200 yd warm-up
4x 50 yd flutter kick (20s rest between each)
4x 75 yd with 20s rest between sets. every other 75 is freestyle, the others are any stroke you choose
6 x 100 yd of freestyle with first 2 on 2:00 interval (1:50 for advanced students), next 2 on 2:15 (2:00 for advanced students) and the final two on 2:30 (2:10 for advanced students?)
6 x 50yd on 1:30, 1:15 and 1:00 intervals, same pattern as above.
2 x 100 cooldown.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Thursday's Swimming Work-out
Sorry I forgot to post this earlier. I'm going to do this the best I can to my memory.
200 warm-up
100 kick (on your back, no kick board, in streamline position (or with hands to the sides if you sink in streamline)).
4 X 100yd using pull buoy and doing the arm movements for Back Stroke. 30 seconds rest between each set.
4 x 50yd of Free style with 20 seconds rest between each set.
2 x 100yd backstroke arms (with pull buoy). (30s rest between sets)
2 x 50 yd free style (20s rest between sets)
4 x 50 yds of back stroke with 30 seconds rest.
the back stroke has kind of weird arm movements. Your hands don't push straight down in the water like in free style, they kind of go to the side a bit. Here is a link with a demonstration.
200 warm-up
100 kick (on your back, no kick board, in streamline position (or with hands to the sides if you sink in streamline)).
4 X 100yd using pull buoy and doing the arm movements for Back Stroke. 30 seconds rest between each set.
4 x 50yd of Free style with 20 seconds rest between each set.
2 x 100yd backstroke arms (with pull buoy). (30s rest between sets)
2 x 50 yd free style (20s rest between sets)
4 x 50 yds of back stroke with 30 seconds rest.
the back stroke has kind of weird arm movements. Your hands don't push straight down in the water like in free style, they kind of go to the side a bit. Here is a link with a demonstration.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Tuesday's swimming workout
So I decided I'm going to document things I do in my swimming class this semester so I can have new ideas of how to schedule my own workouts. I'm posting them here on my blog for anyone else to use. Just as an FYI. My class in Thursdays and Tuesdays.
The workout:
200 yd warm-up.
200 yd kicking warm up.
4 x100yd on an interval of 2:30/3:00 (or 1:45/2:00 for advanced students)
4 x50yd on an interval of 1:30/2:00 (I didn't catch the times for advanced students)
6 x25 yards on an interval of :40
So just so you know the format of the times is minutes:seconds.
An interval is you do the distance required in the time slot and use the remaining amount of time in the slot to recover for the next distance swim in the set. The two times on each are an either or. If you can't do the faster one, do the slower one.
The workout:
200 yd warm-up.
200 yd kicking warm up.
4 x100yd on an interval of 2:30/3:00 (or 1:45/2:00 for advanced students)
4 x50yd on an interval of 1:30/2:00 (I didn't catch the times for advanced students)
6 x25 yards on an interval of :40
So just so you know the format of the times is minutes:seconds.
An interval is you do the distance required in the time slot and use the remaining amount of time in the slot to recover for the next distance swim in the set. The two times on each are an either or. If you can't do the faster one, do the slower one.
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
I'm infuriated....
Just recently Congress passed a bill allowing for the indefinite detention of US citizens suspected of terrorism. This is a violation of our constitutional rights and could be used in the future to put down political opposition to any people in the government in the future. What depressed me even more was that our president signed it into law, despite his reservations.
I felt like I needed to post some links to the congressmen associated with the passing of this bill, so everyone can know which of our congressmen are enemies of the people.
House voting record
Senate voting record
I'm putting this up for use in the upcoming 2012 election. That way we can all vote for people that will protect our rights and vote out the ones who don't care.
I felt like I needed to post some links to the congressmen associated with the passing of this bill, so everyone can know which of our congressmen are enemies of the people.
House voting record
Senate voting record
I'm putting this up for use in the upcoming 2012 election. That way we can all vote for people that will protect our rights and vote out the ones who don't care.
Monday, December 19, 2011
Not retiring the Wizard's staff for the break...
I was really looking forward to having a break, working on my Master's thesis, etc. But my little brother came to me with an idea for an app for Android. So I'm currently downloading the Adroid SDK into my current version of eclipse. Which means I'll still be programming. It'll be fun right?
I dunno, I'm getting kind of excited. I'll post more here if I get it done. The app I'm writing needs to be able to pick out certain details from images. We'll see how this goes, because there's no way I'm writing that code by hand. I might be able to do it, but I'd rather not, I found out about some libraries through a friend, let's hope this works!
I dunno, I'm getting kind of excited. I'll post more here if I get it done. The app I'm writing needs to be able to pick out certain details from images. We'll see how this goes, because there's no way I'm writing that code by hand. I might be able to do it, but I'd rather not, I found out about some libraries through a friend, let's hope this works!
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Alcoholism & Addiction strategies
So this weekend I overheard details about someone with an alcoholism problem. An interesting aspect of my mission is that most of the present members at some point had a struggle with alcohol due to how common its usage is in the areas I served. There are a few things I learned about alcoholism and addiction in general:
1) This is specific to alcoholism - the brain can be tricked into thinking it's getting what it wants. I learned this because I've had the non-alcoholic versions of wine and beer given to me by either investigators and members. I thought they tasted disgusting, but something I noticed is that the people who gave them to me thought they tasted amazing. And I believe the reason is their brain was associating their flavor with the drug it got a long with the beverage, so a reasonable way to wean someone off of an alcoholic beverage may be to have them drink that instead when they're struggling with staying away from it during a period of rough times.
2) General towards all addiction - the addiction usually serves to fill a hole of some kind. It either provides some means of escapism and/or fights boredom/eats up time. I learned this from my own World of Warcraft addiction. You can't defeat an addiction by telling yourself you won't do it again. that's not enough. You need to get rid of it, all the paraphernalia associated with it and replace it with something else. When I quit World of Warcraft before my mission, I eventually went back for a while before I left on my mission because I didn't have anything else to do and even used that as my justification for returning. When I got home, I picked up swimming to fill that void. I could never go back to WoW because the things swimming gave me far outweigh what I ever got from WoW. I just don't have the time for both, so even when the temptation came back for a bit, I still didn't cave because what I found was so much better.
Granted, WoW also served as an escape for me before my mission as well. It was my way of running away from what I viewed were the negative opinions others had of me. When I got back from my mission, I just decided I didn't care what others thought anymore. So in addition to replacing an addiction, someone fighting an addiction needs to face whatever other demons they're using it to hide from. Whether it's the opinions of others, a bad childhood, etc., someone struggling from an addiction needs to come up with a change in mindset to undo the damage they're hiding from.
I may be oversimplifying some things, but I hope this helps anyone I know struggling with an addiction.
1) This is specific to alcoholism - the brain can be tricked into thinking it's getting what it wants. I learned this because I've had the non-alcoholic versions of wine and beer given to me by either investigators and members. I thought they tasted disgusting, but something I noticed is that the people who gave them to me thought they tasted amazing. And I believe the reason is their brain was associating their flavor with the drug it got a long with the beverage, so a reasonable way to wean someone off of an alcoholic beverage may be to have them drink that instead when they're struggling with staying away from it during a period of rough times.
2) General towards all addiction - the addiction usually serves to fill a hole of some kind. It either provides some means of escapism and/or fights boredom/eats up time. I learned this from my own World of Warcraft addiction. You can't defeat an addiction by telling yourself you won't do it again. that's not enough. You need to get rid of it, all the paraphernalia associated with it and replace it with something else. When I quit World of Warcraft before my mission, I eventually went back for a while before I left on my mission because I didn't have anything else to do and even used that as my justification for returning. When I got home, I picked up swimming to fill that void. I could never go back to WoW because the things swimming gave me far outweigh what I ever got from WoW. I just don't have the time for both, so even when the temptation came back for a bit, I still didn't cave because what I found was so much better.
Granted, WoW also served as an escape for me before my mission as well. It was my way of running away from what I viewed were the negative opinions others had of me. When I got back from my mission, I just decided I didn't care what others thought anymore. So in addition to replacing an addiction, someone fighting an addiction needs to face whatever other demons they're using it to hide from. Whether it's the opinions of others, a bad childhood, etc., someone struggling from an addiction needs to come up with a change in mindset to undo the damage they're hiding from.
I may be oversimplifying some things, but I hope this helps anyone I know struggling with an addiction.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
For our day...
So just before I was going to bed tonight, I was doing some reading up on the Book of Mormon. I had actually found a link to the original version with some commentary (from a non-LDS source).
As I was reading the commentary I noticed a few things
1) It seemed more honest about the Book of Mormon than most of its critics are (like citing the fact that the changes made to it since its first publication were grammatical ones, not doctrinal).
2) It actually mentioned the fact the original contained more Hebraisms than the more modern version (interesting to note, because Joseph Smith didn't study Hebrew until after the translation, and I'm guessing like many of the Hebraisms I've already heard of, they weren't in the Bible, it also makes sense they would fade as the grammar was corrected. Good Hebrew grammar isn't good English grammar all of the time). Generally I've felt like outside sources have been less likely to point out any evidence that it may be true, so the fact that it's mentioning them makes me a bit more proud of the scholars who wrote that commentary than most.
3)What I thought was interesting was a part of the commentary that talked about how the Book of Mormon seemed to discuss pretty much any topic Christianity had been struggling with at the time of the restoration (infant baptism, the trinity, etc.). What I thought was cool was as I read that statement, a flood of inspiration hit me. I realized that the records the Nephites had talked about tons of things, they were so huge the prophet-historian Mormon had to abridge them into what is now the Book of Mormon. Is it coincidence he was inspired to answer every question Christianity had been struggling with at the time? I got the feeling Heavenly Father knew the state Christianity would be in at the time and wanted to give those willing to listen the answers. As this feeling came to me I looked at my arm and realized the goosebumps across it. Because of that I realized those thoughts didn't come from me, but the Holy Spirit (goosebumps aren't always a sign of the Spirit for me, but it's not uncommon I get them when I receive inspiration). You know even though I've known the Book of Mormon to be true for a long time now, I'm grateful Heavenly Father keeps giving me confirmation it's true and keeps leading me throughout my life.
With that note I'd like to close with my testimony that I know the Book of Mormon is true, and that our Heavenly Father wants to lead and guide us through this crazy thing we call life. His son, Jesus Christ made it possible for us to make it back to Him and he sends prophets now to lead and guide us. I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
As I was reading the commentary I noticed a few things
1) It seemed more honest about the Book of Mormon than most of its critics are (like citing the fact that the changes made to it since its first publication were grammatical ones, not doctrinal).
2) It actually mentioned the fact the original contained more Hebraisms than the more modern version (interesting to note, because Joseph Smith didn't study Hebrew until after the translation, and I'm guessing like many of the Hebraisms I've already heard of, they weren't in the Bible, it also makes sense they would fade as the grammar was corrected. Good Hebrew grammar isn't good English grammar all of the time). Generally I've felt like outside sources have been less likely to point out any evidence that it may be true, so the fact that it's mentioning them makes me a bit more proud of the scholars who wrote that commentary than most.
3)What I thought was interesting was a part of the commentary that talked about how the Book of Mormon seemed to discuss pretty much any topic Christianity had been struggling with at the time of the restoration (infant baptism, the trinity, etc.). What I thought was cool was as I read that statement, a flood of inspiration hit me. I realized that the records the Nephites had talked about tons of things, they were so huge the prophet-historian Mormon had to abridge them into what is now the Book of Mormon. Is it coincidence he was inspired to answer every question Christianity had been struggling with at the time? I got the feeling Heavenly Father knew the state Christianity would be in at the time and wanted to give those willing to listen the answers. As this feeling came to me I looked at my arm and realized the goosebumps across it. Because of that I realized those thoughts didn't come from me, but the Holy Spirit (goosebumps aren't always a sign of the Spirit for me, but it's not uncommon I get them when I receive inspiration). You know even though I've known the Book of Mormon to be true for a long time now, I'm grateful Heavenly Father keeps giving me confirmation it's true and keeps leading me throughout my life.
With that note I'd like to close with my testimony that I know the Book of Mormon is true, and that our Heavenly Father wants to lead and guide us through this crazy thing we call life. His son, Jesus Christ made it possible for us to make it back to Him and he sends prophets now to lead and guide us. I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
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