Hi, been off and on swimming for the past year. I enjoyed swimming as a way to relax from running. With no focus on the form, or other parts incorporated with swimming. In five weeks the local YMCA is having an indoor triathlon, and considering entering the event. Two questions haven’t swum since September with an average of about 2 miles and one day a week. The swim is ¼ of a mile long would I have enough time to prepare for that distance in five weeks? Second question is waiting till the summer to hopefully be involved in learning swim techniques to help my swim style. Is there any video links that might be helpful in learning different strokes and breathing online? Thanks for the feedback.
400M compared to 3000M? Ooodles of time. You can go from 50M to 400M in 3 weeks.
Get back to the pool and just get your ‘feel’ for the water back and your efficiency of form. If you train using 12 x 100M sprints (w/30 seconds Rest Interval) from now until race day (which becomes 3×200 + 6×100 —> 6×200 —> 3×400). On race day I’d think you should be out of the water in about 6-7 minutes.
Google Shinji Takeuchi on YouTube — he uses Total Immersion swim technique….
March 9th, 2010 at 10:40 pm
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March 9th, 2010 at 11:13 pm
400M compared to 3000M? Ooodles of time. You can go from 50M to 400M in 3 weeks.
Get back to the pool and just get your ‘feel’ for the water back and your efficiency of form. If you train using 12 x 100M sprints (w/30 seconds Rest Interval) from now until race day (which becomes 3×200 + 6×100 —> 6×200 —> 3×400). On race day I’d think you should be out of the water in about 6-7 minutes.
Google Shinji Takeuchi on YouTube — he uses Total Immersion swim technique….
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Ironman.
March 9th, 2010 at 11:21 pm
YES!!! Absolutely enough time! So to clarify you would swim 2 miles once a week? 3300+ yards in a workout? All free? Even if you didn’t swim that much and you are rusty, just getting in swimming an easy 100yds or meters on day one and adding 50 yds/mts to it the next time you would be up to 500 mts in 5 weeks going once a week.
I would recommend swimming 2-3x/week though. If you can do 1500/workout try and get in some 200s and 300’s with 20-30sec rest between repeats. Concentrate on breathing bilateral and breathing every 1,2,3,4 and 5 strokes by 25’s on one repeat. Mix it up. This teaches controlling your breathing and creates a rhythm in your stroke. Then focus on DPS (distance per stroke) on other repeats by counting your strokes per 25 and reducing that stroke count throughout the 200 or 300.
The best video I’ve seen for freestyle (and there are vids for all strokes actually) is by David Marsh (Auburn head coach) featuring Rada Owen (’00 200 freestyle Olympian).
http://www.championshipproductions.com/cgi-bin/champ/p/Swimming-Diving/Swimming-Faster-Freestyle_MD-02210A.html
Also, Google "Swimming with Natalie Coughlin" She has a bunch of videos on Utube.
I’m a former Div I swimmer and a 1st yr masters swimmer, this will be my first year doing tri’s. I swim at St Peters college and Pershing Field pool in Jersey City. I teach private swim lessons on the side too.
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March 9th, 2010 at 11:33 pm
Swimming is a good cardio excercise. For triathlon I’d recommend go for swimming every alternate day or you can aslo keep swimming for off-days during the training.
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http://www.triathlontrainingschedule.org