I am the god of swimming(ish)

[Mud]

I might get one of these.

[daz h]

I find this always helps me.

no milli she isnt as slinky as you

[Mud]

I find this always helps me.

I might get one of those as well.

[Mud]

Thought you d already got one.

Stop trashing my thread. We are serious training people here, not part-time vacuuuuumers.

[Mud]

How do you think she would fare in Ullswater?

I'll give her a tri

[Daleside]

So sorry. is this more serious for you.

milli!!i cant believe you have put that picture from our hols up! I hate that swimming costume!!!

[Danbert Nocurry]

20 lengths doggy paddle at lunchtime and I didn't drown!

The water was a bit rough and I have a stiff neck now (I think that bit's because I swim like a girl), but roll on Ullswater!

All I need is a b(u)oy to hang on to every 25m and I'll be fine.

Mud ....in all seriousness hang in there.

I'm relatively new to 'fitness' swimming myself (having taken to it during a long injury period) but I’ve gradually built up a fitness base over the last couple of months by covering 64 x25m lengths 3 times a week whilst at he same time trying to improve my technique which was crap.

I bought a decent pair of goggles and spent quite a lot of time looking at other swimmers and studying their stroke technique. It helped relieve the boredom of following the blue line which was driving me mad and it definitely helped me improve my stroke.

Don't give up on it...you will improve

[Penguin]

i tried the swimming but i do have a slight tendancy to sink due to lack of fat?? the lifegaurd at the poolside was getting that thing ready to hang round ya neck.. i gave it up as a bad job and waddled back to the sauna

[Mud]

I'm relatively new to 'fitness' swimming myself (having taken to it during a long injury period) but I’ve gradually built up a fitness base over the last couple of months by covering 64 x25m lengths 3 times a week whilst at he same time trying to improve my technique which was crap.

Thanks for that. I'm thinking I'll probably go twice a week, with the week building up to be 4 runs, two bikes and two swims (I suppose the bike may need to be more than this. And the swim as well I suppose. Arse.)

I bought a decent pair of goggles and spent quite a lot of time looking at other swimmers and studying their stroke technique.

I did a bit of that today. I remembered just in time (well nearly) to stop doing it in the changing room though.

I may go and read 220 in WhSmiths, but it's wrapped up a lot of the time. Tight bastards.

[OneHillWonder]

I don't kick my legs very much at all. You are right that leg-action is not critical, nor, to a certain extent, is arm action (bear with me!) but it is the movement of your body as one through the water, the twisting of the torso, stretching the arms far in front of your head and so on...

Angle the body so that it cuts through the water like one of those racing yachts, don't lie flat in the water pushing through it like a barge - was how I had it explained.

I tried swim practice with some fellas that really knew how to swim. They strapped these thick black rubber bands around their ankles so their legs were never gonna kick, then they swam lengths. My life! I had to put a pullbuoy between my legs to stop my feet craashing through the pool tiles...

oooer it all sounds a bit complicated!

Must admit i do like the fact that swimming is good for an all over body type work out

i gave it up as a bad job and waddled back to the sauna

I think you did the right thing