So seeing as this is the fitness board, not just the lifting weights board

so seeing as this is the fitness board, not just the lifting weights board

how good is your cardio?

Great, im on a swimming team so I train at least 3 to 4 days a week.

>tfw only concept of swimming times you have is from the olympics

what are good times for normal swimmers

Once a week

i mean times like how many seconds or minutes it takes you to swim 400m or whatever distance

Depends what level you're competing at man. I wouldn't get too hung up on numbers, just give it your all and try to beat that time next round.

I've been going for distance mostly. Last year I couldn't swim freestyle 50m without stopping, now I'm doing 1500-2000m pieces nonstop. It's a good feeling overcoming your body's weaknesses. It's also god tier cardio, and is great for asthetics. If you don't swim, you should learn how.

I've been a bicycle road racer for 8 years, and tomorrow morning I'm part of a 4-man time-trial team at a district championship event.

Wish it was better, started working out and getting my life in check about 9 days ago and did some cardio today and had to stop after 26-28 min of the Cardio X thing from P90X

In the wrestling season it's everyday. Off season you gain a ton of weight afterwards but it's mostly muscle. I got injured and had to start all over.

So far have now been trying to make a 2 mile run 3 days a week

>I'll start my cardio tomorrow I swear
For months I've been telling myself this

that's pretty cool my man, how do you fit lifting weights in with cycling or do you just do cycling?

Most lifting in the late fall/early winter while riding easy, mostly riding the rest of the time. You train for the requirements of your sport.

just quit smoking after 20 years + sedentary job.

cardio not so good senpai

can light jog 1/8 mile before gasping. 1/4 mile i feel like puking/dying.

hoping i'll get there...

How do you learn to swim by yourself?

Like I can swim, but how and where do I learn proper technique to get better?

Bump.
Also want to learn different techniques but dont have a coach to tell me how my form is or what breathing techniques i should do. Ive tried youtube but some things just feel like im doing them incorrectly.

Also, i swam 500yds in 10:47 couple days ago, is that good? I cant really find average swim times on the web.

Basically for me I grew up kinda knowing how to swim and handle myself in the water because of like summer camps and shit but I couldn't actually swim.

I asked one of my friends who happens to be a very strong swimmer, he took me to the pool one day and taught me the basics, and from there I swam every single day until I could swim freestyle pretty much indefinitely.

For me a lot of it was self correcting, watching some YouTube videos on technique here and there helped a lot, but mostly just mastering the basics once I learned them and self correcting during my daily swims. You can feel when you're moving efficiently and when you're wasting energy so a lot of it will just correct itself, but you're gonna swallow a lot of water and spend a lot of time in the pool.

Glad as fuck that I did it though

25:53 5k. Shaved off 22 seconds from my previous. I've got a race in a week and want to try to get sub 25 if I can.

11s 100m at 95kg, stopped doing endurance running (It's boring and bad for you) after I started lifting weights but I can play a full game of rugby so I'd say it's decent

Lifting DOMS really makes it hard to do cardio though, gives me much more appreciation for how hard athletes work

>does sprints
>claims endurance is bad

It's actually the other way around. It's the reason most athletes have at age joints at 30. Sprinting is high impact.

mostly endurance is just boring

I ran a half marathon (before I lifted) and didn't enjoy it, it hurt, i was cold and hungry and my thighs chafed like shit so I had to walk like a frog for a day or two after.

HIIT work gives you all the cardiovascular ability for anything you could ever need except for if you want to specialise in long distance endurance.

I like distance running. HIIT doesn't work the slow twitch muscles as much as endurance running. You under estimate the importance of being able to run several miles as an even pace.

I'm up to 8 miles running at a ~7mph clip, which is by far the best cardio shape I've ever been in. Hoping to do a half marathon in the fall, maybe a marathon next year.