Tried the new paddles today, just 12x50 to get used to them. Haven’t had paddles since pre-shoulder injury and I could feel the burn. I do not pull w/ paddles faster than I can swim which I thought a lot of swimmers do. I don’t know.
Just want to get a bit more fitness back after being off - it was all pretty slow so its more tricking yourself into doing more than you think you want to.
Also I dont race - just watch the tri news and some of the race results and social media. Do swimming, biking and hiking as my main past times. Im “big boned” and while I did run a bit when I was college age it never stuck
Are you also using a buoy with them? Ya some folks are super sensitive to paddles, tweaks their shoulders. Me on the other hand, I guess I have kept my upper body resilient to hard pulling, lot of fly and paddle work consistent for the past 40+ years. Today was just another get through day, still coughing.
10x100 tiny paddles@1;30) (1;21 to 1;17’s) 5x100frog@2;00(1;56 to 1;50)
10x100 big paddle pull@1;30(1;18 to 1;14) 5x100frog@2;00(1;53 to 1;49)
2x(4x50p@1;00/50swim@1;00) pulls(38 to 35’s) swims(35/34)
6x50 frog/dolphin@1;20(62 ro 56+) 4x50 SD (43 to 39’s)
4000SCY in 72 minutes
I did one legged rowing when I fractured my fibula to stay in shape for swimming
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Yessir. I think it’s just been so long. I started to feel better throughout the set. The repaired shoulder is gonna hurt some no matter what, muscle-wise the extra resistance felt great. I do catch-like pull downs in the gym so I think the strength component is there, but I like the specificity of the paddles.
Do you use them every day? I might use every-other until I get more adapted to them.
Got in 5km (78 mins) this morning, work will have to wait.
5x400 on just steady get up mileage
10x100 with tempo trainer
100 200 300 300 100 temppo trainer
1km worth swim down
just trying to hold off the hard sets for awhile, but noticing that less lactate when starting a cool down which is fitness coming along. speed is dog shit though!
Yes paddles every day and most days some fly too. Just have never let my connecting tissues ever get weak I suppose.
So was at my low desert pool today, 86+ in the water, and 87+ in the air. You heard that right, two feet of snow in NY and a bomb cyclone hitting the Middle East coasts, and it hit 90 here today!! Decided on a breast day and half way through really had to shut it down to keep from boiling over:
3x(3x100buoy or pull@1;40/2x100frog@2;10/100breast@2;10) buoys(1;28 to 1;21) pulls(1;16/14/12) breast(1;39/1;32/1;29) frogs(1;56/54/51)
2x(6x100p@1;40 easy pace/3x100frog@2;10/2x50 hard@1;30) pulls(1;21 to 1;19’s) frogs(1;54/53’s) breast(43/42) pull(34/33)4x50SD(45/43.41/40)
4000SCY in 75 minutes
Lots of excuses….grandkids duties, doctor appointments….but trying to get in my three swims per week of 2500 to 3500 SCMs while regaining my run endurance which is up to three or four runs at 6 miles per run in the Minneapolis cold….yes we have ICE…..but that is a different story.
My cardiologist extended the cap on my heart rate (140 BPM) until I can do a stress test in May so I have been using paddles and a bouy to build endurance and strength. Who knows if I can race again but my goal would be a 70.3 this fall to celebrate my 70th birthday last October. Things old endurance athletes put themselves thru to make them happy:-)
Monday I did 3500SCM at my local Lifetime pool before flying down to Georgia to hang with my Atlanta grandkids.
500 swim/200 kick warmup
6 x 250 pull on 5 minutes, 200 kick
6 x 100 pull on 2 minutes, 200 kick
6 x 50 pull on 1 minutes, 200 kick
Hope to get in one swim at the Atlanta SCY pool if I can get there this week. Will be nice to run in shorts for a couple of days.
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3400 SCY
5x200@3:15 (2:50-2), 200K
10x100P@1:30(1:16-19), 200K
10x100 stroke in IM order @2:00 (1:23-1:41)
Skipped weight training this week because been digging out from 2 feet of snow. Using snow rake on the roof like doing lat pulls.
On pulling/paddles: try to do 1 pull set/practice at 25%-30% of total session distance. Absolutely need it to maintain strength. Also need it for Swim/Run.
This is me starting today, taking family to knots berry farm for a 4 day weekend, so no pool for me. But probably at least 10k of walking a day, imagine that has some training affect on this old 70 year old body..Did this one yesterday in the hot pool, really have to shut it down early to survive that water;
4x(5x100pull@1;40/2x50swim fast@1;30) tiny paddles(1;24 to 1;17’s) big paddles(1;18 to 1;12+) swims(37/36/36/35/36/34+/34+/32+)
2x(3x50p@1;00/100frog@2;30) 50’s(36/33+/34/31)
3500SCY in 68 minutes
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Nice. I always feel great when i can walk around a lot. Such a normal thing for our body - not being all sciencey but very ‘natural’ or ‘cave man’ etc. Cooped up behind a computer on the other hand writing back to people on email all day, no conversation or laughter? hell no
tallied up about 16k so far this week 4 days in, today was a 2km settler. 300 float. 500 400 6x50 300 6x50 trying to get the HR up and get moving
We have had unfortunately technical / renovation issues at two pools in my neighbourhood which meant my usual pool was overcrowded with early mornings being particularly bad (30+ people in a 50m lane etc). This has put me out of swimming for almost 3 months.
Happy to be finally returning, although my average time has dropped significantly from 1:45/100m to 2:00/100m when I first hit the pool. It seems to be improving again as I managed to do after 6 days of swimming at least 1:55/100m avg now on 4 or 5x500m. Long way back ahead of me. Any tips appreciated but I guess the most important is just to get as much water time as possible, and happy I got 12000m in this week so far.
3400 SCY. Last swim of month
800(11:52), 200K
Pull set: 4x150@2:15(1:54-8),4x100@1:30(1:18s),4x50@1:00(35s)
200K
IM set: 4x(100@2:00,75@1:30,50@1:00,25@30)
Just about building back some time in the goggles… instead of secs per 100 away from where you want to be, think of it as roughly how many kms you think you need to get back. Maybe 100km? Just good to tick it off in a different way.
26km for the week, 28 last week
can’t remember yesterday but today was 10x100 free easy, 100 free 100 back 100 frim 4x50 free (x 2) then 20x100 on 125, 10x100 free easy
saving a hard effort possibly a 2km event next weekend.
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You all have been busy little otters in the weeks I was out:
- Don’t be out if you’re of a certain age. Atrophy is real.
- Do use bands/weights of you’re out. My endurance is a mess but my stroke count is low. I recall this phenomenon from the COVID lockdown. Anyone else get this?
Anyway, nice to see everyone.