will take some more time for me to understand how they complement each other. I mean, besides from the obvious (running: lot's of pounding on joints and muscles, swimming: no pounding, all is fluid). I mean in terms of mental aspects. Will I feel confident that kicking is helping my leg muscles? Why do I feel like, despite ALL the leg muscles I have, that my kicking is still so spotty in the water? You'd think that my kicks would be so powerful.
Hmm. It's funny how despite no real dedication to arm workouts, my arms feel stronger then ever in the pool, and my legs feel totally week.
I think that, if I'm going to be a form junkie, I'm going to need to start doing flip turns again. Ugh. I hate those suckers. But...swimmers need to do them.
Okay, next time I'm in the pool (probably Saturday; Friday will be a run since I've got a business thing tonight) I'm going to try the ol' flipturns again. Yikes. Scary!
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Used to swim all the time. Now when I try, I feel like my ear is waterlogged - constantly when I try to breathe doing freestyle. So annoying. And I don't like the flipturns... They make one so dizzy. :) Good luck with all that swimming!
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