Any SWIMMERS around here?

[Syril]

** been swimming for 8 years crew **



repping swimmers on sight. show yourselves. would love to have discussions about it!

[dacvingwolf]

Wooo swam for both my high school and just finished my last year swimming in college!

[Syril]

Wooo swam for both my high school and just finished my last year swimming in college!

that's nice share some results and PR's. why'd you stop?



swimmers are welcome ITT

[dacvingwolf]

I was champion my sophomore year in the 200 free in Liberty League Championships. I stopped because...well I graduated haha. Still do some recreational now but I'm a surfer so I do that to help out my conditioning

[Syril]

I was champion my sophomore year in the 200 free in Liberty League Championships. I stopped because...well I graduated haha. Still do some recreational now but I'm a surfer so I do that to help out my conditioning

woah that's awesome! unfortunately I didn't participate in 200, only 50's 100's and 1000's. even though I've changed places and communities all throughout these 8 years I still didn't give up on it, neither should've you, but that's your choice still awesome to see that there are some great swimmers around here

[dacvingwolf]

I mean I'd do masters swimming, but i just finished up senior yr in college and kinda need my shoulders to rest a bit because they have over usage issues

[BetaSwimmer]

Swimming for 4 years, recruited to swim in college!

PR:

50 SCY Free: 22.81
100 SCY Free: 48.53

100 Back and 200 Free weren't nearly as good.

[Violander]

Helloes

Swam 'professionally' from 10-16, then swam for college and university (in UK), although stopped when I came to study in England, small pools and no good competitions back then. They put me in a lot of waterpolo teams but that's about all i did here.

Still love to do as preferred cardio though.

To be honest, all gym pools here are 20 yards vs. the 50M ones I am used to and love so much

Got disgustingly lazy, gained crap loads of weight in 2 years of no swimming, getting back into it now, I hope to at the very list reach the time I had when I was 16.

100M Backstroke is my thing (1.09 in 50M pool last time i remember).

What about you, OP?

[Syril]

Swimming for 4 years, recruited to swim in college!

PR:

50 SCY Free: 22.81
100 SCY Free: 48.53

100 Back and 200 Free weren't nearly as good.

amazing PR's! you beat me in the 50 SCY Free more of a distance swimmer, but also decent sprinter

Helloes

Swam 'professionally' from 10-16, then swam for college and university (in UK), although stopped when I came to study in England, small pools and no good competitions back then. They put me in a lot of waterpolo teams but that's about all i did here.

Still love to do as preferred cardio though.

To be honest, all gym pools here are 20 yards vs. the 50M ones I am used to and love so much

Got disgustingly lazy, gained crap loads of weight in 2 years of no swimming, getting back into it now, I hope to at the very list reach the time I had when I was 16.

100M Backstroke is my thing (1.09 in 50M pool last time i remember).

What about you, OP?

that's good to see you've been swimming 6 years, a shame you dropped it.

I've been swimming from the age of 5, took a 2 year break, swam again from ages 7~8 then again one year brake and now swimming 8 years from the age of 9.


PR'S:

50 SCY free: 23.28

100 SCY free: 48.21



repped all of you

[jabberwock55]

My parents made me learn swimming when i was a wee toddler.Now after almost 33 years I am starting again

[Iain1974]

Swam a lot in school but switched over to rugby/track/XC

Just recently joins a gym with pools so I like to swim 1/2 mile or so as a warm down a couple of times a week. Not fast at all but just for enjoyment. I hadn't swam for 25 yrs or so

[Syril]

Swam a lot in school but switched over to rugby/track/XC

Just recently joins a gym with pools so I like to swim 1/2 mile or so as a warm down a couple of times a week. Not fast at all but just for enjoyment. I hadn't swam for 25 yrs or so

that's great. baby steps. you can actually consider swimming as your cardio and do it every once in a while, I feel like it's more rewarding and just more entertaining then any other kind of cardio.

My parents made me learn swimming when i was a wee toddler.Now after almost 33 years I am starting again

It's never too late. I train in a professional team in a certain facility and after us there's a group of people that are 40+ that swim together and they swim just fine, you can see some of them had a swimming background. good job! swimming is good for alot of things, health is most important in my opinion.

[LuckSide]

I swam for 3 years in high school.

50 freestyle - 23.13
100 breast - 1:06.12

[dacvingwolf]

200 Free: 1:46.53

100 Back: 59.07

100 Free: 47.89

200 Back: 2:10.08

[Violander]

200 Free: 1:46.53

100 Back: 59.07

100 Free: 47.89

200 Back: 2:10.08

Just out of interest, is that meters? I didn't even know that "Yard" were considered official lengths. Live and learn I guess

[dacvingwolf]

Ya that was yards. Wish it was meters because I'm better at that ahahaha.

[Syril]

Ya that was yards. Wish it was meters because I'm better at that ahahaha.

quite the opposite actually, yards are shorter than meters ergo 100 yards = about 90 meters, still very solid PR

[PierceDem]

Swam for 8 years competitively, PR for 50m free 23.1. Switched sports now though, those training sessions became very, very tedious.

[dacvingwolf]

quite the opposite actually, yards are shorter than meters ergo 100 yards = about 90 meters, still very solid PR

What i mean to say is I'm better at meters because that's what I was trained in for high school and I was a mid distance to distance swimmer so I had better stamina in meters.

[Syril]

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[ccrump1212]

Started back up at the beginning of last year after a 10 year layoff. Had a 30s 50m Free when I was 14/15, quit before I could get into the 20's to play baseball. Mostly do distance now, ~28 min on a mile last time I timed myself. I feel like I should be able to get close to a 20 min mile if I drop a little more weight and wear a cap.

Was a very humbling experience jumping into the pool after that much time off.

[Adsl2]

What is the best way to learn to swim properly?

[Syril]

Started back up at the beginning of last year after a 10 year layoff. Had a 30s 50m Free when I was 14/15, quit before I could get into the 20's to play baseball. Mostly do distance now, ~28 min on a mile last time I timed myself. I feel like I should be able to get close to a 20 min mile if I drop a little more weight and wear a cap.

Was a very humbling experience jumping into the pool after that much time off.

keep going great for cardio and overall pleasure.

What is the best way to learn to swim properly?

I don't know about the others here but I started in a group. after 4 years in the group the practices became too easy for me and around that time I also got a scholarship ~ around 15, and from then I am swimming with a personal trainer. I'd recommend starting in a group.

[00o]

Been learning freestyle with a competitive swimmer. Never realized there's so many intricacies involved in JUST a small portion of hand movements. Guy makes me repeat parts of it like a thousand times a day (literally).

[Adsl2]

I don't know about the others here but I started in a group. after 4 years in the group the practices became too easy for me and around that time I also got a scholarship ~ around 15, and from then I am swimming with a personal trainer. I'd recommend starting in a group.

Thanks for the reply, I will check out my local swim schools and get quotations.

Another question, do you guys think it is possible to teach yourself how to swim properly or half-properly with YouTube videos and online material?

[Syril]

Thanks for the reply, I will check out my local swim schools and get quotations.

Another question, do you guys think it is possible to teach yourself how to swim properly or half-properly with YouTube videos and online material?

wouldn't bet on it. I'd recommend a group\trainer. If you got follow up questions there would be nobody to answer you

Been learning freestyle with a competitive swimmer. Never realized there's so many intricacies involved in JUST a small portion of hand movements. Guy makes me repeat parts of it like a thousand times a day (literally).

I know. I had to take physiology and anatomy classes about swimming to improve myself, there's alot more to it than you think.

[mbland02]

swam in high school crew. 50-100-200 free here and one 500 my senior year(every senior had to do one his senior year)

[Bsrfitness]

I grew up swimming competitively from the age of 6-13, Last year and this year I have been doing 50m sprints for cardio.
My Pr's are not insanely fast, but I am happy with them since I do not train for anything other than keeping in shape.
50m freestyle - 24.50seconds so I was pretty happy with that.

[Syril]

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[China505]

I swim pretty often 3-5 days a week but just or a workout, I swam a lot more when I was doing ironman triathlons, now I'll do some open water races if I'm nearby. I'm not that fast, my bea ironman swim was 1:02 (2.4 miles).