Training - Friday July 27

150m front crawl
50m breaststroke
200m kicking w/ fins
4 X 25 - underwater fast w 1:30 in between
4 X 25 - underwater slow w/ 10, 9, 8 ,7 breaths before lap 50 m cooldown kicking w/ fins

Wednessday - July 25

6am pool session ymca


150m front crawl
50m breaststroke
200m kicking w/ fins
4 X 25 - underwater fast w/ 10 breaths in between
2 X 25 - underwater slow w/ 10, 9 breaths before lap
100 m kicking with fins

Training - Monday July 23

6am Pool session at the YMCA:

150m front crawl
50m breaststroke
200m kicking w/ fins
4 X 25 - underwater fast w/ 10 breaths in between
4 X 25 - underwater slow w/ 10, 9, 8 ,7 breaths before lap

Back..... again, ;)

OK so, this is a bit rediculous but I'm finally back in action, although I've moved to Calgary, Alberta and I'm moving this blog on over to www.freshairfiend.blogspot.com.

See you all there!

BACK

Wow, what a layoff. I've been doing mostly scuba diving through the summer to now. While I've been doing some swimming and whatnot there hasn't really been any concerted effort to train.

Starting today I'm back in the groove. Went for a 15 minute run this morning and will hit the pool this afternoon, and the tables tonight.

Planning to attend a freedive trip to bluesprings December 10,11 organized by conner off deeperblue so need to get the lungs back for that.

Run, Monday April 25, 2005

Went for a 12 minute run this morning was nearly a mile.

Rest, Sunday April 24, 2005

I was still recovering from the flu/seasickness on sunday so spent most of the day resting, and eating whatever small snacks I could get down without feeling too sick!

Freediving, Saturday April 23, 2005

The day started at the FIU pool. Martin ran us through some basic stretches which was excellent as I haven't stretched properly in years. After that quick warmup we hopped in the water to do statics. I supervised my buddy while he did his statics and after a half hour in the pool with only a 3mm shortie I was cold.

I started my statics with a 1:30, 2:30 and 3:00 minute warmup. My last static I had hoped to go to 4:00 minutes but unfortunately I quit early. My buddy started the signals a half minute early so I couldn't decide if I was at 3:45 or 4:00 already. Erring on the side of caution I came up at 3:45.

After finishing our static warmup we left to meet at the boat. We met at the hillsborough inlet boat ramp at 2:30 and after a quick load took off for the gulf stream. The wave action looked fine when we got there, but the wind was picking up.

We got into the water and started with 4 pulldowns, one to each of 5m, 10m, 15m, 20m. It seems like my comfort in the water is limited to about 1 minute as each of the 4 pulldowns was to about that time. Definitely something to work on!

With the water action picking up and nausea setting in for me we started practicing counting our kick cycles to 10 and 20 m. I managed 3 dives to 10m for 10, 7 and 6 kick cycles but was feeling more and more nauseous everytime. On my first dive two 20m which should have been 7 kick cycles to 10m and 7 smaller to 20 m my mask came off underwater. On the next dive I bailed at 10m as I was feeling really sick and my ear was sticking.

I waited while the others finished their dives and while we pulled up the ropes, had a small bout of seasickness and got back on the boat. The ride in was manageable, and I felt better for having emptied my stomach into the ocean.

All in all it was an excellent learning experience. I recommend the performance freediving course (link above) to anyone with an interest in freediving.

Freediving, Thursday April 21, 2005

Went out with Gary at 3pm out of the 15th street boat ramp. We cruised over the shelfs just off of sloppy joe's but the vis looked terrible. We decided to hit the second reef balls. There was a snorkel boat anchored and a dive boat moored to the balls when we got there so we tied off. Visibility was a good 30 feet, but somewhat murky. Spence and I hopped in immediately while gary collected his gear.

Upon entering the water we came across a school of grunt with some yellowtail snapper and a trumpet fish mixed in. We swam around for a half hour until spence was ready for a break.

He handed me my weight belt and I did a series of about 5 dives to 30 feet. Today I was working on looking back instead of down, focusing on good technique for the dive.

After doing those dives spence was warmed up so we got back in and swam around some more. After another 20 minutes or so he was cold again. I went back to working on my dives and exploring the reef. After another 30 minutes or so of diving the waves were picking up and we were all ready to head in.

Swim, Thursday April 21, 2005

Frontcrawl - 2o laps - aprx 400m 15 minutes
Breaststroke - 15 laps - aprx 300m 12 minutes
Fins on - 15 laps - aprx 300m 12 minutes

total 1km in 39 minutes

CO2 Training Tables, Tuesday April 19, 2005

Apnoe Trainer settings
Intro 120 sec
Breath hold (max) - 75 sec
Increase hold by - 0 sec
initial rest time - 120 sec
Decrease rest time by - 10 sec
Loops 8

This was no problem will increase the max hold to 90 seconds on next go round.

Swimming, Tuesday April 19, 2005

frontcrawl 20 laps - aprx 400m - 15 minutes
breaststroke 15 laps - aprx 300m - 10 minutes
Freediving Fins 12 laps - aprx 240 m - 8 minutes

Totals 940m in 33 minutes.

o2 Tables, Monday April 18 2005

Apnoe trainer settings
Intro 180
Breath hold max 180
Increase hold time by 15
Initial rest time 120
decrease rest time 0

1:15 - No Problem (np)
1:30 - np
1:45 - np
2:00 - np
2:15 - np
2:30 - np
2:45 - 5 or 6 contractions
3:00 - Session Interupted will redo this table later this week.

Swim

20 laps front crawl - aprx 400m - 15 minutes
10 laps breaststroke - aprox 200m - 8 minutes
10 laps with fins - aprox 200m - 7 minutes

Decided to add breast stroke in case i do some no fins training. Bailed on last 10 laps with fins due to sore ankle.

Training Plan Week of April 18 2005

Monday
- Swim 25 laps front crawl 25 laps with fins
- O2 Tables

Tuesday
- Swim 25 laps front crawl 25 laps with fins
- CO2 Tables
- Apnea swimming in PM if Lydija is home to supervise

Wednessday
- Swim 25 laps front crawl 25 laps with fins
- Apnea walking

Thursday
- Swim 25 laps front crawl 25 laps with fins
- 02 Tables
- Supervised apnea pool practice

Friday
- Swim 25 laps front crawl 25 laps with fins
- C02 Tables

Saturday
- performance freediving open water clinic

Sunday
- performance freediving open water clinic