This weeks training has gone well, my POWERbreathe work has come along strongly this week and I’m really feeling better for it. I feel a lot more in control of breathing in and out whilst under demand when I’m exercising, particularly for swimming. I’ve been doing a lot of pilates this week and again I’m …
Category Archive: Swimming
Sep
07
Samuel Dallimore Week 10: POWERbreathe out of the pool
This week I haven’t managed to get in the pool unfortunately and so I’ve had to compensate my training with increasing other areas to continue the progression I’ve seen. Importantly keeping up the POWERbreathe training at resistance 3 is very important for fitness and breathing function. I find that with the increased resistances such as …
Sep
01
Samuel Dallimore Week 9: POWERbreathe and rock climbing
Its been a good week for strength training this week, with a good session of 1.5 hours of intensive rock climbing at my local leisure centre with a frriend who was an experienced climber. As egos do, the competition got going, seeing who could climb a certain wall or part with the least number of …
Aug
10
POWERbreathe Trial – Samuel Dallimore Week 7: My best blog yet
This week has gone very well, with a great mixture of training environments, swimming, gym, weights and Pilates Classes. Continuing from the previous week, I have further embraced these training methods and I’m starting to feel the benefits more and more as time goes by. As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I had …
Aug
03
POWERbreathe Trial – Samuel Dallimore Week 6: Back into the water
This week has been one of the best weeks training in a long time, I really feel that things are starting to get back to the way they were. I would say it’s more mind than body at the moment, in that I mean I am getting the correct mindset and routine back that I …
Jul
27
POWERbreathe Trial – Samuel Dallimore Week 5: Back into the water
After a disrupted schedule last week due to an ear infection i’m getting back into training in and out of the pool. I swam last night properly for the first time in a while due to having to be out of the water until my ear had cleared up, we call it “swimmers ear” as it’s …
Jul
20
POWERbreathe Trial – Samuel Dallimore Week 4: Ouch ear infection
My training routine has been interrupted this week with last minute changes in schedule and an unexpected ear infection, but as all athletes experience from time and time, you will run into problems. I had certain goals I wanted to achieve this week such as introducing alternate training methods such as rockclimbing, free-weights and increasing …
Jul
12
POWERbreathe Trial – Samuel Dallimore Week 3: Resistance level 3 woohoo
I’ve progressed well this week and I’m now at resistance 3 on the performance plus model, to feel improvement in breathing strength already has surprised me alot but I’ve stuck to the routine of using my powerbreath twice a day and I think this is obviously the direct result of this. My fitness has continued …
Jul
06
POWERbreathe Trial – Samuel Dallimore Week 2: Getting into the swing of things
This week I have been continuing on my progress in and out of the pool. Weights and core resistance work in the gym and then lots of hypoxic exercises in the pool. Hypoxic exercises in the context of swimming training involves lots of breath holding and having to swim whilst doing so. It can be …
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