I count leg lifts by 13s (two of them to the alphabet) forward and backward in letters and numerals in English, Spanish and German. When I was swimming laps I did much the same. Most of the time if I lost track, I just started over from where I remembered being, but I’ve noticed these days that after the first few sets, I’m likely to count “Dreizhen, elf, zwelf, sieben, sex, fumpf… wait, did I skip something? Oh well, fier, drei, zwei, ein”
I count leg lifts by 13s (two of them to the alphabet) forward and backward in letters and numerals in English, Spanish and German. When I was swimming laps I did much the same. Most of the time if I lost track, I just started over from where I remembered being, but I’ve noticed these days that after the first few sets, I’m likely to count “Dreizhen, elf, zwelf, sieben, sex, fumpf… wait, did I skip something? Oh well, fier, drei, zwei, ein”