Sounds similar to my day. Daughter's track meet was much longer than anticipated. Barely got done in time to pick-up long lost husband from airport. He was 40 hours sleep deprived and hungry, so seemed best to stay home and prepare dinner, which he still managed to help me do. Then, I had just enough time to take care of animals and seedlings, plus a little warm up for tomorrow's flute recital. Am planning on a run this morning.Didn't get in yesterday's run.
That's a long swim session!1 hr 40 min swim. very few breaks, except when my 9 yr old girl was swimming a few laps with me.
Thanks.That's a long swim session!
I read somewhere that aerobic capacity is activity specific, so while your heart and lungs were in good aerobic shape when you began swimming, due to your running, the muscles you use in swimming probably weren't.Thanks.
I'm kind of proud of my effort. Qualifiers: I was striving for smooth and slow and easy breathing. There were maybe 10 laps working in on the kickboard to get a bit more leg exercise, though I find that more tiring in some respects than just freestyle.
Also, I do take *tiny*breaks at the wall, like one or two big slow breaths, before I go again. It's been a long road getting to the point of not running out of breath, but I"m stubborn. I wonder if there are actual physiological changes that take place when we train our breathing this way? In any case, my heart rate used to shoot up even on the most relaxed lap; now I'm finding that it no longer seems like so much work, and I'm not convinced that it's all conditioning and aerobic capacity, as I started swimming with a fair amount.
If the wall weren't there (i.e. open water) I'm not sure I could keep it up. Looking forward to taking baby steps into swimming open water this summer, if the weather ever warms up enough to heat the lakes around here. In the meantime, I just found out that my area has a public outdoor pool with 50 meter long lap lanes, open lunch and evenings in june.
Be patient....don't set yourself back by tearing up your feet, if you can help it!Did a 3.1 mile run at the beginning of the week, it was my first attempt at running that far bf. Was pretty satisfied with my effort, actually got right under 7:00 pace which I did not expect. I think that without some of the rough sections in my neighborhood I would be able to approach my shod 5k PR time. Feet were pretty beat up though, was walking very gingerly for a couple of days.
Be careful though! Most recommend not even racing for a whole year while you acclimate to barefoot running. And even if you weren't racing that's still pretty much a race pace.Did a 3.1 mile run at the beginning of the week, it was my first attempt at running that far bf. Was pretty satisfied with my effort, actually got right under 7:00 pace which I did not expect. I think that without some of the rough sections in my neighborhood I would be able to approach my shod 5k PR time. Feet were pretty beat up though, was walking very gingerly for a couple of days.
aI read somewhere that aerobic capacity is activity specific, so while your heart and lungs were in good aerobic shape when you began swimming, due to your running, the muscles you use in swimming probably weren't.
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Be patient....don't set yourself back by tearing up your feet, if you can help it!
Be careful though! Most recommend not even racing for a whole year while you acclimate to barefoot running. And even if you weren't racing that's still pretty much a race pace.
Yah, that makes sense. I guess I wasn't paying enough attention to what you were saying. And I'm semi-retired from exerciselookerupping, so I'm happy to accept your explanation as the official version, especially since I can barely swim. I still think there's something to be said for having to get your arms and back in aerobic shape though. At least, I know I would have to adjust, even though my upper body is in OK anaerobic shape.a
I agree in some respects, but I think swimming is way different in that you have to control your breathing in a certain way. From the beginning, if I were to only kick my way across or have my face out of the water somehow, where I could breathe mostly at will, I would not get out of breath. Sure, I would be working hard, but not out of breath in that tingly oxygen deprived way. 10-20 laps never felt like that much work to me once I could do it, and my instructor has told me my technique is good, but it's only been in the last few weeks that I"m not out of breath.
Learning to breathe out-out-out then in then out-out-out then in for long periods of time has been the challenge. Knowing when I needed a little extra in a lap so I should take more breaths, being able to hold my breath for longer periods, those are things that would not be important with many other activities.
Honestly, I haven't looked it up (and you're the exercise looker upper---you should do that in your spare time and get back to me ), but it would surprise me if there were no physiological changes that take place in swimming that is specifically to do with oxygen uptake or something with breathing/diaphragm use that goes beyond just aerobic conditioning for a particular sport.