Swimming

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I swam in high school. It's a damn good workout. Your yardage is still pretty low probably if this is your first week. Eventually it stops hurting so much after two weeks and you feel yourself get really fit. I used to go to practice blazed and it felt like I was flying. Until we did a hard workout then it just sucked. Call me the original Michael Phelps i guess.
 
I quit my swim squad because swimming in pools got too boring, so now i just swim in the sea. But i guess if you dont have the sea to swim in, the pools second best.
 
I do. It's an intense workout. Good for skiing though all body training.

Try it for a few weeks maybe not do as many sets?
 
I was in such great shape throughout the middle of every high school year, from november till may we were swimming 4 times a week for about 2 hours, takes dedication but those were some of the fittest times of my life, now i run, which is a lot more stress on your joints but ill take it while i am young
 
i get out to swim twice a week and its a damn good workout i normally go for about 2km. its my preferred method of excercizing
 
the burning goes away after about two weeks and its so worth it. I'm tapering right now for the miac conferenc meet and I have soo much energy and im also in the best shape of my life its a great feeling. Its a really intense sport but also comparatively easy on your joints so its something you can do forever to cross train for skiing and just stay in shape.
 
you are just working mussels that you haven't before suck it up, even if everyone is whining just keep it in cool hand Luke style, don't whine to your coach.
 
i really like to go to the public pool to go on the diving board and flip and stuff but its like all little kids that go there so i dont really ever go that often.
 
I was captain of the varsity team in high school. Still swim laps, every once in a while, for cardio. Stick with it, and always push yourself to the max during workouts. Swimming is one of those sports you can keep with you for the rest of your life.
 
I swam in hs and was also a captain. The first week is the worst cus your using muscles that u have never used before but after that is fun. The first warmup 800 of the day was the worst part of any practice for me at least.....
 
I still have nightmares over "in and outs." Sprint 25, out of the water 15 push-ups, dive in, sprint 25, out 15 lunges, over and over. /CRINGE
 
you just started? our season ends right around now. sectionals is next weekend and states the weekend after that
 
our season is coming to an end... we had our sectional meet last weekend and districts are this weekend.. qualified in the 50 free 200 medley relay and 100 back.
 
my highschool doesnt have a swim team, but im on a team in the summer and on my Y club team.

probably gonna swim in college just haven't decided if i want D2 or D3 [there is no fucking way im doing D1 im too lazy]. i don't want it to cut in on my skiing time.

and its good that your legs hurt because a lot of swimmers don't use their legs enough. its a good habit to start off with.

what do some of your practices sound like?

and what team starts now? haha

 
I dont want to discourage you but its soo hard to get out and ski even doing D3. (in the midwest D3 is often faster than D2) You will probably have two-a-days at least three times a week and one or two meets every weekend, saturday practices the whole deal. You just end up skipping practices = mad coach. and team mates asking how you got huge butt bruises doing a "group project".
 
swimming will be the best and worst thing ever to happen to you. im not talking about doing high school or summer league for three months. im talking about those of you on an actual team.

you'll get better and better, start doing doubles and want to kill yourself, pound out more garbage yardage than you thought possible, miss out on lots of normal high school experiences, be forced to party only with other swimmers, be in the best shape of your life, meet a lot of other quirky swimmers just like yourself, become lazy as heck outside of a pool, sleep thru your morning classes because youre tired from morning practice, skip your afternoon classes because you have a meet, get to travel to some sweet places (fun travel meets kick the piss out of serious travel meets like for sectionals and zones and us open), stick with it long enough to watch your friends at the olympics (you arent going to make it, give up), give up a lot of skiing for all this, get easy summer jobs like lifeguarding or coaching summer league, maybe swim D1 in college and realize the coach just wants a W and makes you specialize in one or two events and doesn't give a shit about your grades, watch a lot of fast swimmers drop out, miss out on winter pow days cause youre at some dumb meet at a random dungeon pool, perhaps meet your future wife at zones, and maybe realize all in all its been a fun journey and want to swim once a week or month for the rest of your life and join a masters team.
 
I swam for most of my life and quit at the beginning of college so I could move on to other sports just for fun. You will get much better pretty quickly if you bust your ass every day. I quit at the right time for me. Our coach had us doing 10,000 every other day, and I didn't see an interval slower than 1:15 100s my last 2 years. Lots of fun and really tough, swam with a lot of Olympic trial types, great life experience. The hardest thing I ever did in my life was our clubs Ironman though. It's every year, 27,000 yards, all 100s, all 1:15 or 1:10. It took me 3 tries to finally finish one my Sophomore year.
 
shit girl. yeah i definitely don't want to quit swimming but i need to ski.

im caught up, i really don't know what to do. =/

and V.. you perfectly described my life right now.
 
swam all 4 years in high school to get in shape for lax. Definitely a good work out... give yourself a few weeks to get used to it.

7th in the state for 100m Butterfly

3rd in state for 200 Medley relay

/pointless claim
 
on a side note of above claim, V you described my highschool life PERFECtlY
i was so burnt of swimming by college and lucky found a new source of staying in shape that was ENDLESSLY more entertaining than swimming: rugby.
i cant even stand to get into a pool with lap lanes anymore.
 
all you guys are good for are a good rest for the swimmers and something good to look at for the girls...until the swimmers start haha. go MIHS swive!

jk I did both before I went to boarding school, which had neither.
 
dog trust me divers get much more pussy than swimmers. 1 we look good 2 we're not boring, tired passing out kids, and 3 we know how to have a good time
 
AWW HELLLLL NO.

1. swimmers look twice as good

2. the LAST thing swimmers are is boring.

3. if you think you know how to have a good time, you should come to one of my practices...

4. we fuck better. butterflyers where you at!
 
hahaha i was a diver and i was 6'3" and our workouts were pretty damn hard. not as hard as the swimming workouts, but we had ab workouts from hell.
 
haha i like this kid. 6'3" is a little tall for a diver, no offense, but he knows that diving is where its at. swimming makes you tired, diving is just fucking scary shit.
 
i always put it this way. you fuck up a swimming stroke, you just lose the race. you fuck up a dive, you could end up seriously fucked up.

but swimming is sick too. my brothers a swimmer, and it takes a ton of dedication and hard work. he pretty much lives swimming 24/7 365
 
YES!!!! ++K my 80 year old assistant coach on diving: "Its like stopping a football game in the middle for a damn dance competition"head coach: thats called poms
 
that's the thing about swimming.

it eats your life.

i used to hate it when all of my friends had swim team from 10-4 every day during the summer, then meets all day saturday.

and what Dubai said-pools are boring. ill take the ocean any day. the ocean is the single most powerful natural force on the face of the earth. there is something sick about being in the ocean....
 
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