Hello guys, what do you all use to track your swimming performance?

No one uses swim.com?

Yea true, all the swimming watches are really expensive. The cheapest option is only Pebble watches that can link to Swim.com.

After three months of swimming about 3~4 times a week, started with only 350M each session... Now i can finally swim at least 700M per session without stopping! I am using Garmin Swim to track. Really happy that I have made this a habit, can feel my body starting to tone and I sleep better, feel more confident about myself generally! I don't get headaches/migraine so often anymore! Problem is I haven't really lost weight cause never control my diet. LOL! But most of my clothes and pants are starting to become really loose.

For those who are about to start swimming, take that first step. It's gonna be hard in the beginning, your heart is going to pump so fast like you are going to die and your muslces will be sore. But it will be worth it in the end, just keep doing it and don't give up!

Thanks!

I swim after my work so usually I don't have time to swim for one full two hours. LOL I usually get so tired and won't be able to wake up the next day even if I sleep early that day. Perhaps I need to train further. But I like swimming instead of jogging because I fell down in high school and busted my knees. Now I couldn't really do land sports without feeling slight pain on one of my knees so swimming is my to-go exercise. I did read about all the articles swimming vs jogging. While jogging burns more calories, I like the fact swimming tones your entire body instead of just one part of it.

I am using Speedo. They are more expensive. I use it everyday and it doesn't go out of shape. I am using the "endurance" series which is supposed to last, according to their USPs. But I am not sure about male's swim wear because I am not very sure if you are aware that I am not male.

Garmin Swim can get from here, in the garage sales, just search for it. It's about RM600 by the way.

That's really good! Congratulations!
Though swimming actually makes me tired because I push myself faster and faster. It's a good sports, low impact and all.

Not really, more like i like it when my heart is pumping!
But i am just really glad that I pick up swimming again after for so long. I am trying to reserve the aging effect by exercising instead of relying on chemicals!

Sorry about my typo, it's actually reverse, I wrote reserve instead. Nope. i didn't just start learning to swim, my parents made me and my siblings learns swimming since very young. And in the primary school i used to swim for districts, so i used to train like everyday and then my parents made me stop during puberty and i started gaining weight like crazy. Since i have shifted to the condo, also in the food industry I am working in, and not forgetting the slowing metabolism, I decided to pick it up again. One good thing about my condo is that the management controls the cholorine amount in the pool, they put lesser than those public pools.

This post has been edited by miyakochan89: Jun 26 2015, 11:52 AM

Haha! the competitive swimmer was a long long long long loooooooooooong time ago. After I stopped, i immediately gained so much weight and very hard to even catch up to that speed anymore. And now it's freaking hard to lose those fats, have to rely on diet really. 30% exercise and 70% diet.

That's the reason I stay in the condo in the first place. the facilities are all in place. xD

To be honest, when I weigh myself, the scale doesn't seem to drop, but the changes on the body is very obvious, like it's more toned. Also, when you wear your clothes, that one you will know cause things are looser. Most importantly is that you will feel healthier and more confident. That feeling is awesome!

I have started taking coconut oil, two spoons in the morning. Apparently it helps to fight abdominal fats which is very hard for me to lose them because I am a woman and apparently we are genetically designed to have more fats on that area to protect babies. That's according to a few articles i read online and also my colleague who works as part time trainer. So she recommended me trying coconut oil. Besides that, it really has lotsa other benefits!

Diet is so hard to control honestly, haha! I couldn't stop my craving but I did cut off rice from my diet. And also I eat late, because after swimming, it's already about 8PM. And also I work in fast food industry! Haha!

I am glad that you all are starting to work out again! Keep us updated of your progress!

I don't like weight training cause I know I won't keep up with it. HAha! I used to want to jog to lose weight but after a few days I gave up. Then I realized it's because I hate the activity so much. I love swimming and it's easier to make it a habit than jogging. I think swimming also builds muscles, no? It's a whole body workout and as far as I am concerned, weight training or not, I am swimming about 4KM per week, it might sound very less to some people but at least I am not a couch potato! And I am increasing the distance slowly. Used to be able to do 2KM per week only

Used to do so much swimming per week 2~3 years back. Now I need to pick up the pace again. Kinda dreading the initial suffer and pain. lmao.

Cause it's the best sports ever.

Oops my secret has been revealed!

Anyone has contacts for swimming lesson around Klang Valley area? My own place has pool. I am not a beginner. I just want to pick up and polish up freestyle.

Thx.

Havent swam since forever, actually since corvid started.

They never clean the pool? Probably they don't clean as often anymore since always lockdown here and there.

aiyo. I really want to swim again.
It's the only exercise that makes me lose belly fat really fast.
Now im doing consistent walking and some cardio mixed in also cannot lose belly fat that fast in a month!!! :<

walao. Haven't swum for almost 2 years now!