Subject: True beginners swim help Yeah, the coaches will have workouts and drills to do but some of us just like to swim without trying to do 6X365 with a triple lindy and trying to keep all that in mind. We're not really concerned that much about standing or being able to beat Andy Potts out of the water.
Now if you fit this and you just swim front crawl for a lot to all of your workouts, here's something that honestly can help. It got me to drop 25 seconds per 100 yards from when I started.
Say, just to have a number to start with, you swim an average of about 1:00 per 50 (one lap ) That's probably 2:02-2:05 per 100 or somewhere thereabouts.
You want to get a little faster. Okay, odds are your first lap after a break of :30 or longer is somewhere near :50. so your laps look like:
:50
:58
1:01
:59
..
Pick a number, lets see about cutting it down just a shade in a week or so. Remember the number :58 swim your laps until your lap takes at or longer than :58. You will be pushing it, stretch out and try to reach the can off the top shelf with each stroke and see if you can:
:50
:55
:57
:58
(take a break for :30 )
:50
:58
(take a break for :30 )
:52
:55
:56
1:00
(take a break... )
keep that up for your time, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, etc.
After you can keep below your target time for 5 laps at a shot for a week, drop the number.
Rinse, repeat.
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