Mr Swim Smooth sends out a weekly e-mail. Many of them are good stuff, and this week's e-mail is about the big picture of training rather than some detail of form and technique.
http://www.feelforthewater.com/2012/01/performance-technique-fitness-ow-skills.html
"Are you getting a feeling of deja-vu with your swimming? Doing the same things every year and getting the same old results? In this situation you need to shake things up both from a physical and psychological perspective."
Well...I definitely shook things up with the Master's Swim practice, and my swim is improving quickly. But I need to improve my bike more than anything else, and I definitely need to run more.
Paul and I hit the cross-country ski trail last week. It was pretty good once we got a bit higher and into the real the snow. Amazing...it's the end of January and the snow level is 6,000ft. But it's really good once you get there. Of course, I forgot to prep my feet because it was the first ski of the year, and I got huge blisters right in the same spot as I get them the first ski of every year. These xc ski boots are nice but they really rub on my heels. A bit of duct tape fixes the problem easily; the biggest issue is remembering.
On the bike, I got in four rides last week, and I thought I was finding some consistency there. But Tera is gone this week, so I'm alone with the boys. That timing just isn't working out. Noah is standing now and also crawling around and getting into everything, so he has to be watched nearly constantly. And then like I said in the first paragraph, I just don't recover from the swimming effort very easily.
I do manage to get some consistency in the weight room, and it's showing. The place it shows up the most is on the scale when I weigh-in. Wow! Muscle weighs alot. I'm not huge or anything by any means, but all the shirts that were almost loose last summer are fairly tight now. Pants are tighter too, but that doesn't account for all the weight I've gained. At this point, I'm only a couple pounds from competing in Clydesdale.
My run is non-existent right now. Haven't run in probably three weeks. When I get that going again, alot of this extra weight will come right off.
Paul and I hit the cross-country ski trail last week. It was pretty good once we got a bit higher and into the real the snow. Amazing...it's the end of January and the snow level is 6,000ft. But it's really good once you get there. Of course, I forgot to prep my feet because it was the first ski of the year, and I got huge blisters right in the same spot as I get them the first ski of every year. These xc ski boots are nice but they really rub on my heels. A bit of duct tape fixes the problem easily; the biggest issue is remembering.
On the bike, I got in four rides last week, and I thought I was finding some consistency there. But Tera is gone this week, so I'm alone with the boys. That timing just isn't working out. Noah is standing now and also crawling around and getting into everything, so he has to be watched nearly constantly. And then like I said in the first paragraph, I just don't recover from the swimming effort very easily.
I do manage to get some consistency in the weight room, and it's showing. The place it shows up the most is on the scale when I weigh-in. Wow! Muscle weighs alot. I'm not huge or anything by any means, but all the shirts that were almost loose last summer are fairly tight now. Pants are tighter too, but that doesn't account for all the weight I've gained. At this point, I'm only a couple pounds from competing in Clydesdale.
My run is non-existent right now. Haven't run in probably three weeks. When I get that going again, alot of this extra weight will come right off.
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