Motivation to get fit
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Kitty
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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.
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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It's only a 20m pool were I work, and I'll be going there as it's free for staff lol.0
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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 it0
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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.0
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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:0 -
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Motivation: Fat people are ugly.
There you go.0 -
whyamihere wrote:Motivation: Fat people are ugly.
There you go.
I'm the exception to the rule.0 -
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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
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!!!0 -
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:
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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.0 -
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
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]0 -
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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.
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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.0 -
Kitty wrote:Hahahahahaaaa, wait are you being serious?
:P lol"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
The Northern Monkey wrote: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 boards0 -
Trying to swim with cramp0
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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?
MTB bit. Nevermind.0 -
Kitty in goose fat.
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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]0