this tbh
running is bad for your joints, swimming doesn't ruim them
thats why swimming should be more popular
Most people aren’t Americans who live on a lake like me or have access to a local pool even if they are. Most Europeans don’t have access to pools or water at all. Basically like asking why more people don’t play hockey, because everyone is poor
so is this a lack of money issue, same reason tennis is not popular?
Is it true Europeans don’t have ice or heat in their homes because energy costs are so high? In the US about half my street has their own pool or jacuzzi
>In the US about half my street has their own pool or jacuzzi
The entire street could be obliterated with a single tornado tho, you Black folk build your houses out of cardboard boxes
What does that have to do with anything? I wasn’t mocking euros I was just saying the energy costs if you don’t live on a coast probably prevent a lot of them from swimming
energy is expensive here a pool will cost at least 1€ a day for the pumps running. but quite more and more people get a pool installed.
https://i.imgur.com/LvtOWNg.jpg
in Europe almost every bigger town has a public pool often Olympic size.
unheated outdoor for summer and heated indoor for the cold season.
Price for heated is bit more expensive (thanks to Ukraine) usually between 2,50 and 3€ for 1,15hours you go there change, shower swim 1 hour shower and change. done.
in summer you go to a outdoor public pool a basic not heated one for swimming costs like 3€ for the whole day. or a unlimited card for 1 year 40€
Newer ones heated and with more attractions like slides jumping towers, wave pools cost more like 5-6€ a day.
sadly some of these face the same problems you have, with migrants stealing fighting and littering everywhere.
[...]
this tbh
running is bad for your joints, swimming doesn't ruim them
thats why swimming should be more popular
[...]
so is this a lack of money issue, same reason tennis is not popular?
Your gay knees would explode maybe. My based knees won't because I'm based
I am 40. Knees are great. I run every day. And have done a few marathons. Feels good. But I have proper form (toe to heel) and wear the right shoes (zero drop shoes).
Why do you want it to be? I already have a hard enough time finding a lane before work as it is.
https://i.imgur.com/UtYNv0j.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/XKQ7wqf.jpg
>649
https://i.imgur.com/wR71IH6.jpg
Question for the swim chads:
I'd like to attend an amateur triathlon which is going to happen like a year from now. I've looked up the minimum time requirements and I have to finish the swimming section in 50 minutes. It's 1500 meters. I can swim that much, even with breath strokes but only just barely, so like in 45 minutes. I'd like to have more room to wiggle tho.
So my question is: what should I do to get my time for 1500 meters down to 30 minutes from 45 in a year? Bonus question: what should I do if in general I feel like my breast strokes are faster than my front crawls?
Nah, track and running is literally one of the least aesthetic sports. Swimming is easily one of the best. >look majestic in water >look majestic in a pool
Running won't allow you to show off your body to a large number of people at once, and at whatever capacity you imagine you could: swimming still does it better.
Most people aren’t Americans who live on a lake like me or have access to a local pool even if they are. Most Europeans don’t have access to pools or water at all. Basically like asking why more people don’t play hockey, because everyone is poor
Is it true Europeans don’t have ice or heat in their homes because energy costs are so high? In the US about half my street has their own pool or jacuzzi
>Most Europeans don’t have access to pools or water at all
wtf are you talking about? you couldn't be more wrong
in Europe almost every bigger town has a public pool often Olympic size.
unheated outdoor for summer and heated indoor for the cold season.
Price for heated is bit more expensive (thanks to Ukraine) usually between 2,50 and 3€ for 1,15hours you go there change, shower swim 1 hour shower and change. done.
3 million lakes the vast majotiy of which are in Alaska. The number of lakes by surface area in temperate areas is probably about equal between US and EU
>The number of lakes by surface area in temperate areas is probably about equal between US and EU
Aren't the great lakes bigger than anything in europe?
Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world, and Ontario/Michigan/Huron/Erie are in the top 10. You wouldn't be able to swim those unless you live in the Midwest, and Lake Superior is only accessible from the Upper Peninsula, which is the US equivalent of the Scottish Highlands or Lapland. I can personally vouch for Lake Michigan being popular for open-swimming.
9 months ago
Anonymous
They're also unpleasantly cold for most of the year.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Less of an issue if you're not a little b***h about it
9 months ago
Anonymous
Lake Superior is never warm enough to swim in
No one swims in large lakes because of the waves, they go to small inland lakes without boats
But even then fresh water swimming is like 0.5% of all swimmers, the other 99.5% swims in indoor heated lap swimming pools
Probably because their countries ban porn so they have less deluded ideas about dick size. They have a communal culture so individual shortcomings are less important. They have a culture where communal nudity is more normal then ours.
>They have a culture where communal nudity is more normal then ours.
Absolutely not. You're forbidden of public baths if you have tattoos.
Everybody think men and women are nude in onsen but most :
1. Split women and men
2. Don't allow you to be nude
Japanese culture is one of the most codified and nudity doesn't make exception.
You can watch the most twisted JAVs but not their genitals? How are they comfy with nudity? That's complete bullshit.
Korea banned porn. It's perfectly fine in Japan. No they don't have communal nudity you weirdo. Not anymore than the west.
9 months ago
Anonymous
>They have a culture where communal nudity is more normal then ours.
Absolutely not. You're forbidden of public baths if you have tattoos.
Everybody think men and women are nude in onsen but most :
1. Split women and men
2. Don't allow you to be nude
Japanese culture is one of the most codified and nudity doesn't make exception.
You can watch the most twisted JAVs but not their genitals? How are they comfy with nudity? That's complete bullshit.
I must have hallucinated the onsen and sentos i frequented in tokyo.
I never said it wasnt gender segregated
Probably because their countries ban porn so they have less deluded ideas about dick size. They have a communal culture so individual shortcomings are less important. They have a culture where communal nudity is more normal then ours.
the real answer: there's no diversity over there so all of them have similar size and don't really have to care about it.
yeah they have public baths and social nudity isn't seen as weird. i'm just curious why all the wieners in hentai and eromanga are so much bigger than literally all japs. are they a nation of cucks?
9 months ago
Anonymous
>social nudity isn't seen as weird
social nudity is only seen as weird in USrael and some backwards sandBlack person cultures
wonder who's the weird ones
9 months ago
Anonymous
I guess you're less naked with a foreskin.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Maybe, lost mine at 12 hours old. But never felt weird being naked around other guys
Probably because their countries ban porn so they have less deluded ideas about dick size. They have a communal culture so individual shortcomings are less important. They have a culture where communal nudity is more normal then ours.
[...]
the real answer: there's no diversity over there so all of them have similar size and don't really have to care about it.
Still spouting this nonsense?
Caucasian size from research:
3.7 inches; University of Alberta, Canada; University of Toronto, Canada: http://www.scribd.com/doc/29971609/The-Relationships-Among-Height-Penile-Length-and-Foot-Size
5.1 inches; Department of Urology, St. Mary's Hospital, UK: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1464-410X.2002.02974.x/full
5.2 inches; The Harriet Lane Handbook, John Hopkins University, USA: http://www.jpedhc.org/article/S0891-5245(09)00140-0/fulltext#tbl1
4.9 inches; University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, USA: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8683783
5.4 inches; Tel Aviv-Sourasky Medical Center, Israel: http://www.nature.com/ijir/journal/v12/n6/abs/3900627a.html
4.9 inches; University of Florence, Italy: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11223678?dopt=Abstract
5.3 inches; Italian Society of Andrology, Italy: http://www.falloplastica.net/fp/content/dimensioni-pene.asp?layout=1
5.3 inches; Spanish Society of Andrology, Spain: http://www.pulevasalud.com/ps/subcategoria.jsp?ID_CATEGORIA=102161
5.3 inches; Department of Urology, Jordan University Hospital, Jordan
Asian size:
5.3 inches; Department of Urology, Chosun University, South Korea: http://www.koreamed.org/SearchBasic.php?RID=1020KJU/1998.39.11.1061&DT=1
5.5 inches; Department of Urology, Beijing Medical University, China: http://www.scribd.com/doc/103023459/Chinese-Study-1990
5.3-5.4 inches; Department of Urology, Beijing Medical University, China: http://www.scribd.com/doc/103024071/Chinese-Study-1993
5.3 inches; Department of Urology, Beijing Medical University, China: http://www.scribd.com/doc/104414559/Chinese-Study-1994-3
Black size:
5.3 inches; Department of Surgery, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17191423?dopt=AbstractPlus
Probably because their countries ban porn so they have less deluded ideas about dick size. They have a communal culture so individual shortcomings are less important. They have a culture where communal nudity is more normal then ours.
?
9 months ago
Anonymous
All races have the same average penis size, diverging by .2-.3 inches
9 months ago
Anonymous
This post was on how men in countries with uncensored porn have more insecurity about their dick size
People can't imagine themselves swim. They watch nigs on tv play sportsball and put themselves in the player's shoes. They can't do that with swimming.
>why isn't swimming more popular
Because it's dangerous to swim just after eating, and given that a majority of this board is american and can't put their fork down, there's your answer.
Swimming is great. I swam for 9 years. It was the healthiest I've ever been. Pools and locker rooms are fricking disgusting. Ruined my skin permanently
Because it's awkward to find a place to practice it, unlike running or cycling; looking at the bottom of a pool for hours trying to improve your splits requires a certain level of psychotic dedication beyond running.
swimming is utterly based. >works out entire body instead of just legs >going fast feels way more fun than running. >helps develop pns and proprioception >fat legit just falls off so long as you dont eat after.
t. swimmer
Nah bullshit. Swimming is kino but clearly not for the reasons you enunciated.
out entire body instead of just legs
Yes (but other sports do it too)
fast feels way more fun than running.
No
develop pns and proprioception
No >>fat legit just falls off so long as you dont eat after.
Running cycling football soccer martial arts and lot of other sports do it too.
>running is bad for your joints, swimming doesn't ruim them
Swimming is hard on the shoulders.
Yes
Swimming is for homosexuals, it's ok swimming for enjoyment and fun, it's gay competing
swimming is utterly based. >works out entire body instead of just legs >going fast feels way more fun than running. >helps develop pns and proprioception >fat legit just falls off so long as you dont eat after.
t. swimmer
Everything that blacks do is popular thanks to American cultural influence nowadays. Since blacks don't swim, it's not as popular as it could be. I may sound ironic and mocking, which I actually wanna do, but unironically this also could be true which makes it pretty sad at the same time, lol
only real answer ITT
also access to lap pools in the US is severely limited
i'm in NYC and have no idea where the frick you're supposed to find a pool to swim in unless you join a fricking equinox and pay $400 a month or if you have access to a college gym
rather just be a climbing gym cuckold and pay $100 a month to filter out poors and blacks
I'd like to attend an amateur triathlon which is going to happen like a year from now. I've looked up the minimum time requirements and I have to finish the swimming section in 50 minutes. It's 1500 meters. I can swim that much, even with breath strokes but only just barely, so like in 45 minutes. I'd like to have more room to wiggle tho.
So my question is: what should I do to get my time for 1500 meters down to 30 minutes from 45 in a year? Bonus question: what should I do if in general I feel like my breast strokes are faster than my front crawls?
30 mins is pretty slow already. just swim twice a week and get coaching or join an adult squad. swimming is all technique. Improving your fitness/strength is useless in the water if your form sucks
>what should I do if in general I feel like my breast strokes are faster than my front crawls
that probably means your technique sucks. swimming is 90% form so try to work on that. head down, ass up, glide like a fish. try to swim "downhill" to keep a streamlined position. and also get proper swimwear, loose shorts will drag hard.
also if it's open water, train there as well. if you practice in a pool, don't touch the walls
Holy shit homie that's less than a mile in 50 min kek that's nothing
you must learn technique. focus on your stroke and efficiency. tuck your chin, keep your hips up and don't wiggle them side to side. breath alternate sides every three strokes.
I live in a rural mountain place so there's only one shitty pool that's a 20 minutes drive away, but when I lived in a city for uni I swam for a bit and it didn't seem unpopular at all. One time there were 8 other people in my lane (a 25m one) and it was basically impossible to swim properly. A lot of people like it but it's simply less convenient than other forms of cardio unless you live near the sea or a lake
Black folk. They don't swim and things that Black folk don't like don't have millions poured into promoting it. Not complaining, the opposite actually.
It requires a specialized facility and membership generally; meanwhile your average gym is, well, average and abundant. For every pool there's probably two dozen gyms. If it's between a pool and a full gym, a lot of guys would rather have the gym membership. I considered a Y membership but I don't want to fight old people for pool lane reservations.
I fricking hate swimming, it's somehow even more boring than track. Yeah bro just stare at the same 25m of blue tiles going back and forth for an hour. Freediving is nice though.
Because it's a hassle to make a routine out of it over and above other forms of cardio, so unless you really love it you just filter yourself out of it.
Oly lifting isn't popular because commies dominated it during the Cold War, big athletic Americans made more money playing baseball or football, and Steve Reeves/Arnold gave bodybuilding more prominence.
Do girls on the swim team gossip about the guys with the biggest dicks?
I have to imagine in high school all the girls are at least peeking looks at their classmates in speedos.
Seems like if you are hung you could do a killing there.
What's a good weekly routine for swimming to complement lifting? And would regular freestyle swimming suffice or should different strokes be practiced? Is it like with jumprope where 30 min of swimming is 1hr of running?
Competitive swimming areas require a large amount of land space, require a unique sports measurement called "depth," are quite expensive both to build and maintain, and cannot serve another purpose other than swimming. Accidents that occur around pools, while less frequent, have a much higher risk for fatality.
While tracks, fields and courts for other sports also require a large amount of land space, they do not require much to adapt that area, can be shared for any number of other activities, less expensive, and host sports that do not require any training to prevent death.
For opposite comparative perspective, sports like "rowing" or "cycling" are similarly "unpopular" because of the environment and overwhelming land space required to perform any training or competition given it requires canals or rivers lasting kilometers in length or literal roads that travel for dozens (or longer) of kilometers and are unlikely to be shared with other vehicles.
It's because most people on IST are actually manlets. Swimming is naturally easier for people who are taller because it helps them cut through the water easier. The more mass you have, the easier and better you can swim. Manlets usually have smaller incomes too so they probably cant afford a swimming pool.
Cause it's hella gay.
T. Trackchad
enjoy having three knee surgeries by the time you're 40
t. swimmer
this tbh
running is bad for your joints, swimming doesn't ruim them
thats why swimming should be more popular
so is this a lack of money issue, same reason tennis is not popular?
Yep
Is it true Europeans don’t have ice or heat in their homes because energy costs are so high? In the US about half my street has their own pool or jacuzzi
>In the US about half my street has their own pool or jacuzzi
The entire street could be obliterated with a single tornado tho, you Black folk build your houses out of cardboard boxes
What does that have to do with anything? I wasn’t mocking euros I was just saying the energy costs if you don’t live on a coast probably prevent a lot of them from swimming
energy is expensive here a pool will cost at least 1€ a day for the pumps running. but quite more and more people get a pool installed.
in summer you go to a outdoor public pool a basic not heated one for swimming costs like 3€ for the whole day. or a unlimited card for 1 year 40€
Newer ones heated and with more attractions like slides jumping towers, wave pools cost more like 5-6€ a day.
sadly some of these face the same problems you have, with migrants stealing fighting and littering everywhere.
why would israelites post on IST
>running is bad for your joints, swimming doesn't ruim them
Swimming is hard on the shoulders.
No Ahmed, we have lakes and pools, you're just banned from them.
It's not a money issue
Most pools are only a couple dollars to lap swim
Your gay knees would explode maybe. My based knees won't because I'm based
I am 40. Knees are great. I run every day. And have done a few marathons. Feels good. But I have proper form (toe to heel) and wear the right shoes (zero drop shoes).
Frick off Black folk, swimming is peak kino. Who even likes running like a moron anyways, peak onions and prey behaviour.
Guess what moron, predator run too
The only thing you predate is the nearest mcdonalds combo you fat c**t.
>The only thing you predate is the nearest mcdonalds combo you fat c**t.
made for BBC
jej
btfo
overrated
Nah, track and running is literally one of the least aesthetic sports. Swimming is easily one of the best.
>look majestic in water
>look majestic in a pool
Running won't allow you to show off your body to a large number of people at once, and at whatever capacity you imagine you could: swimming still does it better.
This. Water washes away all the sweat and smell, but track runner gf has an aphrodisiac foot scent
>foot gay
yeah frick off homosexual
it's gay
Most people aren’t Americans who live on a lake like me or have access to a local pool even if they are. Most Europeans don’t have access to pools or water at all. Basically like asking why more people don’t play hockey, because everyone is poor
>Most Europeans don’t have access to pools or water at all
wtf are you talking about? you couldn't be more wrong
in Europe almost every bigger town has a public pool often Olympic size.
unheated outdoor for summer and heated indoor for the cold season.
Price for heated is bit more expensive (thanks to Ukraine) usually between 2,50 and 3€ for 1,15hours you go there change, shower swim 1 hour shower and change. done.
Kek what Europe has both more pools and lakes than america
Europe literally has 500,000 lakes and most of them are in Finland. America is > 3 million
3 million lakes the vast majotiy of which are in Alaska. The number of lakes by surface area in temperate areas is probably about equal between US and EU
>The number of lakes by surface area in temperate areas is probably about equal between US and EU
Aren't the great lakes bigger than anything in europe?
Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world, and Ontario/Michigan/Huron/Erie are in the top 10. You wouldn't be able to swim those unless you live in the Midwest, and Lake Superior is only accessible from the Upper Peninsula, which is the US equivalent of the Scottish Highlands or Lapland. I can personally vouch for Lake Michigan being popular for open-swimming.
They're also unpleasantly cold for most of the year.
Less of an issue if you're not a little b***h about it
Lake Superior is never warm enough to swim in
No one swims in large lakes because of the waves, they go to small inland lakes without boats
But even then fresh water swimming is like 0.5% of all swimmers, the other 99.5% swims in indoor heated lap swimming pools
I'm a poorgay latin american and even I have lots of afordable clubs with pools in a 1km radius.
>be me
>referee high school water polo
>all the guys are ripped and wear speedos
I should have been a swimmer
because it is hard to socialize on the pool
women cannot use body enhancements clothing and make up
Because the speedo scares away dicklets
thats not the reason see OP pic
Thats the reason most people are scared. Asian are less paranoid about that
>Asian are less paranoid about that
and why exactly?
they're the smallest ones as far as I know
Probably because their countries ban porn so they have less deluded ideas about dick size. They have a communal culture so individual shortcomings are less important. They have a culture where communal nudity is more normal then ours.
wrong
asian girls crave BWC
Irrelevant
Culture
True
Same
>They have a culture where communal nudity is more normal then ours.
Absolutely not. You're forbidden of public baths if you have tattoos.
Everybody think men and women are nude in onsen but most :
1. Split women and men
2. Don't allow you to be nude
Japanese culture is one of the most codified and nudity doesn't make exception.
You can watch the most twisted JAVs but not their genitals? How are they comfy with nudity? That's complete bullshit.
Korea banned porn. It's perfectly fine in Japan. No they don't have communal nudity you weirdo. Not anymore than the west.
I must have hallucinated the onsen and sentos i frequented in tokyo.
I never said it wasnt gender segregated
the real answer: there's no diversity over there so all of them have similar size and don't really have to care about it.
yeah they have public baths and social nudity isn't seen as weird. i'm just curious why all the wieners in hentai and eromanga are so much bigger than literally all japs. are they a nation of cucks?
>social nudity isn't seen as weird
social nudity is only seen as weird in USrael and some backwards sandBlack person cultures
wonder who's the weird ones
I guess you're less naked with a foreskin.
Maybe, lost mine at 12 hours old. But never felt weird being naked around other guys
Still spouting this nonsense?
Caucasian size from research:
3.7 inches; University of Alberta, Canada; University of Toronto, Canada: http://www.scribd.com/doc/29971609/The-Relationships-Among-Height-Penile-Length-and-Foot-Size
5.1 inches; Department of Urology, St. Mary's Hospital, UK: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1464-410X.2002.02974.x/full
5.2 inches; The Harriet Lane Handbook, John Hopkins University, USA: http://www.jpedhc.org/article/S0891-5245(09)00140-0/fulltext#tbl1
4.9 inches; University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, USA: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8683783
5.4 inches; Tel Aviv-Sourasky Medical Center, Israel: http://www.nature.com/ijir/journal/v12/n6/abs/3900627a.html
4.9 inches; University of Florence, Italy: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11223678?dopt=Abstract
5.3 inches; Italian Society of Andrology, Italy: http://www.falloplastica.net/fp/content/dimensioni-pene.asp?layout=1
5.3 inches; Spanish Society of Andrology, Spain: http://www.pulevasalud.com/ps/subcategoria.jsp?ID_CATEGORIA=102161
5.3 inches; Department of Urology, Jordan University Hospital, Jordan
Asian size:
5.3 inches; Department of Urology, Chosun University, South Korea: http://www.koreamed.org/SearchBasic.php?RID=1020KJU/1998.39.11.1061&DT=1
5.5 inches; Department of Urology, Beijing Medical University, China: http://www.scribd.com/doc/103023459/Chinese-Study-1990
5.3-5.4 inches; Department of Urology, Beijing Medical University, China: http://www.scribd.com/doc/103024071/Chinese-Study-1993
5.3 inches; Department of Urology, Beijing Medical University, China: http://www.scribd.com/doc/104414559/Chinese-Study-1994-3
Black size:
5.3 inches; Department of Surgery, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17191423?dopt=AbstractPlus
What does this have to do with this
?
All races have the same average penis size, diverging by .2-.3 inches
This post was on how men in countries with uncensored porn have more insecurity about their dick size
Most guys don't wear speedos, they wear jammers
Still shows your dick
Jammers suck butthole
so what? don't like people seeing the contour of your peepee? gay
No i wear speedos. I just hate jammers
People can't imagine themselves swim. They watch nigs on tv play sportsball and put themselves in the player's shoes. They can't do that with swimming.
white america follows black america as their cultural leaders and blacks don't/can't swim so it's "corny bro" and "weird asl "
>why isn't swimming more popular
Because it's dangerous to swim just after eating, and given that a majority of this board is american and can't put their fork down, there's your answer.
Would.
All of them.
Swimming is great. I swam for 9 years. It was the healthiest I've ever been. Pools and locker rooms are fricking disgusting. Ruined my skin permanently
would you recommend swimming in rivers or lakes?
also how did it ruin your skin
Because it's awkward to find a place to practice it, unlike running or cycling; looking at the bottom of a pool for hours trying to improve your splits requires a certain level of psychotic dedication beyond running.
https://imgur.com/Q4G3fWM.jpg
>short leg b***h
Disgusting.
Why do you want it to be? I already have a hard enough time finding a lane before work as it is.
Only a madman will roll that
kek
Nah bullshit. Swimming is kino but clearly not for the reasons you enunciated.
out entire body instead of just legs
Yes (but other sports do it too)
fast feels way more fun than running.
No
develop pns and proprioception
No
>>fat legit just falls off so long as you dont eat after.
Running cycling football soccer martial arts and lot of other sports do it too.
Yes
No kys.
eh why not
I don't ask for much, lord, but I really need these trips.
>649
rolling for those trips
high risk, alright reward, let's fricking go.
you did good son
Rolling. Bring me TRIPS
True swimming pool hero
what a chad
You lucky somomabitch
shieet
Homoerotic gymbro 7 I choose you
Dangeroll
Rolll
rollin for 3
ROLLAN
source?
alright then, rolling
Swimming is for homosexuals, it's ok swimming for enjoyment and fun, it's gay competing
swimming is utterly based.
>works out entire body instead of just legs
>going fast feels way more fun than running.
>helps develop pns and proprioception
>fat legit just falls off so long as you dont eat after.
t. swimmer
Everything that blacks do is popular thanks to American cultural influence nowadays. Since blacks don't swim, it's not as popular as it could be. I may sound ironic and mocking, which I actually wanna do, but unironically this also could be true which makes it pretty sad at the same time, lol
only real answer ITT
also access to lap pools in the US is severely limited
i'm in NYC and have no idea where the frick you're supposed to find a pool to swim in unless you join a fricking equinox and pay $400 a month or if you have access to a college gym
rather just be a climbing gym cuckold and pay $100 a month to filter out poors and blacks
its expensive
Question for the swim chads:
I'd like to attend an amateur triathlon which is going to happen like a year from now. I've looked up the minimum time requirements and I have to finish the swimming section in 50 minutes. It's 1500 meters. I can swim that much, even with breath strokes but only just barely, so like in 45 minutes. I'd like to have more room to wiggle tho.
So my question is: what should I do to get my time for 1500 meters down to 30 minutes from 45 in a year? Bonus question: what should I do if in general I feel like my breast strokes are faster than my front crawls?
30 mins is pretty slow already. just swim twice a week and get coaching or join an adult squad. swimming is all technique. Improving your fitness/strength is useless in the water if your form sucks
>what should I do if in general I feel like my breast strokes are faster than my front crawls
that probably means your technique sucks. swimming is 90% form so try to work on that. head down, ass up, glide like a fish. try to swim "downhill" to keep a streamlined position. and also get proper swimwear, loose shorts will drag hard.
also if it's open water, train there as well. if you practice in a pool, don't touch the walls
Holy shit homie that's less than a mile in 50 min kek that's nothing
you must learn technique. focus on your stroke and efficiency. tuck your chin, keep your hips up and don't wiggle them side to side. breath alternate sides every three strokes.
I live in a rural mountain place so there's only one shitty pool that's a 20 minutes drive away, but when I lived in a city for uni I swam for a bit and it didn't seem unpopular at all. One time there were 8 other people in my lane (a 25m one) and it was basically impossible to swim properly. A lot of people like it but it's simply less convenient than other forms of cardio unless you live near the sea or a lake
Black folk. They don't swim and things that Black folk don't like don't have millions poured into promoting it. Not complaining, the opposite actually.
Because it costs 6€ for 1h and non-swimmer migrants block all lanes.
Thanks Merkel
>swimming in other people's shit particles
Got sidelined because negritos kept drowning.
It requires a specialized facility and membership generally; meanwhile your average gym is, well, average and abundant. For every pool there's probably two dozen gyms. If it's between a pool and a full gym, a lot of guys would rather have the gym membership. I considered a Y membership but I don't want to fight old people for pool lane reservations.
i don't wanna expose myself to chlorine regularly.
if i had access to a sea water swimming pool, i'd consider it.
Somebody post the pic of the girls swimming team, you know which one
It’s a lot of work and involves jumping into a freezing pool first thing in the morning.
I would wreck her pussy in the showers
most people here are poor and don't live nearby pools
1. You need a pool
2. To use the pool, you want to look somewhat alright to begin with
>expensive
>takes more time
>afterwards your so done that the day is basicly done
>ruins your hair
>fricks your skin
I fricking hate swimming, it's somehow even more boring than track. Yeah bro just stare at the same 25m of blue tiles going back and forth for an hour. Freediving is nice though.
It attracts homos. Half of my college’s swim team was gay.
Because it's a hassle to make a routine out of it over and above other forms of cardio, so unless you really love it you just filter yourself out of it.
Is the girl in the center a weightlifter? Look at those fricking shin bones
It's too cold in majority of the US to swim year round. The past few years heating pools has been out of the question as it's too expensive.
>Why isn't Swimming more popular?
Because living is more popular than drowning.
Literally no one in China can swim
swimming is skill based
pick up heavy thing isn't
same reason oly weightlifting isn't popular here
Oly lifting isn't popular because commies dominated it during the Cold War, big athletic Americans made more money playing baseball or football, and Steve Reeves/Arnold gave bodybuilding more prominence.
because it requires you to swim (not drown)
and large pools are in short supply and sometimes gross or crowded
Because it takes something fun and makes it into work and not fun
Do girls on the swim team gossip about the guys with the biggest dicks?
I have to imagine in high school all the girls are at least peeking looks at their classmates in speedos.
Seems like if you are hung you could do a killing there.
I never heard anything from the girls but got some banter from the boys on the team. Not the biggest but I am shameless
>short legs
They must all be killer swimmers
What's a good weekly routine for swimming to complement lifting? And would regular freestyle swimming suffice or should different strokes be practiced? Is it like with jumprope where 30 min of swimming is 1hr of running?
Took a little swim, water was 70F when it was almost 100F outside.
I worked out and did a few chores outside, the pool still felt like ice.
Competitive swimming areas require a large amount of land space, require a unique sports measurement called "depth," are quite expensive both to build and maintain, and cannot serve another purpose other than swimming. Accidents that occur around pools, while less frequent, have a much higher risk for fatality.
While tracks, fields and courts for other sports also require a large amount of land space, they do not require much to adapt that area, can be shared for any number of other activities, less expensive, and host sports that do not require any training to prevent death.
For opposite comparative perspective, sports like "rowing" or "cycling" are similarly "unpopular" because of the environment and overwhelming land space required to perform any training or competition given it requires canals or rivers lasting kilometers in length or literal roads that travel for dozens (or longer) of kilometers and are unlikely to be shared with other vehicles.
It's because most people on IST are actually manlets. Swimming is naturally easier for people who are taller because it helps them cut through the water easier. The more mass you have, the easier and better you can swim. Manlets usually have smaller incomes too so they probably cant afford a swimming pool.