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KeithMoon2112 05-16-2008 03:51 PM

Swimmers?
 
I've swam on the high school team all three years I've been in high school, and the club team on and off.

I think its great exercise (three hours a day - 1 in the morning and 2 in the afternoon) and most chicks dig the swimmer body (not that I have one - too many cokes after practice ;))

Does anyone else on MB swim?

swim 05-16-2008 03:55 PM

...I do not swim often.

right-track 05-16-2008 04:30 PM

My 7 year old son swims and he's doing well.
He's up to 200 metres on his back.
Best all round exercise activity you can do.

simplephysics 05-16-2008 05:07 PM

YES!
I've been swiming for greater part of my life and It's pretty much the only sport I'm good at :/

I'm in between clubs at the moment, due to coaching problems. I haven't been to the pool in ages..

Billy_Martin 05-16-2008 06:58 PM

Went to the Texas State High School championship in 2000 for 4A. Swam for 7 years competitively in Canada and the United States.

Seltzer 05-16-2008 08:59 PM

I've always been a poor swimmer because I could never properly master the breathing component of freestyle. No matter how I do or don't blow out of my nose, water always goes up it.

But I'm pretty good at backstroke... there's no breathing technique involved there and I seemed to pick it up straight away as I could easily maintain a straight line with decent speed.

KeithMoon2112 05-17-2008 12:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by right-track (Post 480690)
My 7 year old son swims and he's doing well.
He's up to 200 metres on his back.
Best all round exercise activity you can do.

Heck yeah - backstroke is my favorite!
Its funny because around here, all the pools are 25 yards, but we have a 25 meter pool at our school, so when we go to other schools the pools are literally shorter. Depending on the race length its actually not that big of a difference (except for the 500 yard freestyle - when we swim it at our meter pool we only do 400 meters), but it really helps mentally.

guitr_freek 05-17-2008 01:38 PM

I try to swim every day during the summer. It's truly the best exercise that you can do. It works out every muscle in your body, and it's also so much fun.

The diving boards are also so much fun. I've been told to join a diving team, but I've had no formal training in my entire life, so that was very flattering for me.

Farkas22 06-30-2008 08:52 PM

lazy exercise
 
how do you get a swimmer's body without swimming?

Laces Out Dan! 07-07-2008 11:54 PM

I swim in the river a lot in the summer..havent been to a pool in a long time though.

adidasss 07-08-2008 01:22 AM

I like swimming. I haven't managed to learn the breathing technique though so it looks awkward but who cares aye...I mostly do breaststroke because I get tired fast doing freestyle...:|

right-track 07-08-2008 12:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Farkas22 (Post 494124)
how do you get a swimmer's body without swimming?

Fish him out with a long stick.

Molecules 07-08-2008 03:14 PM

public swimming complexes? forget it. i just need to remember going blind on chlorine as a kid and being half-killed by wave machines and roly-poly mums in one-pieces. still got my 300m though, yay.

whodidthat? 08-12-2008 03:40 PM

I swim everyday. best exercise to do.

FETCHER. 08-10-2009 07:29 PM

i lovee swimming, ive never been in a club but im pretty good for never being coached, im quite fast also, i swim atleast once a week as im a lifeguard, i coach swimming parttime also :D

anticipation 08-10-2009 08:45 PM

my swimming lessons equate to being thrown into the pacific ocean during the rainy season in as a 12 yr old. the result? no form, just function. but I have spent a few summers poolside.

simplephysics 08-10-2009 10:23 PM

I use to swim as a sport, but left it for sneaking into random apartment buildings to use their pool when it's too hot out to do anything else.


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