How To Plan Swimming Workouts

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Hi, so now were going to talk about how to plan swimming workouts. The first thing you need to think about when you're planning a swimming workout is what your objective is. What your goal is, your aim.

And how long you've got to get to that aim. You know, you've got to be realistic in terms of what you can achieve with the time that you've got and what level you can reach. But first some fundamental things that you need to do is before you even start to plan that is get some base time and some base level of fitness to know where you're currently at.

Once you've done that you can start to device a workout, which basically would include a set of drills which would work out muscles specifically. So for example, we would work out upper body by doing hust the arms and the lower body by doing just the legs, we call this specificity. We also got to think about the intensity of the work out.

You've got to try and keep always a high work rate and when you find that things have become easy in your work out you've got to reassess that and maybe increase the work load, increase the intensity, or increase the duration of your workout. We also want to be considering interval training where you have rest periods. This is a good thing to use because you can reduce the rest periods as well as the actual duration of the exercise.

So this is a good drill to use or a good training principle to adopt when you're doing swimming training or any other sport training. For swimming in particular. You can use a medley workout, using all four strokes.

So you're getting an all around workout as well as working on technique of each of those strokes. Okay, training aids and equipment can be used in swimming. Using pool buoys, to correct a body position.

To hold your hips up to the right position and even normal floats that you can use to assist you in your workouts as well. The general rule is to think about your goal target, how much time you've got available to you and how realistic do you make the sessions that you plan. To increase the work load and intensity as you're going along.

So not to become static but to always be working much harder. This is the same as if you were working out in the drill. To develop that muscle mass you need to overload those muscle and work out a bit harder.

And then there's regular reassessment of the drills and how you're using them, and your time are improving is what you need to think about. And finally, like Theo said before, you never want to overdo it and never try and cramp in too much in at one time because you're more likely to injure yourself. Visit us at www.SwimmingLessonsLondon.co.uk