After a 24 year absence from competitive swimming I started back two weeks ago. My stroke (crawl) falls apart after about 200 yrds. I can keep going but with a terribly poor stroke. After a short rest my stroke comes back to normal.
I've been swimming a 400 yrd warm up (I'll mix about 50yrds of *** in to save my stroke) then 10 x 50s on the 1:15. After that my stroke is breaking so I swim 25s then my stroke breaks again and I'll swim every other 25 ***. I've been swimming 30 to 45 minutes a day and running the same.
Cardio wise I am in good shape (I've been running everyday for a long time). I can swim *** for long distances with no problem.
Should I keep resting to let my stroke recover or just pound it out? Will swimming *** ever help my free? I would be thankful for any advise. At one time I was "real" swimmer and now I am embarrassed trying to get back.
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When I swam with coaches they said swimming too much *** wasn't good. They wanted our endurance to come from swimming free. Is that not the case these days? These past few weeks I've been thinking what you just said. Thanks for the input.
Please take my "advice" with a grain of salt.
As a kid I was taught to swim *** stroke only, and quite honestly I did not realize that anything was missing from my repertoire - until I started swimming at our local pool as my sole form of exercise(due to several injuries) 2 years ago.
I still don't feel as if there is anything missing from my workouts by not being able to swim the other 3, but I have made sure that the *** stroke I swim is as technically clean as possible. That was the most difficult thing for me in the beginning and I had a hard time making it through 500-1000Y workouts. Now I have built my endurance to the point where I log on average 3000Y swims 5Xweek, 80% *** stroke-the rest kick.
If you are just coming back to swimming do what is the most comfortable for the longest distance and slowly incorporate the other strokes.
*** ist best!:woot:
When I swam with coaches they said swimming too much *** wasn't good. They wanted our endurance to come from swimming free. Is that not the case these days? These past few weeks I've been thinking what you just said. Thanks for the input.
Please take my "advice" with a grain of salt.
As a kid I was taught to swim *** stroke only, and quite honestly I did not realize that anything was missing from my repertoire - until I started swimming at our local pool as my sole form of exercise(due to several injuries) 2 years ago.
I still don't feel as if there is anything missing from my workouts by not being able to swim the other 3, but I have made sure that the *** stroke I swim is as technically clean as possible. That was the most difficult thing for me in the beginning and I had a hard time making it through 500-1000Y workouts. Now I have built my endurance to the point where I log on average 3000Y swims 5Xweek, 80% *** stroke-the rest kick.
If you are just coming back to swimming do what is the most comfortable for the longest distance and slowly incorporate the other strokes.
*** ist best!:woot:
