Your Average Lap Workout Count?

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How many laps do you swim on a average workout? I ask because of the lap counter questions. I used to count laps but that was when I was swimming 18 laps or a 1/4 mile I stopped because it got to be a hassle and really did not care..Exercise is what it is but got to wonder how far I do swim.. I try to swim 30 to 45 minutes a day.. 36 laps to about 50 laps I guess. And a lap I am counting is once across 25 meters or 75 feet depending on the pool. Or is that a lenght across..? I am a lightweight compared to some as I know some swimmers training for Olympics measure their distance in thousands of yards a day. or 1760 yards a mile. thats..71 laps a mile 36 laps a 1/2 mile 18 laps a 1/4 mile give a bit.. Now meters unless I'm wrong its about 1624 meters a mile, or 65 laps a mile or 33 laps a half mile or 16 laps a 1/4 mile in a 25 meter pool rounded off.
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    Originally posted by dorothyrde Ok, I will bite. A lap is 2 lengths. So how far you go in a lap depends on pool length. I swim in a 25 yard pool, so a lap is 50 yards. I average about 2500 yards in a 45 minute noon swim, up to 3500 yards if I can spend an hour to hour 15 in the pool. I never swim continuous the whole time, the most I swim at one time is a 1650, and I am miserable the whole time. I love interval IM work, so doing a 1650 free is my grunt work, I do it once in a while because it is good for me, ha. I have always counted a lap as one length. I never thought about it until my father told me that a lap, in his opinion, was up and back. That seems reasonable to me because when you "lap" someone you swam two lengths to his one, except that in running, a lap is one time around a track (at least I thought it was). With that reasoning, if you straighten the track to look like a pool, isn't one running lap the equivalent of swimming one length in a pool? I don't know the answer so I have quit referring to laps or lengths and now just think in terms of yardage. I swim 3500 to 3900 yards per hour (roughly). If my math is correct 3500 yards is the equivalent of 140 ups and 70 up-and-backs...I think.
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    Originally posted by dorothyrde Ok, I will bite. A lap is 2 lengths. So how far you go in a lap depends on pool length. I swim in a 25 yard pool, so a lap is 50 yards. I average about 2500 yards in a 45 minute noon swim, up to 3500 yards if I can spend an hour to hour 15 in the pool. I never swim continuous the whole time, the most I swim at one time is a 1650, and I am miserable the whole time. I love interval IM work, so doing a 1650 free is my grunt work, I do it once in a while because it is good for me, ha. I have always counted a lap as one length. I never thought about it until my father told me that a lap, in his opinion, was up and back. That seems reasonable to me because when you "lap" someone you swam two lengths to his one, except that in running, a lap is one time around a track (at least I thought it was). With that reasoning, if you straighten the track to look like a pool, isn't one running lap the equivalent of swimming one length in a pool? I don't know the answer so I have quit referring to laps or lengths and now just think in terms of yardage. I swim 3500 to 3900 yards per hour (roughly). If my math is correct 3500 yards is the equivalent of 140 ups and 70 up-and-backs...I think.
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