can you swim?

[AlienCraft]

Yes, and I've saved several people from a drowning as well.
< WSI and Lifeguard, AAU swimmer

 

[azazyel]

went to State in HS. Of course that was a looong time ago. But to this day I feel more comforable in water than on land.

 

[Baked]

Yes, female NE style.

 

[D1gger]

Yes, I worked as a lifeguard during university.

 

[SynthDude2001]

nope

 

[dwcal]

Yes, and I took the lifesaving class in freshman year of college. Never worked as a lifeguard though.

 

[GeekDrew]

Nope, despite many years of lessons... something like 5 years.

 

[Trey22]

Learned how to swim when my father threw me into a motel swimming pool at the age of 6.

 

[GroundZero]

like a freaking fish here

 

[n yusef]

Originally posted by: Yossarian
yeah, I was a lifeguard for a couple years.

 

[notfred]

Yes. I learned to swim when I was about 5. My parents bought a boat when I was about 8, went to the lake a lot, got better. In middle school I started surfing, got even better. I swim pretty well.

 

[JayHu]

Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer
sure can

used to do 40-50,000m a week. no shens

2 hour sessions monday to thur nights, 1 hour on a friday night, 2 hours on a sunday afternoon and 3 out for 4 early morning sessions @ 1.75 hours each

2 hour sessions were roughly 6000m sometimes 7000
hour sessions 3000-3500
hour n 3/4's were 5000 odd

5 2 hours roughly 30k, 3 mornings brings that up to 45k

i did that up n till about 16-17, but got rather bored of it, that type of training has diminishing returns once your 18+. that type of training is more for the 11-16 age range, to give them a strong base on which to build on. from there your supposed to focus specifically on one or two events and train for them, using the fitness gained from all those meters as a base.

made it onto the loughborough uni team this year, but ive since dropped it since my course is more important to me.

Sprinter? 40-50K is sprinter range.

I swim (when I'm not injured) 55-65K a week. Sometimes more.
Dimishing return? Eh, matter of opinion and mental outlook. I've improved alot since 18.