Swimming

[Kid Presentable]

Or, deflabbying the flabby and sick.

I don't really do gyms, but this time last year I started swimming 4 times a week. It was awesome, it got me out and gave me time to think. Plus I was waking up feeling mad energised.

I stopped after a particularly pissy March trip to Sydney, but have started again with uni wound up for the year. I was such a flailing fuck when I started I couldn't even do a single lap of a 25m pool (never been a great swimmer, funnily enough), but now I can swim a fair bit in 30 minutes and I exercise and all that stuff that the normals do.

I like to swim.

[Tzar]

i wish i did more swimming. i can't stand public pools though. perhaps beach swimming when it's warmer?

i've been hitting the straps too; 6 days a week (3 cardio/3 gym). i've dropped about 10 kilos in the last 9 months. some say i didn't need to but...... i want a 6 pack. it's so shallow, i know, but it's the hardest muscle(s) to physically achieve so working for it is somewhat rewarding too.

my arse in considerably smaller too.. sitting on hard objects hurts more, like, there's less cushion there. that sucks.

[cosmo105]

I absolutely love swimming. It's such a great workout for your whole body. It comes pretty naturally to me, despite struggles with asthma slowing me down here and there. I grew up with a pool and played water polo in high school. There was nothing better than that early-morning shower in the locker room after a really great swim. Our team was terrible, but at least we were fast.

I work out at least a couple times a week (usually :o) but don't have access to a good pool and it really bums me out. This thread is inspiring me to find one near me and get off my ass and start doing it again, though (y)

[Echewta]

^ of course you are good at swimming.

Last year was my first triathlon and I loved waking up with the sun to lap swim. Freestyle is awesome.

Dog paddle is still my favorite.

[Guy Incognito]

am not a great swimmer but now i have kids i would like to sort that out but to be honest just taking the bairns to the kids pool every week is enough exercise and good fun and its been a buzz helping the kids learn to swim. But at some point i think they are going to be teaching me! I can get from one end to the other but any sort of distance, forget it.

I think its quite a difficult thing to admit as an adult that you cant swim. I know a few people who cant and they are very embarrased about it.

[Dorothy Wood]

I used to swim like a little fishy when I was wee, but I never could get the hang of any particular stroke.

I like water and swimming, but it's an awful lot of prep and clean up what with the shaving and whatnot. Also, my head hair is thick and pretty long, about to my lower back, so getting it washed and dried after swimming is a pain.

Exciting stuff, I know!

anyway, swimming is fun, maybe I should just wear a wet suit and get an extra large swim cap.

[jabumbo]

i tend to forget how to breathe when swimming

otherwise its great

[Adam]

I find it easier to breath when my nose and mouth are out of water than in, but that just a personal preference.

I love swimming to, haven't been for a long time tho (forgot why I stopped) but have been recently thinking of taking it up again because I'm wimping out of runs atm.

[silence7]

If someone pushes me into a pool I can get myself out, at the beach I rarely go in past my chest. I can swim the length of an Olympic sized pool, but I'm not having fun doing it. I'm just not a water person. It's nice because the girls around water generally dress skimpy, and water cools you off, but other than that, you can have it.

Grew up around dirt bikes, BMX, and mountain bikes, I'm most at home in the dirt.