Deep Thoughts and Little Happenings

Good Morning!  I'm going to jump right in. (Pool humor intended.) Turbulence is defined as a violent or unsteady movement of air or water, or some other fluid. Sometimes while I'm swimming I get a lot of turbulence from other swimmers.  Not all swimmers are concentrating on the same goals.  And some swimmers create more turbulence the longer they swim...I'm guessing because they're getting tired. Anyway, a swimmer who is kicking in and out of the water instead of under the water, or one who is thrashing the water with his arms instead of cutting into it, creates turbulence.  It's not just a gentle movement of water around them. What that means for swimmers in the other lanes (me) is a much more difficult swim.  I'm pushed and pulled according to the direction of the swimmer creating the turbulence.  Compensating becomes difficult.  Weaknesses in my stroke become more pronounced and I grow tired much more quickly. There are times I want the other swimme

Good Morning! I'm going to be doing something different for a while...until I'm not. I have been going to the pool for 2 years now.  I was there because I needed the exercise and what I had been doing was hard on the joints.  My therapist and doctors kept telling me to swim and I have an indoor pool available at no extra cost, so I went.  I only walked my laps in the beginning because I didn't really know how to swim.  I previously swam for play and never for long periods of time without interruption. I wanted to learn though, so I began to go online and learn technique and came up with a practice routine that worked.  I would walk 3/4 of the lap and swim the other 1/4.  As I got better, I would swim 1/2 and 1/2.  You get the picture.  Soon I was swimming my entire time, but constantly struggling with breath control. The idea for this blog series began when I learned something that not only drastically changed my time in the pool, but started a journey of lessons th