IrishTusk wrote:
deltafunction wrote:
I love swimming. The water feels nice on my skin (if it's not too cold!), and I concentrate on my breath and forget everything else. When times got tough for me, swimming calmed me down.
Any advice on avoiding water up the nose then? Heh.
I'd try to teach myself but the local pool is always busy as it's the only one within a hour journey of about 4 different towns. And being on the coast of scotland getting in the battle is more daft than a ice bath
To prevent getting water up your nose, what you do is exhale through your nose whilst underwater. So eventually, you get in the water, and it's second nature to exhale to not get water in your nose. Jumping in or diving can be a problem for this, as you gotta time your breaths, but if you wanna learn, just put your head under water slowly while exhaling, shouldn't be too hard. Eventually, just go under the water faster and faster so your brain can learn the timing of exhaling. You gotta exhale reasonably hard, you wanna make bubbles. Just exhale as hard as possible when you're first learning, then later you can exhale less once you learn what's required to not get water up your nose.
Anyway, I swam a lot as a kid, don't do it too much as an adult. I was vacationing near a river that was very swimmable last year, and really enjoyed going to the river to swim, but pools I don't find as fun. I don't really like the chlorine and just how small and artificial pools feel. It'd be good exercise for me, though, need a little extra aerobic exercise. One thing I never managed to teach myself to do was flip underwater at the end of a lap. I'm reasonably fast sprinting at swimming, but my endurance is really low.
Also, as a kid I was really weird. Basically as soon as I learned to actually swim, I left the heated pool at my YMCA and swam in the cold pool with the adults, and I'd just swim laps alone for like, hours. I didn't like playing Marco Polo and stuff with the other kids. I was like 11 or 12, too, swimming laps alone. Definite Aspie traits I guess... But my parent's divorced, and my mom cancelled the YMCA membership, so after 5-6th grade, never swam much again.