I swam competitively in High School and College. The distance I used to swim turned me off from swimming for many yrs. 10-15k a day.
After 15 yrs ive decided to try it again. My best masters experience were workouts that averaged 2500. I felt 40 min of hard swimming was manageable with my other daily duties and did not scare me away.
A good warm up. 600 yards.
A kick or stroke set. 600 yards.
Then a core set -1000 yards. 10x 100, 5 x 200 im etc.
Warm down.
Can this cut it 3-5 days a week to get in primo shape?
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What event are you trying to prepare for? Swim it all out and that's a workout. The correct answer to "what distance is the minimum" is the length of your focus event, plus warm-up.
Nobody ever believes this but I've prepared for events 50-500 this way and gotten lifetime bests.
I am training to turn 40 in shape. I have no masters program where I am but I anticipate moving soon and will join a proper program. I raced backstroke mostly in my day.
Today I did 5x 100 swim w/10 sec in between. then 5 x 100 kick, 5 x 100 pull, then 5 x 50 at 90% same interval. meters.
Its my third week and today I felt I could have done double that. lots left in the tank. just no time.
feels good :)
What event are you trying to prepare for? Swim it all out and that's a workout. The correct answer to "what distance is the minimum" is the length of your focus event, plus warm-up.
Nobody ever believes this but I've prepared for events 50-500 this way and gotten lifetime bests.
I am training to turn 40 in shape. I have no masters program where I am but I anticipate moving soon and will join a proper program. I raced backstroke mostly in my day.
Today I did 5x 100 swim w/10 sec in between. then 5 x 100 kick, 5 x 100 pull, then 5 x 50 at 90% same interval. meters.
Its my third week and today I felt I could have done double that. lots left in the tank. just no time.
feels good :)
