[Sportsandrec] Swimming

[Joe Shaw]

Ashley,
I have never and will never count strokes. I was on the swim team for three 
years and learned long ago you swim til your hand or your head hits the wall 
and I've the scars to prove it. It's my body getting back to that activity 
that I struggled with that I am troubled by. I'm in again tomorrow.
As for when I learned to swim, this is the one major thing I have to thank 
my bio mother for. She taught me when I was barely five as she was a great 
swimmer and I never would stay on the sideline and kept  jumping in so she 
figured she better teach me before she got into a jam for letting me drown. 
Thanks mom!
"1, 2, 3, 4" "Tell me that you love me more" "5, 6, money can't buy you 
happiness" 1234 Feist
JSNM
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net>
To: "Sports and Recreation for the Blind Discussion List" 
<sportsandrec at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 11:35 AM
Subject: Re: [Sportsandrec] Swimming


> Joe,
> Let us know if you win over your opponent.
> Did you swim alone?
> If so, you probably had to  count strokes to find the end.
> You're probably not used to water.  Its different than other cardio 
> because you are pulling your body through the resistance of the water. 
> Muscle bulk would be a disadvantage.  The swimmers I know lift for tone.
> Anyway, you're off to a good start and with practice things will go 
> better.
>
> Ashley
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Joe Shaw" <jrs3147 at comcast.net>
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> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 4:32 PM
> Subject: [Sportsandrec] Swimming
>
>
>> Ladies and gentlemen,
>> As you know, I do the lift/ spin/ eliptical/ run thing really regularly. 
>> Today I decided it was time to go swimming. So after donning my soft 
>> black trunks with the palm trees, purr,  I dove in and my oh my! The temp 
>> was a far too warm 85 and having no soap, I figured I would get in some 
>> laps. I feel that I am a cardio monster as I have told you before as on 
>> land I can go for days. The pool kicked my butt. I did fourteen all-out 
>> sprints as hard as I could go with nine or ten being freestyle and the 
>> other two or three being fly. I was sucking air bigtime and have much 
>> work to do. I did more cardio on land after, I just did not yet have the 
>> wind for more water and frankly I was getting a little discouraged.
>> My stroke is smooth and fairly graceful, swimming is about the only 
>> graceful thing I do, but I felt really heavy. Is this because my body has 
>> bulked up more than it used to be? This was a decent initial day and a 
>> great learning experience. I have much work to do if I am to defeat my 
>> superior opponent.
>> Kelly, tell us about in-water cardio being different than land cardio 
>> when you have time please. I had forgotten how different the exercises 
>> are.
>> "Poor men wanna be rich" "Rich men want to be king" "And the king ain't 
>> satisfied til he rules everything" Springsteen Badlands
>> JSNM
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