Originally Posted by
coasting
swimming sure does build lung capacity. at the end of training sessions, our coach used to make us do underwater swimming and then get out and change so we took turns to beat the longest distance achieved. i was never good at it. the most i managed was nearly 2 lengths of a 25meter pool. one guy nearly made it to 3 lengths.
we did that too. I made 2 1/2 lengths when I was 20. That was the last year I swam. Since then no real swimming until last month. That is exactly why swimming is not as painful now as it was a month ago. It just took a few times back at it to regain form and rhythm. Now just working on swimming 1 1/2 miles without resting and no flip turns (I did some of those this summer in my pool when my wife did not believe that I used to swim)