Muse back!
October 18, 2006 / Wednesday
Back To Freestyle
Feels like I made progress today, though I'm not sure if I have any quantitative measures to back it up. When I got out of the pool I felt like I got a workout. In the pool, I was winded, and it was because I was actually swimming back and forth in my little just-over-half-a-pool-length section of the pool. I can turn for air pretty consistenly in freestyle now, although I still can't do it endlessly. We continued to tweak my technique. I got a better understanding of how to simply (yes, I said simple) roll my head and look up for air without unnecessarily bending too many parts of my body. When we slowed me down it got even more simple. I also learned that I don't need to kick really really really hard, which helped a lot in terms of oxygen consumption and allowing me to focus on the efficiency of my strokes, which, for the record, is currently rated at highly to extremely inefficient, but hey, it's a lot better than when I started. I didn't even know how to take a stroke two weeks ago.
Wow, it's been only two weeks?
October 18, 2006 06:39 PM | Water
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That rocks! Go Viv!
I tried the Viv-forehead-bob-treading water on Tuesday and really liked it (but I think our lifeguard was a tad concerned, too). Very cool!
As for breathing, one of my teachers said to think of my head as a doorknob. Then I don't lift my head to breath, just turn it.
Posted by: Jennie at October 19, 2006 10:44 AM
LOL! Were you doing that to see what life is like as a Viv in water? I would very much like to tread chin-high, thankyouvermuch.
Hrm, doorknob, that's a good one. I'll try to keep that in mind the next time I try it. :)
Posted by: Viv at October 19, 2006 11:03 AM