Before work Thursday morning it was time for my first crawl training this week.<\/p>\n
Right now it is not one of my favorite sessions since I still am struggling with the breathing but not keep going is not going to help.<\/p>\n
Got to the sportscenter where the pool is before 6.30, was a bit windy but survived outside til they opened.<\/p>\n
Here is what I did:<\/p>\n
Q – Distance 60 min<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
Warm up and drills:<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n 200m breaststroke<\/span><\/p>\n 25m one arm change every 25 m 25m sculling Main set:<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n 50m crawl Cool down:\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/span>2x50m kick with kickboard<\/span><\/p>\n Even if I struggled with my breathing, major improvement was that I was not a sinking stone, my belly was sucked in on auto<\/p>\n Total:<\/i><\/b> 1300m<\/span><\/p>\n I have felt that 5 crawl classes would not be enough for me to get all the knowledge how to crawl.<\/p>\n Crawl coaching<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n Decided that I would also combine with crawl coaching and Friday at lunch I had my first meeting with openwatersimclub.<\/p>\n We had a talk before I got into the water and I said that I had problems with the breathing.<\/p>\n So first I was just going to warm up and I breaststroked. I was told to float a bit after each stroke, felt a bit weird and for me it was not more relaxed.<\/p>\n Then I was going to put my hands in front of my face and put the face under, then just float til I felt that I was sinking then start to \u201dpaddle\u201d with my feet.<\/p>\n Learned that I had to rotate my hips and have my head straight forward and breath on every other crawls. Found out that breath to the left worked best for me.<\/p>\n Tested a dolme, had tried it myself but thought that I would \u201dpaddle\u201d with my feet but they should just be there and then tried crawl.<\/p>\n Using the kickboard was not working for me.<\/p>\n I have to say that this was my calmest training so far. Started to get the hang of the breathing.<\/p>\n In the end I ended up crawling 20m without stress.<\/p>\n So I will take it slower from now on and focus on technique and hips.<\/p>\n Will have my next coaching middle of May<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Before work Thursday morning it was time for my first crawl training this week. Right now it is not one of my favorite sessions since I still am struggling with the breathing but not keep going is not going to help. Got to the sportscenter where the pool is before 6.30, was a bit windy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[266,278],"tags":[281,280,279],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabbychallenge.glundh.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabbychallenge.glundh.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabbychallenge.glundh.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabbychallenge.glundh.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabbychallenge.glundh.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gabbychallenge.glundh.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8241,"href":"https:\/\/gabbychallenge.glundh.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8239\/revisions\/8241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabbychallenge.glundh.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabbychallenge.glundh.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabbychallenge.glundh.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/span>25m one arm change every 25 m
\n<\/span>25m crawl
\n<\/span>25m one change every 25 m
\n<\/span>25m one change every 25 m
\n<\/span>25 m crawl
\n<\/span>25m one arm change every 25 m
\n<\/span>25m one arm change every 25 m
\nStruggled with my breathing<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>25 m crawl
\n<\/span>25m sculling
\n<\/span>25 m crawl
\n<\/span>25m sculling
\n<\/span>25 m crawl
\n<\/span>25m sculling
\n<\/span>25 m crawl
\n<\/span>25m sculling
\n<\/span>25 m crawl
\n<\/span>25m sculling
\n<\/span>25 m crawl
\n<\/span>25m sculling
\n<\/span>25 m crawl
\n<\/span>25m sculling
\n<\/span>25 m crawl
\nStruggled with my breathing<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>50m crawl
\n<\/span>50m crawl
\n<\/span>50m crawl
\n<\/span>50m crawl
\n<\/span>50m crawl
\n<\/span>50m crawl
\n<\/span>50m crawl
\nCalmer with my breathing. Got at the end 3\/4 of the pool before I had to breaststroke. Could crawl 12 times when I got air on every 3rd crawl til I was very breatless and had to continue with breasstroke<\/span><\/p>\n