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Swimming training for newbie

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  • 19-05-2015 10:53am
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    guile4582
    Registered Users Posts: 1,139 ✭✭✭


    Hi All
    looking for hints/tips to improve my swimming.

    I recently have taken to it after getting some long overdue lessons to improve technique. My teacher at the time told me to go with a length building routine using front crawl and backstroke - doing 1 length rest, then 2 rest, then 3 rest then 4 rest, then 4,3,2,1

    After a while i feel i have mastered this and from having a mixture of strokes have found I can now do this with relative ease with front crawl only

    so my question is, what next? 5 front crawls then rest x 4?

    any suggestions welcomed


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    Doeshedare
    Registered Users Posts: 153 ✭✭Doeshedare


    It depends on what you are trying to achieve but......
    .....If you want to focus on front crawl/freestyle then you could do worse than look at the Triathlon/Duathlon/Adventure Race forum and in particular the 'Swimming Tri for Beginners' thread - dont be put off by the triathlon bit asI think its goal is get anyone to be able to swim 1500m comfortably.
    It gives week by week swim sets based on going 3 times a week (generallly accepted as the min needed to improve) with one set based on drills (technique), one short set and one long set. Although the thread has just ended you would have 26 weeks of training plans there.
    Almost everywhere I have ever looked has suggested focused intervals as in the thread and kind of like what you are doing already rather than getting into the pool and just swimming continuously (what a lot of people do and what I did first). The intervals can be short and fast or more endurance based.
    I used Swimsmooth alot at the beginning (http://www.swimsmooth.com/beginner.php) and bought the book which has some training sets at the back.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057321888


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