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Getting In Some Weekly Discomfort
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Getting In Some Weekly Discomfort

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Paul Newsome, Swim Smooth
Feb 10, 2012
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You're swimming a set of 8x 200m and you are on number three. Your heart rate is high and your breathing deep, and you're feeling some heaviness and burn from your muscles as they resist the effort. There's still another five reps to go, perhaps 15 or 20 minutes of hard work ahead of you, which right now seems like an eternity.

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