How not to get bored swimming lap after lap without stop?
Former Member
Some of you swim like 3km or 10km without stop. It's good feat, but even when I swim for 200m I get bored, so I wonder how come you don't get bored immersing yourself underwater doing the same basic thing repeatedly for an hour or more? If I walk long distance I can still have views to look, but swimming in a 25m pool??
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In doing some distance training last summer, I did the long *boring* sets with lots of other swimmers on a team. I was actually never bored. In surrounding myself with people much better than I, I was fascinated by watching what they did to go so fast. Each long set had multiple purposes. The intervals were always changing so you actually had to think about when you would be leaving next; your speed would need to vary to make the intervals; some parts of the set would be descend or build; some parts would be active recovery so you could focus on DPS and stretching it out. A great coach can come up with some very creative sets. I found that the time would fly by. . .
In doing some distance training last summer, I did the long *boring* sets with lots of other swimmers on a team. I was actually never bored. In surrounding myself with people much better than I, I was fascinated by watching what they did to go so fast. Each long set had multiple purposes. The intervals were always changing so you actually had to think about when you would be leaving next; your speed would need to vary to make the intervals; some parts of the set would be descend or build; some parts would be active recovery so you could focus on DPS and stretching it out. A great coach can come up with some very creative sets. I found that the time would fly by. . .
