Subject: RE: Swim based or Balanced Training Plan? To me, a swim-based training plan would have some pretty serious swim workouts in it. If you're just getting started in the pool, those probably aren't for you.
Yet, you will definitely want to make swimming more efficiently a focus of your training over the next 16 weeks. When you say "very little swim experience," I'm assuming that you are like most people (myself included ) starting out and that swimming 50m can leave you out of breath. Check out Total Immersion, perhaps find a local swim group or swim coach for a few pointers/lessons, etc. If you start now and get three good swim workouts in per week, you will likely be fine for the 1500m swim in October. |