I have been swimming for almost 2 months about 5 times per week. In the beginning I did mostly freestyle and a little breaststroke but have been taking a class to learn the other strokes. I found out my breaststroke technique was off and am revamping it. I can do backstroke but am still refining technique a bit. I am learning butterfly - learned dolphin kick this past week.
My question is about how to spend my time at the pool. I have been spending about 45 minutes in the past month. I warm up with a little freestyle. Then I spend about 10-15 minutes each on backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly (aka dolphin kick right now). Is that a good idea? Or should I devote entire workouts to one stroke at a time? I think that could work better - I would have more time to get the technique down. But I worry I will lose something if I don't maintain a little every day. Any suggestions? Should I spend more time in the pool?
Thanks -
Former Member
Thanks - I live in the Chicago area and have been swimming at Northwestern. I know they have a masters group and I was going to check out a practice at some point. I do want a group that will allow me to keep learning and I don't want to do freestyle all the time (nothing against triathletes, but i like the variety of swimming).
I appreciate any advice -
The reason I would never workout with a masters group is they do all strokes during a workout. They do drills for all strokes, I do not do drills. I am sure almost any masters club would fill your needs at this time.
Another piece of advice: The coaches are there to help you improve your swimming. Don't be afraid to ask the coach for a little individual help if you want them to check something out. Sometimes it is hard for them to give personal advice to every swimmer during a workout, but if you just ask they are almost always more than happy to watch your stroke and help you out.
Ink
The fastest way is to go here http://www.swimmersguide.com/ the swimmers guide. Go to the city you live in find the local pools and see if they have a swim club. Swim clubs have coaches, some good some bad. If you are not a good swimmer even a bad coach can help.
Bad coaches don't like to work with bad swimmers. I think we're just too much of a challenge!
My experience of swim clubs is that "All levels of swimmer" means many different things to many different people.
