I travel 5 days per. I decided to return to swimming and attempt to use the hotel pools. I have a kick board/power fins/mittens I can use and have ordered a teather to attach to the pool ladder. Anyone out there ever heard of a good workout developed for this kind of scenario?
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I have also had to make-do with hotel pools more than I want. I try and work on flipturns. Try swimming for as long as possible doing a flipturn on each wall. In some pools I flip, take a stroke, and flip again, but I really concentrate on getting a good flip. If the pool is deep enough, vertical kicking is always a good idea. It is also good to do vertical kicking if there are other people in the pool with you. I usually do 30 sec. kick and 15 sec. rest with my arms crossed, arms on head, and arms in streamline. If the pool is shallow, a good cross trainer is to do vertical leaps. Just crouch down and explode off the bottom of the pool. This will help build your leg muscles and it helps with learning how to explode of the diving block.
I hope this helps,
JJ
I have also had to make-do with hotel pools more than I want. I try and work on flipturns. Try swimming for as long as possible doing a flipturn on each wall. In some pools I flip, take a stroke, and flip again, but I really concentrate on getting a good flip. If the pool is deep enough, vertical kicking is always a good idea. It is also good to do vertical kicking if there are other people in the pool with you. I usually do 30 sec. kick and 15 sec. rest with my arms crossed, arms on head, and arms in streamline. If the pool is shallow, a good cross trainer is to do vertical leaps. Just crouch down and explode off the bottom of the pool. This will help build your leg muscles and it helps with learning how to explode of the diving block.
I hope this helps,
JJ
