Swimming

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Greenbank in reply to @dancing james

I will be swimming five days a week before the course

Good, that's the important thing.

and have a reasonable cardio vo2max base from turbo training.

I went back to swimming a few times in my life, once after doing London-Edinburgh-London and another time after marathon training.

Both times I was fucked after no more than 400m of swimming. Second time in the pool I managed 800m. Third time 1200m. Etc, etc.

CV fitness is great, but nothing beats time in the pool doing actual swimming.

tl;dr Turbo training does fuck all for the shoulders.

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dancing james in reply to @Greenbank

I have ordered one of those front facing snorkels so I can swim and not worry about the breathing so much until I do the course. At least that way I should have the upper body resilience to not get so physically tired while learning - though am aware how mentally exhausting I find learning to be.

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