Hi everyone,
I'm looking for ideas for near/medium/long term goals to set for myself.
I'm 28 and got back into swimming about 5 months ago. Previously I swam for a club team when I was 12. I swim by myself and get in to the pool 4x a week and run 2-3x a week (on off days). A typical workout for me is 3x500 freestyle and then a couple hundred in kicking.
I would like to get a lot faster and swim a lot farther. Swimming as fast as I can, I manage a 34 second 50. I swim a 500 in ~11 min. I can breathe bilaterally and do flip turns in my freestyle sets (it took me a few months to get those into my workouts because I didn't have the cardiovascular system to handle both for a long time).
What are some milestones that you've set for yourself? What skills/times should a beginner be able to accomplish? How about an intermediate swimmer?
Thanks,
Nick
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The advice to work on stroke count is very good. Also, swim technique has changed a lot since you were 12 years old. Watch some good swimmers and see how there is so much more emphasis on the underwater kicking off the walls (everything except breaststroke), how the butterfly is flatter, how the breaststroke body position has changed, how the starts don't pike as much.
Another thing to make note of is the old way that you may have learned to swim freestyle is with your head up and the water level at your forehead, where as now the convention is to have your head in line with your body.
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The advice to work on stroke count is very good. Also, swim technique has changed a lot since you were 12 years old. Watch some good swimmers and see how there is so much more emphasis on the underwater kicking off the walls (everything except breaststroke), how the butterfly is flatter, how the breaststroke body position has changed, how the starts don't pike as much.
Another thing to make note of is the old way that you may have learned to swim freestyle is with your head up and the water level at your forehead, where as now the convention is to have your head in line with your body.
