i did 40 laps in 47 minutes...which makes me wonder, did i miscount today or yesterday?
there's no way it took me 8 more minutes to do the same number of laps.
but then again, today i did a lot without the buoy or board. i'd alternate freestyle and breaststroke, and when i felt up to it did back to back freestyle. i threw in some pulling laps to help catch my breath. and a few butterfly laps to work the abs. i ended with the underwater exercises. i swear i have absolutely no lung capacity.
one thing that helped, and this is going to sound totally silly and ludicrous, but for some reason it helped if i hummed underwater while i blew air from my nose. kind of like doing a yoga "oooooohhhhmmm". it sounds totally stupid i know, but i don't know it made me feel less like i was drowning and more like i was swimming...like a dolphin maybe? who the hell knows.
i did become self conscious of this though when michael phelps' twin brother got in the lane next to me. he WAS a dolphin like those dudes in madonna's cherish video. remember them? but i was less self conscious around him than when the pool/spa/sauna/steam room area was filled with the latino mafia. at one point during my time in the pool, there were at least half a dozen dudes just chillin' in their wife beaters. some were actually in the spa or sauna, but a good number of them were just sittin' around. a few of them stood with their arms crossed. they didn't appear to be checking out the ladies, since there were none, except for me and a few elderly ladies. but they didn't look like they were gonna cause trouble either. again, who the hell knows.
11 comments:
When I learned how to swim as a tot, my swim teacher always told us to pretend to be bumblebees and always hum.
This was a great 90s flashback post as I reminisce about swim lessons and Madonna. I can practically smell the chlorine. :)
As a fellow swim lover it sounds like you are doing a great job. I also like to alternate freestyle and the breaststroke to tally up most of my laps and then add a few additional strokes here and there to break up the monotony.
I feel for you with the underwater swimming...that takes time to build up but you will get there. I can make it one lap now and feel like my lungs are going to explode. I say, keep humming away!
Humming? Huh. I'll have to remember that.
Chillin in wife beaters aroudn the pool?!? Where the heck do you swim? LOL
haha I would have been intimated by the Phelps twin!
Wow, great job on your swimming! I like your humming trick- totally makes sense to me. But I swim with a nose clip like a baby so I don't think it'd help me. I have been trying to swim occasionally sans clip so I will try humming then.
Phelps twin? Holy crap.
Great videos. :D
I love buoy swimming for some reason...though I haven't been in a public pool so I'm not sure how it would go with a crowd. Are you enjoying the swimming?
Great job on your swimming! For some reason picturing those homies chillin' by the pool made me laugh out loud...how random!
Michael Phelps twin? I always thought he was kinda cute... in an athletic sort of way... Maybe it was just his large arms and chest!
You are rocking the pool!
Came across your blog and love it! Were the abs in the lane next to you really as nice as Phelps...? ;)
Hmmmmmmmmmmm, I hum underwater too.
Well sort of.
Post a Comment