As mentioned on the post before last, one of my two chosen charities for my open water swimming endeavours, CLIC Sargent, were holding a "Dip with a Nip" in the River Deben in the small Suffolk village of Waldringfield near Ipswich. So at 9am my wife Beccy, cousin Trevor Cole and me set off on a beautiful sunny, but frosty winter's morning to take a dip in the 8 degree Centigrade'ish water.
It was my job to motivate the 28 competitors to dive into the the icy waters of the River Deben. I was introduced by Claire from the CLIC Sargent Bury St Edmunds office. Having completed my Diploma in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) this year, I used a technique called a "Chained Anchor" to help them visualise their dip, and to make them mentally feel that when they entered the water, it would be hot rather than cold! They all participated and seem to enjoy it!
Above: Mentally preparing the swimmers for their icy dip using NLP techniques.
At 10.55am, we all left the warmth of the club house, to strip off and prepare ourselves to enter water.
At 10.55am, we all left the warmth of the club house, to strip off and prepare ourselves to enter water.
8 comments:
Why is everyone in your blog so porky? Obviously swimming isn't doing the trick, you all need to get your noses out of the trough now and then.
Obesity kills.
Neil, thank you for your comment. As and Herbalife distributor, I am fully aware of the obesity problem in the UK and other parts of the world, and my business activities with Herbalife aims to address this problem.
However, as open water swimmers we have to address three things. Firstly to mentally prepare ourselves to swim in water temperatures sometimes as low as 5 degrees centigrade. Secondly, to train long and hard enough to enable our bodies to physically withstand swimming for sometimes over 20 hours in the sea to complete a swim challenge (e.g. The English Channel). Lastly, which is the answer to your question, we have to pile on enough weight to ensure that our core body temperature remains at the correct temperature and to enable us to withstand normally unbearably cold water temperatures for such prolonged periods of time. Most people fail the English Channel due to the cold, putting on weight is the only known answer to enable us to achieve this. The physical fitness we have, hopefully goes someway to compensating for the weight we have to pile on.
I hope that answers your question.
Kind regards.
Hoffy
Well after choking on my sausage sandwich while reading Neil's comment lol I would just like to say that im quite sure Neil is one of us porkies too who is just a bit jealous because he cant get his nose out his trough long enough to do any excercise.
Happy New Year Hoffy & Becky :)
Now back to my trough lol
There may be another possible (or partial) answer: Third Spacing. Read here: http://www.10kswimmer.com/2008/12/eat-well-and-blame-it-on-third-spacing.html.
he's just big-boned
Maggie – Happy new year to you too! I hope you didn’t choke on your sausage! Good points raised. Happy troughing!
Steve – Yes, I forgot about that one. I remember very well Grant Hackett being all over the press here in the UK because he was “overweight” after his open water swimming experiences. Third Spacing is another good reason for us appearing “Porky”. Thanks for this.
Chris – LOL! Who me????
They say there's no such thing as a free lunch. Try telling that to 'Hoffy' and his missus...!
Neil, I'm really not sure what the above is supposed to mean, however, my full time job is as a Chartered IT Professional, so I know it was you who wrote this comment. Hiding behind anonymous doesn't cover who you are. My wife and I are ceratinly not in the habit of taking free lunches from anyone. As councillors, we are not allowed to. If you have issue with something which I am unaware of, then can I suggest you e-mail me at paul@hoffyswims.com and we can discuss, otherwise, please stick to swimming matters. This is a swimming and charity fundraising blog.
Thank you.
Hoffy.
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