Swimming- its harder than it looks..., So you think you can handle swimming... Options

[Blackhorn]

A lot of people laugh when I say I'm a swimmer. They blow off swimming as some whimpy sport- but its harder than you'd think. I practice on 2 different teams- one year round and one during the winter. My total practice time a week is around 10 hours.
You think you can handle that?

Here are some of my favorite sets:
10x100 on 1:00
5x500 (top race time)
10x200 on 1:50 descending 1:30
8x25 no breathe- sprint!!

You do some of these- these are the easy ones!

[seremela_culnamo]

Swimming isn't easy at all. I remember how I used to learn swimming when I was a kid. It was terrible. I was forced to learn since my dad doesn't know how to swim and my mom almost drowned in a lake once when she was a kid. But I was born with a heart condition, which is what made it really hard for me to learn. Like I could swim a metre or something, and then I will have to stop and gasp for air. So yea. But my heart problem healed when I was in grade 5, so it got better then.

I stopped taking lessons. I started off with community centre swimming, then I did private club swimming. I love front crawl. Especially when I challenge myslef to breath like ever 8 or more =DI know I'm not the world's greatest swimmer or even a good one >< But yea. I try and I'm not that bad. I hate back crawl. I'm scared of crashing my head against the wall. Like I know it's coming, but sometimes it comes sooner than I think and yea. =P

Turning in water if fun, though =D I mean, more like flipping. My friend, he learned how to turn and kick off the wall. But it was more like turning around in the water. But my way was more like flipping around and kicking off the wall like those in the Olympics.