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Also Working On It 8 years, 3 months agoHi friends, I just figured out how to be here. I’m here.
I have a confession: I’ve had a bad month. In the past month, I’ve gone to the gym once. I normally go three times a week. I got a new tattoo, and I used the healing time as an excuse to not go to the gym. (I think technically you’re not supposed to get a new tattoo all sweaty…) I’ve also…[Read more]
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Also Working On It 8 years, 3 months agoI came across a thing called the Functional Movement Screen to minimize chance of injury when taking on a new sport or workout regime. The FMS assesses balance, strength and flexibility of 7 basic types of movements in order to identify instability or lack of mobility, and corrective exercises to fix them.
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Also Working On It 8 years, 3 months agoWant to have an AS fitness group on Strava? We can cheer each other on, have virtual events together (like a 1k fun-run/walk or whatever we like!) It’s a an app /website you can upload routes and get mileage/elevation for running/biking/swimming, stuff like that.
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I don’t currently do any outdoor fitness and so this doesn’t seem relevant for me right now (?) HOWEVER if a few of you wanna go ahead and start an AS group then I’ll put it the details in an upcoming post and encourage people to join y’all.
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It’s for all type of stuff; doesn’t have to be outdoors or even a distance-related thing, though it does support mileage and route tracking if you want it. You can add like yoga or weight lifting or wtv on it.
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It’s here! https://www.strava.com/clubs/150735
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I don’t use Fitocracy anymore for various reasons, but I created an Autostraddle group there and would be happy to pass on the reins to anyone else who wants it :)
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Yes I would – at the moment I just use Strava to track myself but don’t use any of the social settings!
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So far there’s two of us heh. How about if we get a third, we’ll make a group? For now, feel free to follow me if you like; would be great to have a fellow swimmer who’s also getting back into their workouts to cheer each other on. Massive congratulations to finishing chemo btw. https://www.strava.com/athletes/9995785
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I followed you on strava. I’ve had the app for awhile but haven’t used it yet
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Cool. I think that makes three of us on AS using Strava, so I guess I’ll make a group on there. I’ll post that link here too.
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Also Working On It 8 years, 3 months agoWhat kinds of activities do you all enjoy?
My faves:
– Swimming (although I haven’t been in the pool for AN EMBARRASSING AMOUNT OF TIME)
– Lifting weights
– Running
– Hiking (trail running for the best of both worlds!)
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YUSSS high-five fellow swimmer. Let’s talk shop about swimming. I’m just getting over a shoulder injury so I’m starting to add back weight training. I have a weight-lifting fitness goal to be able to last an hour at the rock climbing gym heh and new to running b/c those tough mudder type events look way too fun! I do some yoga do.
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INJURIES ARE THE WORST
Yay swimming shop talk! What are your strokes? I’m a freestyle/backstroke person myself.
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Back in junior high when i competed i think my best events were back and breast stroke (50-100), and hated freestyle b/c i was so much slower than everyone else, heh. Now that I have more muscle on my frame and just swim for fun, i really like doing I.M.s and freestyle feels a lot better.
Do you have any websites you like for training tips?…[Read more]
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Most of my competitive swimming career was actually in synchronized swimming, heh heh heh… but when I swam for distance in high school it was back and free for me all the way! My breaststroke is laughable and I keep hoping my genetic butterfly technique will show up any day now (my granddad briefly held the butterfly world record, true…[Read more]
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Ah that’s awesome synchronized swimming! We used to horse around in the pool trying to figure out how they suspended themselves in the water with a leg in the air, NOT EASY.
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@Rey Ron Elenbaas. He held the record for like two weeks right after they changed the kick. It used to be breaststroke kick, but he couldn’t do that kick due to a knee injury, so he’d been practicing with dolphin kick already. So once the kick changed, he smoked everyone! ;)
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@Rey also, this is how you keep your legs in the air: http://synchroswim.isport.com/synchronized-swimming-guides/support-scull-water-pressure-drills-for-synchronized-swimmers It is definitely not easy!
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Holy smokes I had no idea that butterfly used to have a frog kick instead of dolphin kick. That blows my mind; going to have to try it. Awesome your grand-dad got a world record like that!
The synch swim methods link is awesome; I love it. I’m gonna try that too lol. Thankfully not too many ppl in the pool early in the morning to see me flounder…[Read more]
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I’m also a swimmer!
My favourite sports / activities are hiking, cycling and swimming and I’m also trying to run because I do like it but it hurts my knees a bit.-
Yaaay!
Have you ever considered doing a triathlon? I kind of want to do one, but I need to get on a bike first. (First step: procure a bicycle…)
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Yes I have actually! It’s actually my fitness goal to do a series of women’s (short) triathlons this (southern hemisphere) summer. They have super mini ones that I think would be perfect for getting into it. The lengths are super doable: the mini tri is a 150m Swim, 5km Cycle and 1.5km Run, and the next level up is 300m Swim, 7km Cycle and 3km Run.
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Yay moar swimmers! Do you know of a good fb group for swimmers or triathlon-ers? I am currently easing myself into running with the vague idea that I could do a triathlon in a few years.
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