Category Archives: Swimming

A new set this week, though very similar to my old one. In fact the only change I’m making is to reduce the rest interval for the 50m swims to 25s. And to my surprise I still made it all … Continue reading →

And another repeat of the set I’ve been swimming for the last few weeks. The pool was busy again today and I wasn’t really enjoying the choppy water, but despite that I managed to complete the 50m set without a … Continue reading →

Another repeat of the same set. Busy pool again, too. I failed only on rep 16 of the 50m set, but wasn’t unhappy as my times are really starting to get back to where they were now — I had … Continue reading →

Same set as last week today, but in a far busier pool. I wonder how many are on their post-Christmas fitness binge and will run out of steam over the next couple of weeks… Another improvement on my previous session, … Continue reading →

Yes, same set again 🙂 Today I didn’t fail on the first set until rep fourteen, so again an improvement on the previous session, despite feeling tired again. Sadly the 25s were again a disaster. As long as I keep … Continue reading →

Same set again, as ever. However, I decided that as the entire arm, and particularly the lower arm, generates forward motion in the pull, I’d mentally try to focus on what that part of my arm was doing, rather than … Continue reading →

The same set again, but I had a particularly poor night’s sleep and really didn’t feel as though I had any energy. I managed ten reps before failing on the first set with one more fail before completing it, but … Continue reading →

Same set again today. This time I got to fifteen reps before my first fail in the 50m part of the set. I struggled with the 25s though, and couldn’t even complete ten.

Same set again, and I did somewhat better than the previous time, failing on reps twelve and sixteen. I couldn’t manage many of the 25s though. My arms were just too tired.