Swimming Workouts

chrisdavey

If you edit the post, it won't go to the top I don't think. I would just add a new reply.

vikesfanmb

Swimming is my favorite exercise. I recently joined a fitness club which has a terrific pool. I swim every other day and take water aerobics 2-3 times per week. My son was a competitive swimmer in high school and I grew up on a lake, so swimming is in our "genes" so to speak.

Thanks for the websites . . I am going to check them out.

stefvance32

bump! love swimming.

SoCalSwimmerDude

OK Everyone... I've decided to start a blog on MFP. Here's the link: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/TheFranLover. I'll input all workouts in that space. I've added a new one that is a killer as well as the previous 2. If you'd like to view or try some of the workouts, then please subscribe to the blog since keeping track of this thread will get a bit difficult for me and I think the workouts will get lost in the mix. As always, feel free to ask any questions! Thanks!

nikki_zav

Off to the gym to try out one of these workouts!

jrbanta

Bump

SoCalSwimmerDude

Hey everyone... I've continued to input workouts on the blog... 6 total so far:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/TheFranLover

Mrs_TrimWaistFatWallet

Hurray for all the swimmers out there! I do some long distance swims mixed in with some speed medium distance. Today's first workout for me is 6x500m (3k!). Good to see you have some distance workouts in there. Anyone else doing long distance?

SoCalSwimmerDude

Hurray for all the swimmers out there! I do some long distance swims mixed in with some speed medium distance. Today's first workout for me is 6x500m (3k!). Good to see you have some distance workouts in there. Anyone else doing long distance?

You are awesome! I haven't done a main set like that in a LONG time. About 1 1/2 yrs ago, I did a work out w/ a team at the Sherman Oaks/Van Nuys pool (I see that you live in LA and I used to live in LA as well) and we did 5x500's. That's the closest I've been to it since my real training days in highschool and college when we'd do 10k once a week w/ main sets that were usually 4-6k.

On the blog, I try to keep the workouts down in yardage a bit since I have no interest in repeating the craziness I did in highschool, and I figured there weren't too many folks on here that would try them either. Feel free to toss me a swimming workout if you'd like and I'll put it up on the blog!

t_rog

bump

MellowGa

I'll be adding swimming to my workouts, just have to stop my kids from jumping on me when I swim!

jewelstam

Just started swimming lessons....I love swimming and wonder why I didn't do this years ago!

DanceYogaRun

Thanks from another newb. As my kids get more comfortable in childcare, I'd like to take some swimming lessons. I can swim, but I'm not very efficient. I'd like to start swimming for the full body workout and to give my knees a bit of a break.

Mandz1984

It's nice to see a thread on swimming. Ive never swam competitively but I've always loved the water and started swimming 2-3 times a week when I started dieting. It's a god send having a pool near our house in Dublin, as the weather can be so bad in the winter you wouldn't want to be outside so the pool is a nice change of pace to dvd's and the treadmill!

I don't do anything fancy and don't even really time myself, but try to swim lengths for 40-60 minutes at a time. I would just switch between strokes and then do some 'pulling' and 'kicking' in the middle. But it's good to see the terminology and some actual workouts posted. I think I might try a few! Thanks everyone

BerryH

Some great ideas here, thanks!

FYI, what Americans call laps, we in the UK call lengths. Laps to us means going round the pool - like a lap of a racing circuit - hence the confusion!