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swimming endurance follow up

Ok...so I am following up to my recent "swimming endurance" post because I want some feedback on some of the workouts I am doing and what I should I expect. One thing I know from experience it that I can feel way more confident and comfortable in the pool that on the OW. And although I feel better than last year, its still seems like a different story in the OW.

Anyway I am starting to do workouts like this:

1) 10 x 100 with 10 sec rest between

2) 200m warm up 20 sec rest

8 X 100 with 10 sec rest

200m cool down

And so on...

I am gearing up for the 500, 400, 300, 200, 100 that geo chuck suggests. That seems like a good one. I really, really want to improve my swimming and these workouts are helping. Thanks!!

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Submitted by geochuck on April 20, 2006 - 12:15

Several years ago after a very long lay off I would go to the pool and do 2000m workouts twice a day with one day of rest per week. Doing a real mixed bag, eg. swim 5 min rest 1 min then swim five min and continue a varied speeds until 2000m were covered. Next day just swim 2000m, another day all 100s another day all 200s then 400 repeats. In six weeks I was ready to start real heavy duty workouts. As the racing season started then to the open water 1hr swims, 2hr swims, never more then 3 hr swims.

Yes I do like the swim downs from 500 down to 100. It is swimming plus your other activities that will get you ready. It sounds like you are on the right track.

Submitted by Wildhawk on April 24, 2006 - 09:01

I am having the same endurance problem and I am somewhat of a beginner. I am fine for the first few laps, but then my form goes to slop and I get exhausted. Problem is that the pool I swim in is short (18m) and I am not able to get to the pool all that often (no more than 2x week).

Submitted by geochuck on April 24, 2006 - 09:23

I lived in the north for a few years and the closest pool was 3 hours away. But had an on call job. The only thing to get my training was a set of wall pulleys that I fixed to come down from the ceiling set up in a walkin closet. Had a full length mirror on the wall and stroked in the closet for 2 hrs a day. When the Ice went out of the river I could finally come out of the closet and swim in real water. Ice on the lakes and rivers from Sept to April.