I'm really lucky in that I've been in and out of the pool my whole life. I had swim lessons growing up and a pool in my backyard.
I've been going to the new pool facility my university just opened. There are two areas for swimming laps--one is in the recreation pool, in between what is called "water basketball" and the free swimming/floating/playing/splashing area are about four lanes. I prefer the other area, they have an Olympic-sized pool that they've divided in half width-wise with some sort of removable wall thing. One one side is the diving/water polo pool and on the other is a row of about ten or so 25-yard lanes. I prefer that side because it has backstroke flags that keep me from smashing my head on the side, and also because I just happen to like deeper water, it's more interesting to look at while I swim.
If I get there at the right time, I usually have a lane to myself, which is good because my backstroke tends to take me all over the lane. Every once in a while my preferred lanes will be closed so I'll head over to the rec pool which is shallower and warmer, and since there are only four lanes, it's more likely I'll have to share.
There's no instructor or anything, so mainly I've just been coming up with my own workouts with some advice from Antonio. Right now I warm up with a length of each stroke (crawl, side stroke on both sides, breast, and back crawl), then I do five lengths of each stroke, then a lap of each isolating first the legs then arms with kickboards and pull buoys and then I cool down the same way I warm up. I just finished my third week back in the pool and I'm up to about 1,550 yards (1,417 meters). My next goal is to do speed drills on lengths two and four in the first part of my work-out.
I'm sorry to hear about the swimmer's ear. I anticipated that (my sister developed a series of nasty ear infections when she was a toddler, so I'm paranoid) and bought some drops that I put in my ears after I get out. I wonder if that would help? Do you have any good pointers about stuff you've learned in the course of your swim training?
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Date: 2008-04-14 05:00 pm (UTC)I've been going to the new pool facility my university just opened. There are two areas for swimming laps--one is in the recreation pool, in between what is called "water basketball" and the free swimming/floating/playing/splashing area are about four lanes. I prefer the other area, they have an Olympic-sized pool that they've divided in half width-wise with some sort of removable wall thing. One one side is the diving/water polo pool and on the other is a row of about ten or so 25-yard lanes. I prefer that side because it has backstroke flags that keep me from smashing my head on the side, and also because I just happen to like deeper water, it's more interesting to look at while I swim.
If I get there at the right time, I usually have a lane to myself, which is good because my backstroke tends to take me all over the lane. Every once in a while my preferred lanes will be closed so I'll head over to the rec pool which is shallower and warmer, and since there are only four lanes, it's more likely I'll have to share.
There's no instructor or anything, so mainly I've just been coming up with my own workouts with some advice from Antonio. Right now I warm up with a length of each stroke (crawl, side stroke on both sides, breast, and back crawl), then I do five lengths of each stroke, then a lap of each isolating first the legs then arms with kickboards and pull buoys and then I cool down the same way I warm up. I just finished my third week back in the pool and I'm up to about 1,550 yards (1,417 meters). My next goal is to do speed drills on lengths two and four in the first part of my work-out.
I'm sorry to hear about the swimmer's ear. I anticipated that (my sister developed a series of nasty ear infections when she was a toddler, so I'm paranoid) and bought some drops that I put in my ears after I get out. I wonder if that would help? Do you have any good pointers about stuff you've learned in the course of your swim training?