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.
Guys, in my opinion, serious improvement is swimming a mile in less than 18min - I consider that's impossible to achieve by swimming only 30min a day.
Of course it's possible to improve technique and to swim it in relatively easy manner in 23 or even 22 min. For amateur it's not a bad result. To go down beyond that time IMO most likely you will need to swim harder and to spend more time in the water.
Maybe before writing a training plan a good idea would be to ask Paul 1953 what time you expect to achieve?
No, serious improvement is Paul making progress from his 30:00 minutes base time for his mile. Serious improvement is him improving his times and ability.
I'm curious to see what he can accomplish with just 30 min a day.
His "before" is 30 minutes, let's see how much he can drop.
He should feel good about what ever he does.
Applying some random external standard like doing a 1650 in 18 minutes or 1760 in ??:?? leads to comparing and despairing, which might cause him to give up and the point is for him to train as much and as hard and as smart as he can and enjoy swimming. He didn't tell us much of his story so we are giving suggestions with only some of the facts.
Let's see how he does
Guys, in my opinion, serious improvement is swimming a mile in less than 18min - I consider that's impossible to achieve by swimming only 30min a day.
Of course it's possible to improve technique and to swim it in relatively easy manner in 23 or even 22 min. For amateur it's not a bad result. To go down beyond that time IMO most likely you will need to swim harder and to spend more time in the water.
Maybe before writing a training plan a good idea would be to ask Paul 1953 what time you expect to achieve?
No, serious improvement is Paul making progress from his 30:00 minutes base time for his mile. Serious improvement is him improving his times and ability.
I'm curious to see what he can accomplish with just 30 min a day.
His "before" is 30 minutes, let's see how much he can drop.
He should feel good about what ever he does.
Applying some random external standard like doing a 1650 in 18 minutes or 1760 in ??:?? leads to comparing and despairing, which might cause him to give up and the point is for him to train as much and as hard and as smart as he can and enjoy swimming. He didn't tell us much of his story so we are giving suggestions with only some of the facts.
Let's see how he does
