Possible to improve 30min distance w/only 30min sessions?
Former Member
Hi,
This is my 1st post.
I have been a fitness swimmer (off & on depending if I lived near a pool) for nearly 30 years, since my mid-20s when I taught myself to swim a mile freestyle non-stop. (I had a few pointers from a local swim coach back then)
My times have always been around 30 minutes, give or take.
I am now retired and have a year round indoor pool. It's short... 56 feet I think. 48 laps= 1 mile. Yes, it's a lot of flip turns.
I still do dry land, weights, pushups & chin ups etc.
But I don't like spending more than 30 min in the pool. Typically, it's mostly freestyle, with a few backstroke & kickboard thrown in...all nonstop & flip turns.
I went all out on Friday, and still fell just short of a mile :-(
My question: Is it unrealistic to expect to improve my time without spending more time in the water?
No Masters around here (Camano Island Wa), but I did hear a local pastor used to coach a Brazilian Olympic team...
ps I was just reading some threads here and found out the S curve stroke is no longer advised. Ha! News to me. Maybe that's my problem.
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Former Member
...My times have always been around 30 minutes, give or take....
Take it!
U can use one of the most important training protocol now under scientific research. Use your HR (Heart Rate) to fix ur training in this way:
1) Have a right medical check with a doctor specialist in sports and fix ur HR Max. Please don't use the "basic" law (220-age) because that is good just to talk about the "middle" in a population, not for you
2) Use a right cardio during ur swim (the best underwater is the "t-31" by Polar)
3) Swim at ur max HR but, important, if your doctor give u the HR max after a laboratory test (not in a pool) remember to decrease this "max" by 8-1o beats because in a pool ur max is not the same outwater.
4) and now, have this training: 4minutes at 90% of HR max, 3minutes at 60%. This for 3 times (if u can, or until ur exaustathion).
Do that after 10minutes of warm-up and, let me know
ciao
...My times have always been around 30 minutes, give or take....
Take it!
U can use one of the most important training protocol now under scientific research. Use your HR (Heart Rate) to fix ur training in this way:
1) Have a right medical check with a doctor specialist in sports and fix ur HR Max. Please don't use the "basic" law (220-age) because that is good just to talk about the "middle" in a population, not for you
2) Use a right cardio during ur swim (the best underwater is the "t-31" by Polar)
3) Swim at ur max HR but, important, if your doctor give u the HR max after a laboratory test (not in a pool) remember to decrease this "max" by 8-1o beats because in a pool ur max is not the same outwater.
4) and now, have this training: 4minutes at 90% of HR max, 3minutes at 60%. This for 3 times (if u can, or until ur exaustathion).
Do that after 10minutes of warm-up and, let me know
ciao
