I went in to the pool at my fitness center earlier than normal today to continue to work on my swimming. The pool was crowded and for some reason working on my swimming was just too frustrating! I was trying to do some of my training drills and was just struggling. After about 6-8 laps I had had it and seeing someone else wanting to get into the pool wrapped up my time. Maybe 10 minutes total.
I still feel like I got a decent workout but am frustrated. Frustrated with my progress swimming.
Frustrated that I canceled my membership at two other fitness places that I enjoyed to join a third that I am not enjoying. And while I am frustrated I am not deterred from my goal of healthy living and a fit body, I am just frustrated.I hope to start running again this week, it will be really hard to work on my swimming when the treadmill is there...
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Dude! Posting the tough stuff keeps it real, and that's all good.
I have found the swimming to be my biggest challenge in mastering. I think my swimming took a big step forward when I stopped trying so hard and gave myself a break. I decided that I could breath on the right EVERY time I started a new stroke. I also slowed down until I finally found a rhythm. Once I got a SLOW rhythm down, then I could start overtime improving the speed by gradually increasing the rhythm.
I went swimming today and then checked my times against old times.
Feb 8th - 750m 30 minutes
Feb 28th - 750m 25 minutes
April 23rd - 750m 21:30 minutes
While working on skills that you're not good at yet can be frustrating, it can also be cool because you get to see such progress. That's why logging your work somewhere, online or on paper, is so important.
Sorry about the gym stuff, but at least that's not too difficult to fix.
You rock bro! You're in my prayers and I appreciate your friendship.
Thanks for the encouragement. You're right (as usual) I just have not figured out a good way to track my work. Plus I have not found a good balance between drilling and swimming. I think a noseplug and some fins may help too. It is a pride thing and I would rather swim when the pool is not loaded with others.
Thanks for your encouragement. I am grateful that Hickory Knob is in October, and not July!
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