Have any of you made huge improvments in your swimming within the past couple of years, or since beginning swimming? If so, what were the improvments you made? What were you doing in training in order to make these improvments?
Have any of you made large improvments recently?
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I started swimming for fitness last May, and could barely do two lengths at the Y before I had to hang onto the edge and gasp for a while. I started out doing something like 5 laps in a half hour. After I got up to 15 laps, I started working on going further without pausing to gasp & pant.
Around the end of August I was up to 20 laps (now in a local outdoor pool in San Mateo), and one day I realized that I wasn't tired at the end of those laps, and felt like I could just go on and on. I put it to the test the next day, and I've been swimming a mile a day ever since, in 40 to 45 minutes. I think I could go further, but my lunch hour doesn't allow it.
So I feel like I made a big improvement at the end of August when I jumped from a kilometer to a mile a day in just one day. I haven't sped up at all, but I'm just happy at the mileage.
As for what I'm doing, I've read a couple of the Total Immersion books and I just try to pay attention to my stroke and my position in the water. Finding that balance really helped me get past one lap at a time.
I started swimming for fitness last May, and could barely do two lengths at the Y before I had to hang onto the edge and gasp for a while. I started out doing something like 5 laps in a half hour. After I got up to 15 laps, I started working on going further without pausing to gasp & pant.
Around the end of August I was up to 20 laps (now in a local outdoor pool in San Mateo), and one day I realized that I wasn't tired at the end of those laps, and felt like I could just go on and on. I put it to the test the next day, and I've been swimming a mile a day ever since, in 40 to 45 minutes. I think I could go further, but my lunch hour doesn't allow it.
So I feel like I made a big improvement at the end of August when I jumped from a kilometer to a mile a day in just one day. I haven't sped up at all, but I'm just happy at the mileage.
As for what I'm doing, I've read a couple of the Total Immersion books and I just try to pay attention to my stroke and my position in the water. Finding that balance really helped me get past one lap at a time.
