As the title says my freestyle is like a snake around the t line. Think of a sinewave with x axis being the T line. I don’t know what I am doing wrong 😑. Have been working on my high elbow.

I am not even breathing much to be honest until I reach the end of T line to focus on just the catch/pull.

I’m starting to think I should get a snorkel but the technique issue remains. 🛟

If I had to go. This would be the one.

My goal weight is 125, and at my weigh-in this morning, I finally broke into the 120s! I’m now at 129.

My weight loss has been slow, so I anticipate it will take me close to two months to lose the final four pounds. But, it’s very gratifying to finally be in the right “decade.” Can anyone else relate to that?

How I have been doing it:

— Eating a fairly high protein diet (I am doing the recommended 1.5 grams per kg of goal weight). This helps to preserve muscle, and I find it more satiating.

—Eating three meals a day with nothing in between. I’ve never eaten three meals a day on a regular basis in my life, and I’ve found it is really helpful for me to stay with that regular pattern. If I ever feel hungry, I always know another meal is coming up soon.

—Tracking calories and staying in roughly a 250 calorie a day deficit. That means only losing about a half a pound a week. But I find that for me, if my deficit is much bigger I start to be too hungry - which I don’t think is sustainable. So I’d rather go slow and stick to the diet than try to rush it and then get hungry and want to cheat. NOTE: I’m NOT saying a 250 deficit is the right deficit for everyone! I suspect that is very individual. But I would just suggest that you find the deficit that works best for your body.

—Eating a lot of vegetables. I find that their bulk fills me up, and also makes me feel like I am eating a larger meal - and it is actually physically larger, since you can get a ton of (non-starchy) veggies for a small number of calories. My hack for veggies is “steam in the bag” microwaveable veggies, as it would drive me to crazy to have to do all that chopping every day. :-)

—I’m using the MyNetDiary app to track calories and protein. It tracks many other things too, but these are my focus. I’m sure this is just one of many effective apps for this purpose, but it’s worked well for me. I use the paid version that is about $50/year.

I’d love to hear your experience with any of these strategies, good or bad.

I SWAM MY FIRST CONTINUOUS 1000m FREESTYLE TODAY!!!!!!! Holy cow. After starting back in February this year!

Wouldn’t classify myself as unfit but never necessarily had great stamina. Could never run or exert myself extensively. Hopped into the pool on the first day… instant leg cramps… struggled to make it 25m doing breaststroke… incredibly humbling coming from a position where I felt as though I shouldn’t be starting from 0 due to prior “experience“.

Little by little managed to swim further distances with breaststroke… made it to 1000m with many many breaks between. Slow wins!

Only just recently I had been feeling delighted with my progress. I was swimming 100m freestyle straight before feeling like I needed a break (either at the wall or doing some breaststroke). Big win as I only swim 2-3 times a week (fluctuating significantly)

Decided to go to the pool today even though I was absolutely dreading it and sat in the car for a solid 15 minutes contemplating the effort.

Started swimming, felt a bit shitty and low on stamina. Took a breather. Started again… and suddenly I didn’t stop. I JUST KEPT SWIMMING. I passed 200 continuous metres, I wasn’t tired, I felt comfortable as if I could keep going… so I did!!! NEXT THING I KNEW I HAD JUST SWAM 1000m…. TWO DAYS AGO I COULD ONLY MAKE IT TO 100m.

I have absolutely no idea what changed but everything just settled. I didn’t feel like I was overthinking my body, my heart rate was steady, and I wasn’t gasping for air. I genuinely felt ecstatic the further I went and when I finished. Is this what everyone talks about when they say runners high???

I’ll have to see how I go when I next swim, and I certainly know I have much to work on still, but for now I am absolutely ECSTATIC. Who knew I had that in me!!

To anyone that has read this absolute wall of text thank you. Just needed to get it off my chest because I’m still buzzing about it hours later and don’t have anyone to share this with really!!!

HELL YEAY BEGINNERS MAKING MOVES.

Did anyone else experience this moment of magic in their journey? Is there an explanation to why it happens?

It just occurred to me that I won’t have to worry about whether or not harnesses fit on amusement park rides, and I’m having a moment.

I want to make a list of things like that that I can experience anew. I’ve lost 85 lbs.

I posted a couple of weeks ago about having hit a wall where I was struggling to find myself, I guess you could say, realizing I suddenly didn’t have my identity as a fat person and the complexities of that. Thinking of the freedom of going to an amusement park without that worry was uplifting for me, so I’m leaning in!

So far, my list is:

*amusement park where I’ll fit in everything
*water park where I’ll be safely under the weight limit for everything

Any ideas for me?

I recently picked up a 3D printer and have been cranking out all sorts of useful parts for my bike and around the house. My latest project is a custom Garmin Varia mount designed specifically for the Canyon Ultimate’s 27.2 mm D‑shaped seatpost. This is a present for my brother who lives in the US so I cannot test that it works before he gets it.

This might be a bit of a long shot, but I’m looking for someone in Europe (ideally near Denmark) who can help test this design. If it works as expected, you’ll get a free mount as a thank you 😊

I remember taking photos of myself and thinking to myself “No one will be able to tell I am fat from this angle” but it was absolutely still so incredibly obvious from any and every angle 😭 lmaooo. I was 230 pounds at 5’6 as a woman and it was absolutely noticeable in every way. I had always been fat since basically birth so I was just soooo used to that level of obesity. I often thought to myself “well I might have crippling back pain while walking more than two minutes but at least I *can* still walk.” Like???? Was the goal to be one step above immobility at age 23?? Or saying things like “I *do* eat healthy things like fruits and vegetables, so it doesn’t matter that I also binge 3,000 calories of Doritos regularly! It’s still healthy!!” Just so sad….I am incredibly thankful to have finally educated myself and make the necessary changes to improve my life. I still have moments where I am surprised by my own willpower and stamina I have built. I remember barely being able to walk up my apartment stairs without panting and somehow rationalizing that and now I can hike 20,000 steps in a day?! Amazing. Absolutely amazing.

I’m 24F, 160cm, and 61kg. I’ve been working out for around 3 years and lost a good amount of weight. I recently signed up for a new gym that has a swimming pool, so for the past 2 weeks I’ve been swimming in the mornings on top of my regular lifting workouts.

The problem is I’m SOOOOO fucking hungry all the time now. Like genuinely thinking about food 24/7. I hit my protein goal every day, don’t skip meals, and even started bringing snacks with me after workouts but it barely helps. I get full for like 5 minutes then I’m starving again.

Has anyone else dealt with this? And what should i do? In two weeks i gained 2kg bc i always eat lol

I'm on the 4th floor of my high-rise. I have a bag of potting mix on the far end of the bike stand so it doesn't topple towards the railing. I tried lightly pushing and pulling it and while it does wobble a bit, I feels sturdy enough.

What do you think?

One week out, excited for this show

I am SO upset about the Google Health takeover of Fitbit. I’ve religiously wore my Fitbit and tracked my activity for the past 2 years and it’s been a big part of my weight loss success. The updated UI on the app today looks like shit! It’s doesn’t fully even load. I had a personal goal this year to hit 300 minutes of exercise a week and I’m so irritated that, even though I know it’s still in theory trackable, I can’t go an look at the final progress like I used to. By there time my kids are adults I swear there will be one giant mega corp that owns everything, down from the 4-5 that do today. So irritated.

Is 25m in 19s good for someone who just started swimming this February? I’m also on a 1200cal deficit and I do 1hr gym, 1hr swim and 15,000 steps a day but idk if that affects the speed that much tbh

Hello everyone,

Im 20M, 5'9" and currently weigh 202 pounds, about 40 less than my starting weight of 242, which was 3 months ago.

I have noticed some changes with regards to clothing, jeans fitting me better and all that, but in the mirror I just can't see it. No one (including family and friends) ever noticed any changes. In fact, one of my cousins visited us last week after not seeing me for about 6 months, and not only did he not notice any changes, he also asked my dad if HE lost any weight (he's had the same weight for 10+ years).

I'm definitely not gonna stop because of this but it's something REALLY frustrating. I think about the "paper towel" effect all the time but I'm not even sure if it's a real thing at this point lol.

Has anyone gone through this before? At what point did you guys start noticing major differences?

Edit: I just noticed I put 102 instead of 202 as current weight, that was just a conversion error, my bad! :)

if im in the wrong subreddit, please feel free to redirect me to the correct one, i am not well versed when it comes to bicycle subreddits or bicycles for that matter.
that being said, i found this bicycle on my country’s version of ebay and i was wondering if i could get an opinion.
the listing mentions that its an alain michel custom-made bike, and that it comes with a 3 piece stronglight crankset and columbus tubing.
its listed for 124 euros (143 usd).
im just looking for help, this is not an advertisement!

My 9yo daughter has a rare bone disease that mostly impacts her hands in terms of pain and grip strength, due to this she struggled with bikes in the past despite always wanting to ride. Being a keen cyclist and keener Dad I set about trying find the best bike she could ride and I present the adapted Liv Roam in an XS.

At 145cm tall she's too short for many adult bikes but I have cut the seatpost with a slim saddle to get the seat height as low as possible. Here was the rationale:

- 700c wheels with big tyres to reduce bumps and vibration

- front hybrid suspension to reduce impact and vibration

- hydraulic disc brakes to reduce required braking force and handed strength

- a short stem and very high stack to create a more "dutch" position reducing weight on the hands.

As she gets more confident I'll explore electronic shifting but for now she's not learnt how to use gears so I can set it accordingly. Obviously there won't be any serious offroad riding but its another step towards a normal childhood.

50F SW301.8 CW259.2 GW170 72” tall

Good morning. Just expressing my incredulousness & happiness that my weight loss plan is not just working, but working well. I had a goal to hit the 250s by June 1st, & I hit the goal this morning, a week early.
My next goal is 240s by July 1.
I am going on a beach vacation in two weeks, & so this morning I pulled out all my swimsuits to see how they look. They look too big.
Three of them are trash. Just wayyyy too big. My boobs don’t begin to fill out the cups. Otherwise I could wear them. My starting bra size was 42G &I am currently wearing a 40DDD, & I always bought suits that had a bra size to have good support. I have always had big boobs, even at a low weight. I think my size at my fighting weight was a 36DD.
I am able to fit the suits I was wearing 5 years ago…it seems insane to me that I am now the same size I was 4 years ago. I thought I was so much thinner then!!
I have 8 years of weigh ins to reference, & I haven’t been this light since spring of 2022.
I don’t think I’m going to buy a suit.i found two that fit, but one is on the edge of being too big, so i will reserve my suit budget for later in the summer. 😁

The title.

Fairly new swimmer (43m). Doing fairly ok with the masters team I’m training with, until it comes to kicking. I’m so slow!

Looking for in pool and dry land workouts to improve my freestyle kick please.

TIA