Workout: Swim 1000 Yards, Bilateral Breathing Drills, Abs/Core
Posted on February 18th, 2010 in Swim Log, Workout Log | 3 Comments »
I got to the “Y” at 5:45am and all the lanes were taken. I had to share a lane for a while. It was cool though because the lanes are wide enough. I really need to work on my bilateral breathing. I am not comfortable breathing on my left side. So the entire session was dedicated to bilateral breathing and stroke form. I notice that bilateral breathing helps me with my body rotation. The body rotations and doing long reaches on the stroke was helping me glide better. I was doing 16 to 17 strokes per 25 yards. Hmm… I wonder if I can get that down to 12-14. It is amazing how little things can make big improvements. I did 5 x 200 all bilateral breathing. I intend to continue working on this for the next few sessions.
In the afternoon I worked on abs/core. While the workout had intensity, it was nothing special. Pretty much plain vanilla.
Hey, have you ever had times when you made a decision and almost immediately knew it was the wrong decision? Here is one of those moments…

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That girl in the video could have accomplished the same exercise (without the crash) simply by using two books or two bricks. Only if the body passes the plane of the hands does something like that become effective.
I’ll bet getting back in the pool is refreshing. We have our first baseball practice scheduled for Sunday and the weather is supposed to be glorious! Hearing the crack of the bat (we play with wood bats) will be music to my ears!
Wow … not only was that a poorly conceived idea from the beginning but to then put it on youtube? Not to bright sweetheart!
Steve, Jeff… I think she realized her mistake pretty early, but didn’t know how to deal with it.
Steve… Man, I love the sound of a wooden bat. I didn’t know that there are still leagues that use them.