Thread: [question] Routine for a swimming Pool????

Warm-up

100 Meters easy free, 50 M kick (use a board if you have one)

Normally we would start with stroke/breathing drills, not sure how elaborate you want this

Beginner Intermediate is about 1000-1500 M

As follows:

5 X 50 Stroke drill (one arm, hypoxics, etc)

4 X 50 Kick

2 X 100 Pull (means pull-buoy between you legs)
4 X 50 IM (medley of strokes, change each 50....Breast, back, free, butterfly?)

8 X 25 Free on 30 (or some time interval, you start every 30 seconds, RI is included)


200 Free st8 swim, cool down last 50


you will have to adapt the distance to your pool


DP

great - shall see what i can do! - don't have a board yet or a bouy yet - but there is a pool palce down the road.

alsp - Hypoxics? not familiar with that term.

Glad this is what you had in mind....I can offer more W/O's


Typicaly

warm-up
drills
kicks
pulls
interval and or str8 swims
cool down

Hypoxics are breathing drills designed to improve oxygen utilization. For instance....you may breath bilaterally...or on a dedicated side, but only once every 4 strokes....eventually only once every 6. Then in the future, when say doing intervals and breathing normally, you will feel the benefit!

DP

That's way cool DP

Originally posted by w8lifter
That's way cool DP

Thanks w8....

I was gonna post some studies that suggest swimming can add BF, as the body insul8s against the water temperature, so people wouldn't get the wrong idea about cardio in a pool. But not only did that develop into a major flame session on another board, it also doesn't apply to everyone. Those starting out leaner like MR. G here, and those working out with major intensity...don't seem to suffer or suffer much by way of lipogenesis, and swimming as cross training, even recovery training, seems to be very beneficial

DP

Be careful with heated pools though man.. A lot of people don't realize how easily you can de-hydrate yourself in any pool, especially one that's heated. (Serious training should really be done in colder water).

Just something to think about man.. bring a huge bottle of water down with you or something.

Originally posted by Dr. Pain
Thanks w8....

I was gonna post some studies that suggest swimming can add BF, as the body insul8s against the water temperature, so people wouldn't get the wrong idea about cardio in a pool. But not only did that develop into a major flame session on another board, it also doesn't apply to everyone. Those starting out leaner like MR. G here, and those working out with major intensity...don't seem to suffer or suffer much by way of lipogenesis, and swimming as cross training, even recovery training, seems to be very beneficial

DP

Well said ...I can see how that would work

Originally posted by Dr. Pain
Thanks w8....

I was gonna post some studies that suggest swimming can add BF, as the body insul8s against the water temperature, so people wouldn't get the wrong idea about cardio in a pool. But not only did that develop into a major flame session on another board, it also doesn't apply to everyone.
DP

Nothing personal, but had you made that argument, I would have been one of those flamers. I'm sure that as a swimmer, I'm biased but I've always felt that argument was nonsense.

I think people get confused because they're not used to seeing fat people competing well in sports. But with swimming you will sometimes see a person quite a few pounds overweight putting up respectable times. The physics of the sport just allows them to still be able to move well, but as they swim more they are always getting leaner and leaner.