The key elements of an excellent endurance set are all ticked off by the ladder.ĭuring the shorter distance you will set the technique, with the increase in distance the challenge lies in maintaining that same effective technique thought the distance. The ladder is great tool to introduce to beginners to progressively get comfortable to longer distances and a real challenge for advanced swimmers by adding the instruction to keep the pace precisely the same from the first 50m to the last distance without blowing up. It’s simple, fun, scalable and effective. So how can you make endurance sets engaging, effective and a whole lot of fun? Keep reading and we will give you some of our favourite endurance sets. It teaches you how to pace and to maintain your technique, while making you faster. Endurance trainings is made up of intervals with plenty of variation. If you do them this way, extend arms above the head and roll to your side to breathe.Ĭatch up - using the pull buoy, complete the stroke with one arm before starting the catch with the other arm.When you think endurance training, you think lengthly distances of non stop swimming. I have found these drills to be the most useful when done without the flutterboard. Kick - kicking only - can be completed on front or back with or without fins. Left Arm - left arm only – use a pull buoy keep your right arm extended and stroke only with your left arm. maintain horizontal position in the water ). Pull - using the pull buoy, concentrate on stroke mechanics and body position (i.e. Right Arm - right arm only - use a pull buoy keep your left arm extended and stroke only with your right arm. These shorter sessions will allow you to maintain your form throughout the workout rather than allowing fatigue to ruin your technique. If you have the chance to swim four times a week then I would add in the speed session if you feel up to it - if not, another endurance session will not be wasted.Īs a beginning swimmer you will probably find the greatest results from swimming three or four times per week for a shorter duration rather than trying to do a couple of long sessions. I would instead do two form and one endurance workout with an occasional speed workout used for variety every two or three weeks. When to do endurance, form and speed workouts?įor a beginning swimmer who is working on mechanics and endurance, I would recommend that, if you are swimming three times a week, you do not do the speed workouts on a regular basis. These workouts are not designed to take the place of a coach or masters swim class rather, they should help on the days when you have to figure out your own workout. These workouts are all designed for beginners and range in length from 400m to 1200m – hopefully providing some useful workouts until you are able to tackle the 2000m+ workouts that are easily found online. The workouts that are included are by no means my own – I am only attempting to compile a number of my favorite workouts so that you do not have to waste as much time as I did finding workouts that would work for your swim level. However, over time some of my online searches paid off and that, combined with suggestions from the forums here at BT, finally started to yield some improvement. While swimming I had many visions of DNFing because I would either not be able to finish the swim or I would be completely wasted at the end of the swim. When I did swim, I spent more time standing at the end of the lane than swimming because my sets were too long – I just did not have the endurance. I was frustrated because I was not making progress, so I therefore did not want to swim. So I struggled in the pool – thrashed and splashed but never really made any progress. But after several more searches, I still had trouble finding any workout that was not over 1200-1600m. I assumed that in my ignorance (or overconfidence in my swimming abilities ) I had missed the secret stash of true beginner workouts. I found that I could barely swim 50m continuously – including recovery time I was swimming between 4:00-5:00 per 100m! Since I had so much time to think while swimming back and forth in the pool, I calculated that I would be spending over an hour in the pool for the 1600m workout! Realizing that this was probably not going to be the path to improving my swimming mainly since I could not complete the shortest set (100m ) in the workout I went back online. When I got back into the pool to start training for triathlons (after a substantial fourteen year break from lap swimming ) I found a few “beginner” workouts online and, without stopping to consider how much my abilities may have declined in those fourteen years, I headed to the pool for a 1600m workout. Comments : 38 These workouts are all designed for beginners and range in length from 400m to 1200m – hopefully providing some useful workouts until you are able to tackle the 2000m+ workouts.
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