G’day Rebecca,
Good for you getting back to swimming. As well as the stuff I have written on breathing you may want to review my blog on Getting you face under water and All Your Swimming Fears. It should help.
Richard
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This is an additional post on proper head position while swimming freestyle. I know you might be tired of hearing the words “put your head down” while you swim, however, believe me if I tell you, this is the building block of your swimming. Without the proper head position, your stroke will not be as efficient as it could be and you will always work a bit harder and get more tired easier. One other reason I decided to write up one more post about the proper head position in freestyle is the simple fact of repetition and word association. Imagine I was standing on a pool deck and watch you swim and once in a while I’d tell you to put your head down into the water, so you are more streamlined and your legs rise up. After a little while, every time you swim and you just catch the glimpse of me strolling around the pool deck and perhaps watching you swim, a switch in your head will say “ahh, is my head too high? put my head down”, because you associated the trigger words with me. In our case, here on the blog, you do not have me walking around the pool deck to repetitively remind you about the proper head position in freestyle, but if you are following my advice from the previous post you are well on your way and this post can only benefit you.
If you have done all the previous exercises pretending to be a tree log and extended tree log and your legs are still sinking, don’t despair. First, check if your head is in the right position. Don’t be afraid to bury your head down in the water, even let some water go over your head, so you are floating with your head underwater. This should help a little. Second, slightly increase your kicking and this will help to keep your legs up. Also, remember, we are not breathing yet. The exercises are meant to be done only for short period of time to get you used to the correct head position.
When we are on the topic of breathing, before you start floating, take a deep breath, so your lungs are full of air and keep you at the surface without problems, then when you start floating, keep exhaling your air at a very steady slow rate (DO NOT hold your breath in). You will see that it relaxes you more during the floating exercises to slowly let the air out. You will also notice, that you will not be as tight and will very slowly start loosing your buoyancy. When you run out of breath or you think you are starting to sink too much, just stand up and repeat the exercise.
Next step is to learn to take a breath without stopping. So, you are floating on your stomach in the half extended tree log position. This is the same as a regular extended tree log position, except that only one arm is pointing forwards and one arm is at your side pointing backward. Your head is still buried in the water (with the back of your head barely dry or just slightly under water). You are slowly exhaling your air out of your lungs and when is time and you need to take a breath, slowly rotate your body to your side where your arm is extended forward and continue rotating until you are on your back and can take a nice breath. How do you rotate to your back? By using your kick and hips to rotate. So, when you lay on your stomach with your right hand extended, start rotating your left hip up and right hip down, so you can roll to the right side on the extended arm. At the same time adjust your kick slightly to help you with the rotation (very teeny weeny scissor like kick).
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FRIDAY FEB. 25…..9:00 AM…
We’ve received about 18 inches of new snow in the past 24 hours at 7000 feet on the north side of the Tahoe Basin, and it looks as if we have another 18 inches on the way today. The brunt of this cold low pressure system is just about to slam into the Sierra, and snowfall rates should be rising this morning.
Snow levels have started out a little higher than anticipated, and while they are still well below the Tahoe Basin, the snow is not quite as light as originally forecast. The temps should drop as the front moves through today, and the last of the snow tonight and tomorrow will provide a light pillow top above the not-so-bad base that’s piling up now.
We might see some scattered snow showers Saturday with very cold temperatures, 15 to 20 degrees below normal. Overnight lows in Truckee and other mountain valleys will likely be below zero. Perfect for sapping the moisture out of the snow and preserving all of this incredible powder.
Sunday looks like a repeat of last weekend, clear and cold, another bluebird day. It will be warmer than Saturday but highs will still be below normal.
A more typical Sierra storm –warmer and wetter — is still on track for the middle of next week.
Temperature forecasts:
Tahoe City:
Friday 25
Saturday 18
Sunday 31
At 7000 feet:
Friday 20
Saturday 20
Sunday 29
\Regional radar with rain/snow mix:
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