I am not a competitive swimmer, but swimming every day as my exercise. I'm around serious swimmers, and am curious about their lingo and terms. How many lengths of a pool would it take to equal 6000 yards? Also, some folks refer to "sets". What are those (I assume a certain # of lengths) What actually is a lap? Is that one length, or up and back?
Sorry if this is very basic. I love to swim, but have never been on a team, and would like to learn what the swimmers mean.
Thanks,
Sylvia
Is there a website that you can refer me to?:p
I am not a competitive swimmer, but swimming every day as my exercise. I'm around serious swimmers, and am curious about their lingo and terms. How many lengths of a pool would it take to equal 6000 yards? Also, some folks refer to "sets". What are those (I assume a certain # of lengths) What actually is a lap? Is that one length, or up and back?
Sorry if this is very basic. I love to swim, but have never been on a team, and would like to learn what the swimmers mean.
Thanks,
Sylvia
Is there a website that you can refer me to?:p
Some good questions here:
1) 6000 yards in a 25yd pool would be 240 lengths.
2) A set is referred to a group of repetitions. For example 6x50 Free on 1:00 would be a 'set' that consists of swimming 50 Free 6 times, each time (or repetition or rep in this case) takes you a total of 1 minute. The minute interval means you begin each rep 1 minute after starting the previous one. So if you can swim 50 Free in 45 seconds, you get 15 seconds rest before having to start the next 'rep'
3) I have always viewed lap and length as the same thing but technically a length is the distance from one side of a pool to the other and a lap is the distance from one side to the other and then back to your original starting point.
4) Try here:
www.usaswimming.org/.../DesktopDefault.aspx
Or here:
www3.nbnet.nb.ca/.../SwimTerminology.htm
or here:
ruthkazez.com/SwimmingGlossary.html
Hope this helps. And of course there are many very helpful folks here to answer your questions also.
Welcome to the board!!!
Paul
I am not a competitive swimmer, but swimming every day as my exercise. I'm around serious swimmers, and am curious about their lingo and terms. How many lengths of a pool would it take to equal 6000 yards? Also, some folks refer to "sets". What are those (I assume a certain # of lengths) What actually is a lap? Is that one length, or up and back?
Sorry if this is very basic. I love to swim, but have never been on a team, and would like to learn what the swimmers mean.
Thanks,
Sylvia
Is there a website that you can refer me to?:p
Some good questions here:
1) 6000 yards in a 25yd pool would be 240 lengths.
2) A set is referred to a group of repetitions. For example 6x50 Free on 1:00 would be a 'set' that consists of swimming 50 Free 6 times, each time (or repetition or rep in this case) takes you a total of 1 minute. The minute interval means you begin each rep 1 minute after starting the previous one. So if you can swim 50 Free in 45 seconds, you get 15 seconds rest before having to start the next 'rep'
3) I have always viewed lap and length as the same thing but technically a length is the distance from one side of a pool to the other and a lap is the distance from one side to the other and then back to your original starting point.
4) Try here:
www.usaswimming.org/.../DesktopDefault.aspx
Or here:
www3.nbnet.nb.ca/.../SwimTerminology.htm
or here:
ruthkazez.com/SwimmingGlossary.html
Hope this helps. And of course there are many very helpful folks here to answer your questions also.
Welcome to the board!!!
Paul
