What are the differences between swimming in the sea with neoprene and swimming in the pool? Alex Imbernón tells you in this post.
How about friends of #Feedyourdreams? How are you? I had not visited your blog for a long time, but you already know that the good is always waiting ... :)
And more knowing that many of you have already begun to see you for the Mediterranean waters enjoying your neoprene wanting to release it for some and wanting to get it again for others.
Thanks to nadaconentreno.com (training group
Open Water In Alicante) I can talk a lot with open water swimmers and at this time the key question they asked us was: What are the differences between swimming in the sea with neoprene and swimming in the pool?
Well, there is no better way to solve this question that I know that many of you asked you, to explain
The 5 differences between swimming in the sea and swimming in the pool:
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Neoprene suit vs. Swimsuit: It is one of the largest differences that exist between swimming in the sea and swimming in the pool at this season heights. It is evident that according to the type of swimmer you are, you will be better or worse to carry neoprene, but what is clear is that the neoprene to any swimmer who throws himself to swim to the sea It provides buoyancy.
It also gives you, everything must be said, a good shoulder pain. With the neoprene more weights and your propulsion in the water is greater than when you are in the pool. That is why we recommend going out to the sea as soon as possible to adapt to your new body since many of you premiered the neoprene in competitions and at 500 meters you cannot even move from muscle fatigue that is having all your back-lumbar zone. That is why, do not make this mistake because you can throw away the competition that you have prepared for so long. For those who have the sea nearby, go to the sea and for those who do not have attempted use the neoprene in the pool or swim with a beach swimsuit. Yes, a bermuda of these that you put to go to the beach that you do not like to swim or even short running pants. Try it and you put a comment how it has gone. Have you simulated this exercise of swimming with Bermuda in the pool to when you swim in the sea with neoprene? We refer to that sensation of load.
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Very cold water vs. warm water: You will not want sea water to be like pool water, right? Man, I signed it but how beautiful this sport has is that I know nothing in a natural environment where water evidently cannot be regulated and this makes us now swim with water at approximately 12ºC. What causes us? Well hypothermia. At first we will be cold throughout the body but as soon as you take 500 m that feeling will disappear and you will feel your face and your body again :) But when does the real problem come? When you have 4 kms, the joints begin to take its toll. Your hands can see that you cannot close them and you will not be able to take water to advance so it will cost you more to travel the desired distance and your feet can virtually not move them. In short, you will upload the rhythm, not because you want but because your body does not leave you. All this, obviously, is due to the hypothermia that your body is suffering. So ... what can we do to avoid it? Because unfortunately there is only one: go out to the sand and try to raise the temperature of these joints by moving them and heating them.
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Sea waves vs. flat water: Another of the big differences between swimming in the sea and swimming in the pool is the waves. As I said before, we are swimming in a natural environment so the waves plays a key role in our competitions. Because? As Alejandro Sanz said with his song "It's not the same", it is not the same to swim in pool without waves where your swim technique is 100%, you are comfortable, without wave brake, fast and fast like a dolphin, to swim in the sea, where you technique is 60%, you are uncomfortable because you know that you are not browsing well and this is not right. In addition, the neoprene suit makes you all this you add the muscle fatigue that your body is suffering and your mind says: 'I want to get out of the water! What do I do here when I could be in the pool swimming quietly? ' Ah dear swimmer, who said that swimming in the sea was easy? Are you understanding the post title? Go swimming to the sea now! And best of all, we still have 2 more differences ...
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Little swim visibility vs. Great visibility: When you thought that everything was already said, we have to continue adding a very important sense in the human body, sight. Have you tried to swim with your eyes closed in the pool? Try it and tell me how many times you have collided with the corchera and how insecure you are. And it is that in the sea you do not have some appropriate glasses You are not going to see a pepper and this makes you that while a swimmer arrives in a straight line to the buoy, your afternoons 30 S more because you do not see where you want to go. This has happened to me and anyone who has swam at sea. It is the typical mistake or novatada you can solve buying good glasses Polarized And of course throwing the liquid Anti-Frog Before going to swim. You will see that with these two tips your visibility you will gain a lot and at least you can see where you are going, which is the important thing.
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Swimmers' overwhelming vs. swim in a street: Here comes other of the great differences of swimming in a pool to swim in the sea. And as they say colloquially "the rubbing makes the love" and in this case, in the open waters it is not precisely darling what we receive at an exit of 1500 swimmers like Tabarca-Santa Pola, but once the position is taken, we do know that we have to know tactically the race. This is where the love of going in a group comes. To me personally I come from triathlon, it reminds me a lot to go in a road bike grupe. We must give relay, rhythm changes and finally, we have to be well placed to endure the entire distance. In pool the only concern we have is to arrive in the least time possible, since there are no external factors that harm your final time. It is you against you of the past.
Conclusion
What are you waiting for to react and use these tips? I remind you that your triathlon and journey season is just around the corner.
But there is good news and it is that
You are still in time to react, So go out to sea with your neoprene and suffer a little with him on, he trains in the pool with a bermuda that makes you feel counterweight, buy polarized glasses, put them anti-Frog before putting you into the sea and finally trains the tactics in the sea.
Tips that I am sure they will help you be a better open water swimmer.
I take this opportunity to inform you for all those swimmers of open waters or triathletes who want to improve aspects such as all commented, nadaconentreno.com organizes on April 23 and 24 in Altea a open water training campus where we will work all these aspects. Here we leave you info: http://bit.ly/1qqlzxi
And for those who want to feel identified with an experienced swimmer who knows all the above commented on the article very well, I recommend the interview we conducted to
Jorge Crivillés, who conquered nothing more and nothing less
Triple crown Last year. This phenomenon does know what it is really suffering cold water. Of course, on neoprene you cannot advise you, since it never uses, even in December. Click here to read the interview: http://bit.ly/1s1by5e
Until next swimmers!
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