For a relatively new fitness lap swimmer, would it be better, from the standpoint of building endurance and improving technique, to swim--for example--1/2 hour 6 days a week or 1 hour 3 days a week?
I enjoy swimming pretty much every day that I can, but don't enjoy constantly driving to the pool, changing, etc. etc. I'm wondering if the same training effect of "x" number of hours a week would change if one goes from every day to every other day.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts on this and thanks to all posters for this interesting an useful forum.
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only a half an hour?! I think that if you want to build endurance you have to commit more time than that. A half an hour could be one long set if you swim slowly, so that won't help you that much. I think to increase endurance, you have swim a little long than that, so I'm more for the 1 hour a day for 3 days a week. You'll get more accomplished if you swim longer workouts.
I think the fitness class at NYU practices for an an hour and a half every other day(?)...something along those lines.
But I still think that 3 days a week is a little to short. If you could try to increase it to like 4 days a week, because I agree with laineybug, you shouldn't let 48 hours pass without swimming. If you did 4 days a week, you would be swimming every other day with on consecutive workout a week.
But high school teams do it, they practice on weekdays and rest on weekends...it seemed to work pretty well for me, but they were 2 and half hour practices with an hour and a half morning practice on mondays and wednesdays...but it's for competitive swimming.
only a half an hour?! I think that if you want to build endurance you have to commit more time than that. A half an hour could be one long set if you swim slowly, so that won't help you that much. I think to increase endurance, you have swim a little long than that, so I'm more for the 1 hour a day for 3 days a week. You'll get more accomplished if you swim longer workouts.
I think the fitness class at NYU practices for an an hour and a half every other day(?)...something along those lines.
But I still think that 3 days a week is a little to short. If you could try to increase it to like 4 days a week, because I agree with laineybug, you shouldn't let 48 hours pass without swimming. If you did 4 days a week, you would be swimming every other day with on consecutive workout a week.
But high school teams do it, they practice on weekdays and rest on weekends...it seemed to work pretty well for me, but they were 2 and half hour practices with an hour and a half morning practice on mondays and wednesdays...but it's for competitive swimming.
