wannabe
"Insignificant Other"
Hey Gang,
I'm hoping that someone here can help and answer my swim training questions. I was training for a half marathon, and on my 'rest' days, I would just swim with a pool buoy and just do all upper body to make sure that my legs got enough rest. Something just clicked a couple weeks ago. I went from barely being able to swim 25 meters without stopping to being able to swim a half a mile then a whole mile in the span of a week. It was the weirdest thing.
Well, I screwed up and hurt my legs while running this week, so I'm going do be swimming primarily until my legs recover. I have no interest in anything other than freestyle. The question I have is can you swim every day of the week without having to worry about anything, or would I have to take a 'rest' break once or twice a week like I do with running? Or, is it like cycling where the more miles you put on your body the stronger you get?
By the way, in case anyone cares, I've lost 23lbs so far in the month that I've been doing this. I suspect that the added weight and too much running mileage too soon contributed to the leg damage, so I figure that I'll try to swim off some more weight so that there is less stress on my joints when my legs finally recover.
I'm hoping that someone here can help and answer my swim training questions. I was training for a half marathon, and on my 'rest' days, I would just swim with a pool buoy and just do all upper body to make sure that my legs got enough rest. Something just clicked a couple weeks ago. I went from barely being able to swim 25 meters without stopping to being able to swim a half a mile then a whole mile in the span of a week. It was the weirdest thing.
Well, I screwed up and hurt my legs while running this week, so I'm going do be swimming primarily until my legs recover. I have no interest in anything other than freestyle. The question I have is can you swim every day of the week without having to worry about anything, or would I have to take a 'rest' break once or twice a week like I do with running? Or, is it like cycling where the more miles you put on your body the stronger you get?
By the way, in case anyone cares, I've lost 23lbs so far in the month that I've been doing this. I suspect that the added weight and too much running mileage too soon contributed to the leg damage, so I figure that I'll try to swim off some more weight so that there is less stress on my joints when my legs finally recover.