Sunday PM: 400m Swim at the Gorbals Swimming Pool Glasgow. 2 x 200m sessions
Was starting to feel a bit stiff in the legs and back after my 4K on Saturday so decided to go for a swim to see if I could loosen up a bit!
Gorbals Swimming Pool is the choice for me as it has a nice 25m pool that usually has lanes set aside for swimmers while the other half is left for the leisure swimmers. It also has a nice Jacuzzi so is perfect for the routine that I did.
All I can do is front crawl. Managed the first 50m without needing to stop. took a 2 min break then swam a length (25m) then took a break, then a length as so on. At 8 lengths, I was struggling to complete a length so took a big break. Distance so far 8 x 25 = 200m
20 mins in the Jacuzzi - bliss!
Time for my second swim. Same format as before. Do length... break... do a length... break and so on. I was really struggling particularly at the 3rd and 4th lengths, so was taking more like 5 min breaks after each length, but I was determined to do the 400. I was hoping to do 500 but this was not to be. As I reached the ladders at the end of the pool, I knew that there was no way that I was going to manage another 4.
Time for another jacuzzi. Unsurprising even better than the first. It was getting to the end of my session so when the jacuzzi was switched off (they do that every 30 mins), decided to call it day.
According to Swimming.Org's Calorie Cruncher, 30 mins of front crawl will burn 257 Calories. I would recon on my having done approximately 30 mins of actual swimming so will claim this for the win!
Comparing to another chart I found at a website called Nutri Strategy, this was comparable to a leasurly swim for 30 mins for a person at my weight.
It certainly didn't feel leisurely but I definitely left the pool feeling a bit more relaxed and loosened up and managed to add to my training and burn off some calories!
Mission Accomplished!
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