SWIMMERS of Vegweb
Posted by secondbase on Aug 05, 2008 · Member since Dec 2005 · 5540 posts
I feel like there's a thread dedicated to other forms of cardio and this one used tobe my favorite. I swam competitively for nine years, but stopped during high school after gaining a bunch of weight due to depression. I'm not in the best shape lately and have seriously been considering getting back into swimming because it is a form of cardio that I thoroughly enjoy doing. I run about 5 miles per week (on average), but would give part of that up to be back in the water again. I used to be a great backstroker and I swam a few marathons (1 mile, 2 miles)) when I was younger but it seems like forever since I've been in the water. I know some of you must be swimmers. Let's talk! :)>>>
ive been swimming alot lately.. but i think the pool ive been swimming in is 45% chlorine cuz my hair turned BRIGHT green after only an hour.. its pretty cool tho.. i swim in the ocean too sometimes, but i like to swim at night and i cant really go in the ocean at night cuz there are these horrible little stinging things in the water that only come out at night, so its the pool for me.. ive been swimming usually 2/3 mile a day, sometimes 1/2 when im tired, and sometimes a mile when i feel up to it.. i <3 the water.. i was a surfer since i was like 12, so i am really used to the water, but since there are no waves here i just swim instead.. sometimes i swim in the ocean with my snorkel on so i get to see all the awesome fish while im exercising.. i saw a sea turtle the other day :)>>>
I loooove snorkeling and scuba diving. It's an entire different world. I feel in my element when I'm under the water even though I'm a bad swimmer.
anyway, swimming is the ONLY form of exercise that i enjoy. i think it's because it's the only one where you don't really sweat. sweating frigging sucks. but i can bust my ass in the pool and never feel gross. i know that sounds dumb, but i've tried every other form of exercise and the sheer sweatiness alone usually turns me off.
Ha, I used to tell my friends in high school this all the time. I think you do sweat, profusely, but you just can't feel it.
I also used to swim competetively. Backstroke and distance free! I think I was born without the hip flexibility needed for really good breast and fly. I can do them, but they are not pretty.
I loved practices and hated meets. Too much stress for me! I love sports and physical activity, but I don't have a competetive bone in my body.
Except for scrabble.
i've been thinking about starting to swim again for exercise, but my only option here is to join the ymca, and it's $45 a month, with a one time fee of $50 up front.. and i really cannot afford it.
The Y here in Canada gives you free membership if you can't afford it. I guess it's not the same in the US? :'(
and the ones that you have to drive to aren't for swimming laps, they're just for grimey kids to be in all the time (aka my nightmare).
my nightmare too! eeek. Every wednesday while I had summerschool PE we would have to swim laps in the school/community pool for an hour. And EVERY DAY, ALL DAY there are babies and little kids taking swimming lessons in there. I never saw anyone in there above the age of 8 besides my class. And god forbid you get water in your mouth, it tasted like bromine and piss. It was SO SALTY! ahh. And was slightly yellow. :wow: I don't mind the ocean because that's cool. But freakin swimming pools where the water is not circulated and it's just...a POOL OF PISS, agh.
and the ones that you have to drive to aren't for swimming laps, they're just for grimey kids to be in all the time (aka my nightmare).
And god forbid you get water in your mouth, it tasted like bromine and piss. It was SO SALTY! ahh. And was slightly yellow. :wow: I don't mind the ocean because that's cool. But freakin swimming pools where the water is not circulated and it's just...a POOL OF PISS, agh.
Uhm, thanks for that. Really, I think I'm going to go throw up now.
FYI Swimming in the rainforest was amazing, the water was so clear and tasteless as the waterfalls keeps it all moving...
ive been swimming alot lately.. but i think the pool ive been swimming in is 45% chlorine cuz my hair turned BRIGHT green after only an hour.. its pretty cool tho.. i swim in the ocean too sometimes, but i like to swim at night and i cant really go in the ocean at night cuz there are these horrible little stinging things in the water that only come out at night, so its the pool for me.. ive been swimming usually 2/3 mile a day, sometimes 1/2 when im tired, and sometimes a mile when i feel up to it.. i <3 the water.. i was a surfer since i was like 12, so i am really used to the water, but since there are no waves here i just swim instead.. sometimes i swim in the ocean with my snorkel on so i get to see all the awesome fish while im exercising.. i saw a sea turtle the other day :)>>>
I always wanted to surf. And apparently, at some beaches back home, there are so small waves that are good for surfing. And there's a kitesurfers community growing back home, so I will have to check that out eventually.
I love the water and swimming, but i'm not that good at it. I used to be like a freakin tadpole when I was younger...but then we moved away from the beach and I started only swimming a few times a year.
i used to swim real well when I was younger, too. then when I started back this summer I sucked. After a while of practice I'm much better though. So just give it some time. I actually taught myself freestyle (if I'm doing it right); when I was younger I only swam underwater.
The only stroke I don't like doing is butterfly. I always hated doing the I.M. at swim meets because the third stroke you do is butterfly and you're already getting worn out! I can bring it home hard in the freestyle at the end though
2ndB- Fly was always the first stroke you did in an IM! Fly, back, breast, free, remember? You do fly first and then basically "collapse" on your back in the water out of exhaustion? :) You must be thinking of the relays, where it's back, breast, fly, free, because the backstroker has to start first in the water.
Man, it's been so long. I could have sworn fly was third! I was always teh backstroker in our medley.
i've been thinking about starting to swim again for exercise, but my only option here is to join the ymca, and it's $45 a month, with a one time fee of $50 up front.. and i really cannot afford it.
The Y here in Canada gives you free membership if you can't afford it. I guess it's not the same in the US? :'(
they have 'financial aid' and i haven't tried getting it before.. but most places tell me i make too much money and only look at my utility bills (which aren't that high because i'm careful) and not food bills, rent, gas, car payment, cell phone bill, etc that my money also goes to.
they have 'financial aid' and i haven't tried getting it before.. but most places tell me i make too much money and only look at my utility bills (which aren't that high because i'm careful) and not food bills, rent, gas, car payment, cell phone bill, etc that my money also goes to.
When I was around 6 or 7 we had a pass for the Y that was strictly for pool usage and was less expensive. Do they still offer that?
nope, it says specifically on their website that they DO NOT offer pool passes. you have to have a full membership. the y here is mostly engineered towards getting rich people to join, not just normal folks like myself. it's actually pretty lame.
rich is pretty relative, you know. there are some who would think having a car payment and a cell phone is rich; and I think those are the people who they aim at for free membership at the Y. it is pretty expensive in my opinion though, but still cheaper than most other gyms. and it really depends on where you live, too. the Y around me (alabama) is probably 1/4 (or less) the price of the Y in NYC.
rich is pretty relative, you know. there are some who would think having a car payment and a cell phone is rich; and I think those are the people who they aim at for free membership at the Y. it is pretty expensive in my opinion though, but still cheaper than most other gyms. and it really depends on where you live, too. the Y around me (alabama) is probably 1/4 (or less) the price of the Y in NYC.
well, i could definitely be 'rich'-er. when i say rich i mean people who make over $100,000 a year. and i make less than $15,000 a year. so relatively speaking, i am not rich.
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