Motivation to get fit

Kitty
Kitty Posts: 2,844
edited August 2010 in The Crudcatcher
Just signed up to do this:
http://www.aspire.org.uk/channelswim/

Will need to do 148 lengths a week, so I aim to do about 50 lengths three times a week to begin with.

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  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    How much is a length? 25m?

    I went swimming for the first time in aaaaages the other day.

    Did 30 lengths, could have done more but I was really hungry! :oops: Anyway, I really ache afterwards, using a load of previously lazy muscle I guess.
    MTB/CX

    "As I said last time, it won't happen again."
  • Kitty
    Kitty Posts: 2,844
    It's only a 20m pool were I work, and I'll be going there as it's free for staff lol.
  • welshkev
    welshkev Posts: 9,690
    i'm a really bad swimmer, not that i can't swim. it's just that after probably 10 lengths i'm absolutely knackered!!!! i've never seemed to get any better, even when i lived in tenerife and had a pool right outside my door and the sea a 5 min walk away and i was swimming everyday i still was poo at it :(:lol:
  • Kitty
    Kitty Posts: 2,844
    My Mum was a swimming teacher when I was younger and help run a club so I had no choice in swimming. I do like it though, I used to train 4-5 times a week doing from 100-200 lengths a session so once I get back in to it shouldn't be too bad, and I still do swim for my lifeguard training anyway.
  • mea00csf
    mea00csf Posts: 558
    hmmm, i'd personally try to get some lake swims in and get into a 50m pool at least once a week in the run up to your swim.
    The amount of turns you'll be doing in a 20m pool is silly and will completely distort your perception of effort to swim a set distance. You'll be surprised how much more knackering 100m is when it's 2x50m instead of 5x20m.

    DOH!, should really click the link before offering advice! :oops:
  • Kitty
    Kitty Posts: 2,844
    Indeed :P
  • whyamihere
    whyamihere Posts: 7,719
    Motivation: Fat people are ugly.

    There you go. :)
  • Andy
    Andy Posts: 8,207
    whyamihere wrote:
    Motivation: Fat people are ugly.

    There you go. :)

    I'm the exception to the rule.
  • Kitty
    Kitty Posts: 2,844
    I'm not fat though and don't want to lose weight, just be fit.
  • forcutty
    forcutty Posts: 1,055
    I did the Aspire swim last year :roll:
    As I normally swim 3 miles a week anyway I knew that I'd do it easy, so my aim was to do it in 4 weeks which i did :lol:
    Was really hard though as I kept miscounting so a friend/mum/lifeguard had to count every day.
    Tips, are to eats lots of carbs, pace yourself,different strokes and to have rest days.
    Couscous is my favourite pre swim meal as its light and filling.
    Bananas after though as they give me cramp in the pool :?
    Good luck!!!
  • I need to lose a bit of weight then ill start swimming, be nice to get fit without putting stress on the old knees...there eighteen years old :/ could do with a rest :roll:
  • Kitty
    Kitty Posts: 2,844
    forcutty wrote:
    Bananas after though as they give me cramp in the pool

    See, weird thing is I get cramp, but I've never once had cramp when I've been swimming, I think this is strange but I'm not complaining.
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 62,191
    I thought you were actually going to swim the Channel and was impressed till I clicked the link realised it was in a nice warm swimming pool :wink: That's a fair old distance to swim, but wouldn't you rather get fit by doing more MTB'ing?
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • Kitty
    Kitty Posts: 2,844
    Hahahahahaaaa, wait are you being serious?

    :P lol
  • jay12
    jay12 Posts: 6,126
    i do a fiair bit of swimming myself. but i swim in a outdoor swimming pool as i hate swimming indoors, too many people, too hot, yu run out of breath too easily, too much chlorine. i dunno what's the furthest i have swam but it's like 300m in like an hour or two(can't remember) i reckon i could beat that now but my dad is too busy to be able for me to have enough time.


    good luck
  • went "swimming" for the 1st time in ages the other week...

    Quite enjoyed it tbh... would like to find a pool down in Cardiff to take it up I think.
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 62,191
    edited August 2010
    Kitty wrote:
    Hahahahahaaaa, wait are you being serious?

    :P lol
    Which bit: the bit about not being impressed beacuse you're not smearing yourself in goose fat and swimming one of the busiest shipping lanes on the planet, or the bit about doing more MTB'ing? :D
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • jay12
    jay12 Posts: 6,126
    went "swimming" for the 1st time in ages the other week...

    Quite enjoyed it tbh... would like to find a pool down in Cardiff to take it up I think.

    good for you :)

    i wish i could take some $hitty bike to do tricks of the boards :lol:
  • forcutty
    forcutty Posts: 1,055
    Trying to swim with cramp :cry:

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  • Kitty
    Kitty Posts: 2,844
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    Which bit: the bit about not being impressed beacuse you're not smearing yourself in goose fat and swimming one of the busiest shipping lanes on the planet, or the bit about doing more MTB'ing? :D

    MTB bit. Nevermind.
  • IcarusGreen
    IcarusGreen Posts: 1,486
    Kitty in goose fat.

    in the words of Lord Flashheart.......

    WOOF!!.
    + 1001 posts reset by the cruel cruel moderators!

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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 62,191
    For once, my last post wasn't meant as a pervy comment but as this is the Crudcatcher you can see why the ladies might take it the wrong way :)
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]

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