Better-than-nothing workouts

Hi, everyone, I work full time and have a baby at home and so getting to my masters practices has become impossible. I don't want to stop swimming, so I am going to try going at lunch, which only gives me about 30 minutes to swim. Not enough to be in great shape or really improve, but better than nothing, right? Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas for the best types of workouts to do when you only have half an hour? Btw, I am a mid-level masters swimmer who used to swim 90 minute 4,000-yard-ish workouts 4 days a week pre-baby if that makes any difference. Thanks in advance! And any other moms of babies or young toddlers out there? I swim on my lunch and I get about 42 minutes in the water. There's actually a lot you can do. Be sure to do a minor warmup, something like 500-600 y/m or so. Then mix it up with different types of sets. Some recovery, and some intense stuff. A typical lunchtime workout for me would look like this: 2x150m swim 2:45 interval 1x200m kick 25fly/25free 2x150m pull 2:45 interval 4x50m on 1:00 #1&3 hard pull #2&4 catchup drill pull ^^All this is the warmup 1000m Now the main set would be something like this on a recovery day: 3x200m on 3:30 interval. get faster on each 3x100m on 2:00 interval working the turns 300 cool down Or something like this on a intensity day: 6x100 on 1:30 interval, in by 1:20 2 min rest 6x50 on 1:00, in by 35. 4x25 on :45 sprint 200 cooldown Once a week I throw a serious kicking effort set in there for 400-600m. Tone these down in distance and interval to match your available time. You'd be surprised what you can do on a lunch hour.

Hi, everyone, I work full time and have a baby at home and so getting to my masters practices has become impossible. I don't want to stop swimming, so I am going to try going at lunch, which only gives me about 30 minutes to swim. Not enough to be in great shape or really improve, but better than nothing, right? Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas for the best types of workouts to do when you only have half an hour? Btw, I am a mid-level masters swimmer who used to swim 90 minute 4,000-yard-ish workouts 4 days a week pre-baby if that makes any difference. Thanks in advance! And any other moms of babies or young toddlers out there? I swim on my lunch and I get about 42 minutes in the water. There's actually a lot you can do. Be sure to do a minor warmup, something like 500-600 y/m or so. Then mix it up with different types of sets. Some recovery, and some intense stuff. A typical lunchtime workout for me would look like this: 2x150m swim 2:45 interval 1x200m kick 25fly/25free 2x150m pull 2:45 interval 4x50m on 1:00 #1&3 hard pull #2&4 catchup drill pull ^^All this is the warmup 1000m Now the main set would be something like this on a recovery day: 3x200m on 3:30 interval. get faster on each 3x100m on 2:00 interval working the turns 300 cool down Or something like this on a intensity day: 6x100 on 1:30 interval, in by 1:20 2 min rest 6x50 on 1:00, in by 35. 4x25 on :45 sprint 200 cooldown Once a week I throw a serious kicking effort set in there for 400-600m. Tone these down in distance and interval to match your available time. You'd be surprised what you can do on a lunch hour.