Here's the deal.
I can only swim 50 min to one hour a day, which equates to at most 2000 yards for endurance work and 1500 yards for faster interval work with more rest.
I feel guilty when I read about other peoples yardage. Is anyone putting up some fast freestyle times with this little yardage? If so, what are the times? I really want to know.
I dont have time to swim more than 1 hr at a time either. This is plenty of time to swim fast,if you are mindful. Also if you can supplement your swimming with other exercising it helps. I do stability ball exercises wathing TV and stationary biking reading the newspaper. If you only have 50 minutes make every minute count. That doesn't mean trying for maximum yardage,it means planning what you are going to do carefully given your goal. You said free so lets say your goal event is the 100. What do YOU need to make YOUR 100 Free faster.Aerobic endurance is not the most important thing for the100. Starts, turns,streamling,technique,finding your race pace are more important for the 100. These all can be honed in 50-60 min.workouts. How fast you can go depends on many things,including genetics.One thing is certain,you will swim much faster working out 50 min. at a time than if you don't.If you swim 50 min.4 times per week you will be in better shape than 99% of the country.
I dont have time to swim more than 1 hr at a time either. This is plenty of time to swim fast,if you are mindful. Also if you can supplement your swimming with other exercising it helps. I do stability ball exercises wathing TV and stationary biking reading the newspaper. If you only have 50 minutes make every minute count. That doesn't mean trying for maximum yardage,it means planning what you are going to do carefully given your goal. You said free so lets say your goal event is the 100. What do YOU need to make YOUR 100 Free faster.Aerobic endurance is not the most important thing for the100. Starts, turns,streamling,technique,finding your race pace are more important for the 100. These all can be honed in 50-60 min.workouts. How fast you can go depends on many things,including genetics.One thing is certain,you will swim much faster working out 50 min. at a time than if you don't.If you swim 50 min.4 times per week you will be in better shape than 99% of the country.
