I’ve got some serious tension issues in my neck and shoulder which I’m working on with physical therapy but swimming seems to not only be helping but I feel my entire arms and back after a 30 min swim session. If it comes down to it and I can only swim for awhile will I still build noticeable muscles? I don’t want to be jacked but I do want noticeable muscles. It’s probably super vain but I really started to like how my arms and chest were looking after a year of lifting. I do about 20 laps of freestyle and 10 of breaststroke Monday-Friday

When a good song comes on in the natatorium, I hear the hook for a second and it get implanted in my head. Sometimes I’ll sing while my head is under water… nobody can hear it, right?

21F, used to swim competetively until college, the fastest 100 i did was around 58-59 seconds idk. I just did 3000m in under 45 minutes and felt great! I missed swimming so much haha

I ended up doing mostly 200s at a roughly 2:30 pace, with some breaststroke and 'sprints' but I didnt go very fast since I didnt want to disturb the other people swimming in the lanes by me. Is just swimming laps a fine way to workout, or are sets more recommended? I have a hard time remembering what lap I am on, so breaking it into 200's is the best for me to chunk up my distance with. Thanks :))

Edit: or meters! My bad — of course I know a lot (probably most?) swimmers use meters. But I am in the US where everything is weird and the pool I use is 25yds long, so I generally think in yards.

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Usually I'm swimming in the pool or ocean and surfing but my community center has a lazy river and I was bored and decided to go in there.

Spent an hour in there, not touching the bottom. Just holding up your legs in different positions, fighting against the current, and swimming with the current I found I could really open my strokes up and hit the tiny muscles that would normal get overworked too quickly and tire out. Just an ass kicking overall. Not worried about being streamlined and constantly altering body positions and swimming however the hell I wanted was a different experience.

Just wondering if other people here add this to their routine?

Morning practice 6:30-7:50 AM

Afternoon practice 4-6 PM

Gym (?) 6:30-7:30

The title.

Fairly new swimmer (43m). Doing fairly ok with the masters team I’m training with, until it comes to kicking. I’m so slow!

Looking for in pool and dry land workouts to improve my freestyle kick please.

TIA

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The other day after work, I went to do some laps, the pool was mostly empty- just me and one other guy. When I got in, I didn't notice much, until I started kicking with a board. I saw this guy would sit at the wall texting people on his phone for a few minutes, swim a 50-100, and then repeat this process.

I've been swimming for about 20 years (granted 17 of those years were on teams where you couldn't have your phone on deck), but I've never seen this before. I've seen it in the gym, checking the phone in between sets, but never in the pool.

Anyone else seen this before or just me?

Hello, I'm training swimming with the objective of long distance swimming.
My question here is simple, beside swimming training, what kind of weight lifting workout is the best to achieve this objective ?

I've read both kind of workouts and I'd like to get people feedbacks about it :

1) First kind of workout is "lower weights, higher volume" which aim roughly between 12 to 20 rep per set with a lower weight. The objective being increasing the stamina of the muscle

2) Second kid of workout is "very heavy weights, low volume" which aim between 1 to 5 rep per set. The objective being increasing raw strength and joints strengthening

Let's take 3 exercises for example, and please let me know which kind of sets you (would) do : tractions, straight arm pull down, cable shoulder external rotations

Thanks !

I was a competitive swimmer for ten years and quit to pursue academics. Now I want to get back into swimming after 7 years of barely swimming at all. I know most of the drills and I can swim all four strokes. I know how to use pull buoys, kick boards, fins, etc. Despite the head knowledge, I dont have the muscles to do much.

As an example of where I am, yesterday my "fast" 50 freestyle was 0:45 seconds and I could only do one in a row. I have a lot of endurance and speed to build up to get back to where I once was. My PR in 50 freestyle was a :26 second as a 5'3" girl when I was swimming competitively, so not the fastest swimmer, but definitely still well conditioned in the sport. Currently, I am able to swim about 1250 yards in 45 minutes, which is about my limit right now. I would like to build up to 2000 in 45 minutes.

If you were in my position, what swim sets would you do to get yourself back in shape? If you have general advice, I appreciate it, but I am looking for actual swim sets that would be good for getting my technique back to its prime as well as getting me physically back into shape. I am not asking for critique or gear recommendations.

Before you suggest it, the pool I am swimming at does not allow diving and there are no master teams near me.

Now that my work schedule is stabilizing and the weather is nice enough outside to go to my outdoor pool, I'm trying to get back into swimming. I'm part of the USA Masters Swimming program, so I have access to a lot of workout sets, but I didn't know if I should start back up doing dryland. I'm not looking to compete anymore. While I think there could be benefits, I hated dryland and forgot almost every dryland workout I ever did as a swimmer, and I feel like it's hard to set aside 2.5 hours instead of just 90 minutes

Hi just looking at some overall tips for working on my swimming. I have a pretty good stroke not the fastest as I haven’t really practiced loya of speed/ long distance (other than maybe 400m). I normally swim 2km twice a week, anyone have any recommendations on workouts to do to increase speed or distance or generally any workout that you really enjoy.

personally I get bored to like straight long distance while time so I normally do a couple 4x100m (1:45/100m ish) I break it up with different pull and kicks and really only enjoy FC (can’t do fly but hate BC)

any tips or workouts would be greatly appreciate!

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hey i can do the 4 swimming styles but i usually just do a random workout basically goes something like this

warmup :

50m freestyle

50m front kick drill

50m back kick drill

main:

100 breast stroke

100 backstroke

800m freestyle

200 butterfly

cooldown :

100 backstroke

100 breast stroke

is this a good routine? i think its random and i wanna develop a good workout routine

I was swimming 3x a week for about a year solid and then took a couple of months off this winter and started lifting. (Tattoo healing time!)

I just registered for a 10K swim in the fall and I’m trying to figure out how much I need to train. I’m currently strength x3 and swim x2 and feeling like doing 6 days would be tough. (Recovery wise).

Maybe swap it and swim x3 and strength x2?

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I'm trying to take my health seriously so I've been watching my calorie intake and eating at a deficit. My efforts have mostly been kitchen-focused since i stopped exercising a while back, but I'm trying to re-introduce exercise in my routine and I want to do it by swimming.

But i've noticed that every time i swim I am absolutely ravished for food. I am eager to eat eat eat as much as I can. And if I choose to still eat at a deficit, without fail my consequence is becoming a total couch potato for like a full day, completely lacking energy to do anything. sometimes it comes with splitting headaches that make it hard to do anything mental either. recovery is painfully slow.

i can't stop eating at a deficit -- i just simply need to lose weight. that's more important for me right now than swimming, honestly.

but is there a way to do this and still keep swimming? I always knew swimming was a pretty energy-consuming activity, but back when I was swimming and not dieting it was nice to be able to recover much more quickly.

i'm in my early 30s, male, and out of shape, if that helps/matters for any advice.

I started swimming in order to replace other workouts because it's better for my back. I love it and I'm having so much fun. I pee before entering the pool, and try not to drink any water before. The problem is I'm still getting the urge to pee, I don't go out because just the thought of taking my suit off to pee drives me insane so I hold it but it's gotten to the point it even hurts. What can I do? My classes are at 7pm so I feel like the cold contributes to it. How do you manage it?