I've been a decent distance runner throughout high school but I've suffered numerous injuries that have left me out of training for weeks at a time. During this injury time I would go to the pool and do a "pool workout", actually I had no idea how to swim or anything so I wouldn't get a real good workout in. As time passed I learned the crawl. This year is my senior year in high school and I ran xc, swimming laps in the morning (1600m) all crawl. I remained injury free and had a good season. I swam during the winter on the swim team and learned all the strokes. I enjoyed swimming quite a bit and noticed many similarities to distance running in terms of preperation, pain, ect. Anyways my real question is now that swimming is over and track is starting I'd still love to incorporate morning swims to help my overall aerobic conditioning process along. I have time for about 2400m of swimming before school. What type of swimming workouts should I do in the morning to complement my running schedule??
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Since you like swimming distance, try a warmup of 300-400 meters before going into the main set. How about 4 x 400m with an interval that gives you somewhere between 30 to 45 seconds rest in between each 400. You could throw in a small set of kicking (6 x 50) and then warm down with 100 easy.
The continuous swims are good for conditioning, but interval training will make you challenge yourself a bit more. As you get faster at making the 400 on a certain time, you can tighten the interval.
There's my 2 cents. :)
Since you like swimming distance, try a warmup of 300-400 meters before going into the main set. How about 4 x 400m with an interval that gives you somewhere between 30 to 45 seconds rest in between each 400. You could throw in a small set of kicking (6 x 50) and then warm down with 100 easy.
The continuous swims are good for conditioning, but interval training will make you challenge yourself a bit more. As you get faster at making the 400 on a certain time, you can tighten the interval.
There's my 2 cents. :)
