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Posted: **Tue Mar 08, 2016 12:22 pm**

TheCatt wrote:
And it felt like I was swimming naked so that was fun.
Less drag in the suit... although, probably not in your case. :p

"My eyes! The goggles, they do nothing!"

Posted: **Tue Mar 08, 2016 2:13 pm**

TheCatt wrote:
And it felt like I was swimming naked so that was fun.
Less drag in the suit... although, probably not in your case. :p

Well tight suit or loose, there's still my monster dong to take into consideration. The local university came in and asked if they could do hydrodynamic studies on how I was able to move it through the water at all, and I was all like "Fuck off, busy."

Posted: **Tue Mar 08, 2016 2:15 pm**

there's still my monster dong to take into consideration

That's a weird name for your tamagotchi.

Posted: **Thu Mar 10, 2016 9:37 pm**

How many calories do you reckon you burn swimming a mile?

Take into consideration the drag caused by a monster dong.

Posted: **Thu Mar 10, 2016 11:05 pm**

GORDON wrote:Take into consideration the drag caused by a monster dong.

You swim with energy drinks on you?

I figured you'd be on the test crew for the new cock flavour.

How much time you do take to swim a mile?

Posted: **Fri Mar 11, 2016 7:53 am**

Malcolm wrote:
GORDON wrote:Take into consideration the drag caused by a monster dong.
You swim with energy drinks on you?

I figured you'd be on the test crew for the new cock flavour.

How much time you do take to swim a mile?

The one time I actually timed myself it was over 45 minutes, then I learned what a shitty time that was, and that's when I started looking into correcting my stroke. The last couple workouts I just assumed it was a mile because I was swimming the same amount of time, but not counting laps, just going nonstop and trying to correct my form.

So, call it a shitty 45 minutes.

I actually noticed a sign yesterday on the bulletin board for private swim lessons, I might see if there's an actual coach available.

Also I weighed 209.4, this morning. Back on track. Also the lowest I've weighed in probably 10 years. I remember being 202 when my kid was born......................... and then I stopped working out.

Posted: **Fri Mar 11, 2016 8:13 am**

I dunno... depends on how hard that 45 minutes is for you. I guesstimate around 10-12 calories / minute.

Posted: **Fri Mar 11, 2016 8:19 am**

TheCatt wrote:I dunno... depends on how hard that 45 minutes is for you. I guesstimate around 10-12 calories / minute.

Word.

With the new stroke there's lots of pain and suffering, and we decided that pain and suffering = more calories burned, right?

Posted: **Fri Mar 11, 2016 9:40 am**

GORDON wrote:
TheCatt wrote:I dunno... depends on how hard that 45 minutes is for you. I guesstimate around 10-12 calories / minute.
Word.

With the new stroke there's lots of pain and suffering, and we decided that pain and suffering = more calories burned, right?

Yes, the less efficiently you swim, the more calories for same distance

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2016 9:02 am**

GORDON wrote:I guess I have a pretty effective pool workout, because 37 laps in 50 minutes was really fucking easy. I could have done another mile if I had the time and notion.

Did 36 laps in 41 minutes this morning.

I'm pretty sure I actually did 38 laps, I lost count a couple times.

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2016 9:12 am**

GORDON wrote:
GORDON wrote:I guess I have a pretty effective pool workout, because 37 laps in 50 minutes was really fucking easy. I could have done another mile if I had the time and notion.
Did 36 laps in 41 minutes this morning.

I'm pretty sure I actually did 38 laps, I lost count a couple times.

Nice! BIG improvement!

I need to get back to the pool. I've only been biking lately.

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2016 9:31 am**

I think my arm stroke is a little better than before, and this time I knew I had to step up the pace a little bit, since I now know my lollygag pace is shitty.

I am also figuring out that I need to kick harder, all the time. I had been doing these little gentle kicks like pretty butterfly wings, and I'm pretty sure when I kick harder I go faster. So I need to start using the leg muscles a little but more, too. I have to keep reminding myself to kick harder, it isn't habit yet.

ALSO..... after the flip turn, when under water, my body finally figured out how to do that weird dolphin kick, so I'm getting like 3 more feet off my flip turn. I honestly don't know if that is better than coming up earlier and starting the arm strokes, but I see Olympians on youtube staying down a long time, so I guess I should emulate.

Plus there's the speedo jammer shorts. Keeps the hog penned up and in place and not acting as a sea anchor.

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Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2016 9:39 am**

GORDON wrote:Took a day off the workout and took my kid to the pool instead... I need to assess his skillz and get him ready for scuba lessons in April. He did 4 laps like he needed to, I just need to work on his strength, water confidence, and lung capacity, now. I had him fetching a 5lb rubber ball from the deep end until his lips were purple.

BTW last weekend my kid fetched 3, 5-pound ball weights from the bottom of the pool, and brought them up, at the same time.

He weighs like 60 pounds. It's impressive.

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2016 9:43 am**

GORDON wrote:Losing weight and lifting hard: dropping body fat and gaining muscle mass, the numbers have intersected and I am now squatting my own body weight.

The day I posted this, I did 3 sets on the squat sled of 220.

Yesterday I did 3 sets of 320.

Woot.

Posted: **Sun Apr 03, 2016 4:35 pm**

I got an underwater camera for the upcoming scuba stuff...

http://www.amazon.com/DBPOWER....PAH9AJA

It came with a ton of different mounts for a car, bike, helmet, tripod, etc.

But I wanted to <s>play with it</s> practice with it a bit to figure out how it worked.

Got some pretty good video with it.

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<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" />
<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" />
</object>

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Whenever I get those ball weighs out of the storage locker, half the fucking kids in the pool come over and want to play... and they don't ask, they just take. That little turd in my shot was one of them. My son would have been in the shot but instead that little turd was.

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Posted: **Mon Apr 04, 2016 8:24 pm**

Speaking of regrowing cartilage, I started doing free weights for bench press. I have been doing the entire stack on the machine, even adding additional weight when they are lying around close, and I just wasn't feeling the pump when the machine said it was 290 pounds. So one day the bench was clear, I said "fuck it," and started loading plates.

(I haven't done free wight bench in a long time, because of my nerve damage. I haven't trusted my fucked up wrists to not spaz at the wrong time and dump that shit on my chest. But as I said... fuck it)

So I loaded up a couple 45s for 135, and did 12 reps fairly easily... my muscles, well used to just pushing vertically on the machine, were all like, "Whoa what is this lateral movement shit?" It was a little shaky, but pretty easy. So I put on a couple more plates to 185, and was able to push out 8 reps FAIRLY easily, but without a spotter, and with still not being steady, I didn't want to push it too hard. I did another set of 8, then bumped it back down to 135 and did 12, and called it good.

DAMN were my triceps pumped, compared to the machine.

I did the same thing again this morning, feeling a little more steady. And now to the point of this story: Remember months ago, I said I had some weird pain in my right shoulder that I was working through, and eventually it went away? Well it's back, baby. Yeah.

Also my fucked up nerves... when I do a press, the right side of the bar is like 8 inches from the support peg, and the left side is like 3 inches away. My shit wants to go up crooked. Now I gotta fix that, too.

Free wight bench press, just like in the old days. Good times.

Posted: **Tue Apr 05, 2016 4:33 pm**

Today is swim day, and I do like an hour in the gym first and then go swim a mile. ***I just deleted a paragraph about my shitting habits. You're weclome.***

tl;dr - I had a stomach thing happen so my workout got cut in half.

So I decided to swim extra, since I cut my lifting time. I decided to swim a solid hour.

I wasn't counting laps but I did my "40 minute mile" pace, as far as I know. Maybe even faster, because at 40 minutes I was fucking exhausted. I took a 60 second break, caught my breath, let my arms hang limp, and then did another hard 15 minutes... the fucking wheels are falling off. My shoulders are barking. I figure I probably swam 3 or 4 more miles that last 15 minutes.

Posted: **Tue Apr 05, 2016 5:48 pm**

GORDON wrote:I figure I probably swam 3 or 4 more miles that last 15 minutes.

Sounds about right. Think it's too late to qualify for Brazil?

Posted: **Tue Apr 05, 2016 6:45 pm**

TheCatt wrote:
GORDON wrote:I figure I probably swam 3 or 4 more miles that last 15 minutes.
Sounds about right. Think it's too late to qualify for Brazil?

They already turned me down, said I was too leet.

Posted: **Tue Apr 05, 2016 7:35 pm**

Too old for their insurers?

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