I've only been swimming (trying to swim properly) since January 07. I've just about got my freestyle technique ok, but I don't seem to be swimming very fast. It takes me about 15mins to swim 1.5km in a 50m pool. Can anyone give basic tips on improving speed? Maybe it's as simple as swimming more, I'm currently only swimming two or three times a week, with two of those sessions with a squad (in the speed challenged lane)! Oh, I'm also more of a runner (marathon and shorter long distance runs), and am trying to improve my swimming speed to feel more confident about competing in triathlons. Any advice appreciated.:fish2:
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This is great feedback. I'll ask my Saturdy swim squad coach if he'll mind taping me swim tomorrow, I wouldn't mind seeing also, I'm sure my style's quite bad. Anyway, I tried the 10 x 100m's last night, and managed one 100m in 1min45sec (after a 500m warmup), then needed way more than 30 sec rest, so I just lapped out the rest of my session (non-squad swim). I'll try doing more of these, at least it's an indicator on shorter distances that I can swim faster than one minute laps - this is encouraging. Thanks again!
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This is great feedback. I'll ask my Saturdy swim squad coach if he'll mind taping me swim tomorrow, I wouldn't mind seeing also, I'm sure my style's quite bad. Anyway, I tried the 10 x 100m's last night, and managed one 100m in 1min45sec (after a 500m warmup), then needed way more than 30 sec rest, so I just lapped out the rest of my session (non-squad swim). I'll try doing more of these, at least it's an indicator on shorter distances that I can swim faster than one minute laps - this is encouraging. Thanks again!
