#7641632 - 04/10/14 11:00 AM
Re: Swimmers ? Woo post a workout maybe?
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I think just getting in and doing the motions is all that's needed. At least while training short to moderate distances, for us newbies.
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#7641752 - 04/10/14 11:59 AM
Re: Swimmers ? Woo post a workout maybe?
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Mine usually consists of 5-15 bud lights or twisted teas. followed by 30mph whips outside the wake on a tube/wakeboard and then recovery swim from however far away i end up.
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#7641758 - 04/10/14 12:04 PM
Re: Swimmers ? Woo post a workout maybe?
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I think just getting in and doing the motions is all that's needed. At least while training short to moderate distances, for us newbies.
I suppose but I feel obligated to put in a good effort on the swim because I ain't passing anybody on the bike [alright.... MAYBE somebody will flat lol] and sure as shit won't be passing anyone on the run 
My only chance to get up somewhere decent in the rankings is on the swim leg for sure. So I feel like I have to at least train to my strengths. In other words---the opposite of what everybody recommends. If I listened to them I'd just drop everything and work on running.
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#7641770 - 04/10/14 12:10 PM
Re: Swimmers ? Woo post a workout maybe?
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I should probably let Chris weigh in since he's actually done one. But I'm told the swim is so short that unless you're a snail it won't make much difference. Seems the transition areas and the run are the biggest opportunities.
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#7642198 - 04/10/14 03:08 PM
Re: Swimmers ? Woo post a workout maybe?
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Holy crap.
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#7642225 - 04/10/14 03:17 PM
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Im not sure id say 99%. All the good tri guys I know spent some time in a proper swim program. And I dont mean a few weeks. Though i guess that number could be up there for weekend warrior/masters types.
. I swear water kept rushing into my noise unless I was constantly exhaling. you should be exhaling between breaths....
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#7642388 - 04/10/14 05:12 PM
Re: Swimmers ? Woo post a workout maybe?
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Im not sure id say 99%. All the good tri guys I know spent some time in a proper swim program. And I dont mean a few weeks. Though i guess that number could be up there for weekend warrior/masters types. . I swear water kept rushing into my noise unless I was constantly exhaling. you should be exhaling between breaths....
Yeah, I'm talking about people just getting into the sport at a later age...which makes up a very very large portion of any given Tri. You can look at results from any race and see that the number of competitors in the 35-39 or older age groups are usually twice as big as the 25 and under. I think that's mostly because those would be college aged kids and they will be focused on one sport.
My point is that anybody can go out and run or ride a bike. Proper freestyle form doesn't seem to come naturally to most people...and the older you are, the harder it comes. Open water mass starts also cause the most anxiety for newbies, so that's another hurdle that's isn't easy to overcome.
I've yet to meet a decently fast swimmer at a Tri that didn't have some kind of youth organized swim experience.
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#7642439 - 04/10/14 06:19 PM
Re: Swimmers ? Woo post a workout maybe?
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I wonder if art could go sub 50 seconds in a 50, guessing no
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#7643028 - 04/11/14 07:04 AM
Re: Swimmers ? Woo post a workout maybe?
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Euphoricuck
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Actually....more body fat is helpful to swimming efficiently and quickly. What dat float do?  I'm pretty sure my swim times slowed down as I lost most of my excess body fat....on the same amount of training. I had to up my time in the pool to get that speed back. anyone who is fast is generally carrying minimal fat. :p
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#7643237 - 04/11/14 09:29 AM
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#7643538 - 04/11/14 11:44 AM
Re: Swimmers ? Woo post a workout maybe?
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I dunno I think we're confusing an un-related property for some type of benefit. I've competed in swimming anywhere from like 8% BF (college/NCAA) to whatever I was a couple years ago (20s heh) and the only difference is slowing down, the 'do u even lift bro' guys that complain about swimming all have similar stroke deficits but were chasing the symptom for the cause. They always fail to glide or at least not have each additional stroke function as some kind of brake whe it enters the water, don't properly capture the water, rotate, and raise the hips properly. I always see some peculiar body angle with dropped hips. But it all starts with failure to basically 'catch' the water properly. Normally they are pushing down or something weird at the beginning of the stroke--easy to see underwater. I have no idea how to help them fix it. If they want to believe its their magic lean muscle mass that means they can't use proper form, who am I to argue. I see a lot of strange attitudes such as (bro? Do u know how much I can lift?) rather than trying to work on technique like everyone else does regardless of how advanced they might already be.
Some people get fat. Some swimmers get fat. That doesn't mean that because some swimmers get fat that being fat makes you fast(ER) just because it surprises people that in any other sport it REALLY slows you down, just not so much in swimming.
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#7643689 - 04/11/14 12:56 PM
Re: Swimmers ? Woo post a workout maybe?
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#7643711 - 04/11/14 01:04 PM
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#7660009 - 04/22/14 02:50 PM
Re: Swimmers ? Woo post a workout maybe?
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Yeah I was looking at some tri workouts they go like this Warmup Swim 1000 Warmdown Get out 
This was my workout today, lol. I finally got access to a lap pool again, so I am hoping to get in 2-3x a week. I will post my progress to keep the thread alive. Today, I did 1000m in 20 minutes. Pretty decent for just getting back into the pool after 4 months off. The garmin 310XT didn't work in the pool as well as I had hoped. However, I bike to the pool and back home, so the multi sport mode works out really well.
Lap swimming according to the GPS. It recorded 1200m as 1.5mi. 
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#7660596 - 04/22/14 10:24 PM
Re: Swimmers ? Woo post a workout maybe?
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The garmin 310XT didn't work in the pool as well as I had hoped. However, I bike to the pool and back home, so the multi sport mode works out really well.
How were you wearing the 310XT, on your wrist? Some people have reported drastically improved accuracy if you place it under your swim cap (assuming you're wearing one during training) than on your wrist.
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#7661117 - 04/23/14 10:24 AM
Re: Swimmers ? Woo post a workout maybe?
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awesome lol, I was considering doing that [GPS watch in the pool] some seem to use a pre-determined pool-lap size and detect a flip-turn or something/rapid acceleration and simply counting laps. Pretty darn accurate they say. Perhaps if you blow a flip-turn and barely touch it won't count the lap tho [dont do that then, duh] thats totally a solid pace [2:00 100m], good job! I'm working on my technique and particularly the freestyle kick at this point including underwater streamline/butterfly kick from the walls.Trying to improve my age-group 50 and 100m sprint speed  theres a new guy in my masters class thats a faster sprinter than me [in workouts, not sure about block start but probably] and it is annoying me greatly  I like the feeling of speed/sprint work mainly I try to get in (2) masters swim classes/week and at least 1 if not 2 days surfing in/week. Not sure how much those last 2 contribute to anything though lol
Thanks, I actually am not too skilled in kick turns yet, so I wasn't doing them during this swim. They actually have a Master swim program where I am at. They post the workout board, and anyone can do them, but they are always equate to something like 3500m , I'm just not there yet. And if I could substitute swimming for surfing, I would as well, even with no benefit lol.
How were you wearing the 310XT, on your wrist? Some people have reported drastically improved accuracy if you place it under your swim cap (assuming you're wearing one during training) than on your wrist.
Yeah, I had it on my wrist. Don't have a swim cap, but I may need one just for the GPS.
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