How to make swimming interesting?

juddlyness
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My favourite way to exercise is to swim, but I mostly front crawl or freestyle. Do any expert swimmers have any tips for making a regular swim more interesting, or any decent goals or targets to keep motivation up? Advice very much appreciated! :-)
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I swim for 45 min to a hour and time flies. You need to change things up. Watch what the other swimmers are doing. I do 15-20 min freestlye, 10 min breaststroke, 5 min flutter kick with a board, then 5 min backwards flutter kick, 5 min breaststroke kick forward, 5 min backwards, then depending on time, butterfly legs and breaststroke arms--because I love it. I could do a lot more if I had the time, but I like to do an hour of acquagym too. Internet has a lot of workouts if you want structure.2
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I’m sure someone asked this before, you could try searching for the post to view replies which included
- Pyramid swim
- Drills ... so many options....
- kick, pull, swim repeats
- Hypoxic training - try to breathe every 3 strokes for one length then 5 then 7 then 9, repeat 4 x with a break between each of the sets. Or aim to swim a length with as few breaths as possible
- Sprints
- 100m reps or 200s or 400s
- Establish your CSS pace and do CSS workouts (see swimsmooth.com if you’re not sure what this is)
- Attend a masters session or triathlon training session
Follow a training plan eg for a 5k swim or a 10k swim or use a triathlon plan and just do the swim sets from that. Choose sprint, Olympic, half iron or full iron depending on your ability & available time. You’ll find a tonne of free ones online.
There is a website that posts every day a new swim set but I’m afraid I can’t remember it, I’m sure if you google enough you can find it.
Drills include:
Sculling - type 1, 2 and 3
Single arm swimming
Kick on side / superman
Trickle
Catch up
Shoulder tap
Zip
Popov
Broken arrow
Hip, shoulder, head touch
Unco
Sea Anchor
Water polo swim
If you google you’ll find videos to demo all these2 -
I use this, only 1 square inch of all things interesting and exciting. You'll forget that you're actually exercising.1
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Add a shark to the water?
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