Swimming For Exercise

Swimming for exercise

The warm up takes up the first ten minutes or so. During this time, you’re reminding your body what it’s like to swim. You’ll find your rhythm in breathing, and ease yourself into the workout. “Be sure and exhale anytime your face is in the water and don’t hold your breath. Start nice and easy with your arms and legs and gently build your speed as you work through your warm up,” she says.

The pre-set allows you to practice the skills you’ll do in the rest of the workout. Some workouts merge this with either the warmup or the following set. The pre-set might include drills where you concentrate on moving your arms in a certain way, or doing entire laps of just kicking. This is the best time to work on learning a new skill, or fixing a flaw in your technique, because you’re warmed up enough to work hard, but you’re not tired yet.

The main set is just what it sounds like. It’s the longest part of the workout, and it’s where you’ll work the hardest. If you practiced a skill in the pre-set, you’ll have plenty of chances to put it to the test in the main set.

The cooldown is the final segment, usually five to ten minutes of easy swimming.

If you don’t have a coach to put a workout together for you, tons of swimming web sites list workouts you can do. Some of my favorites are workouts for triathletes, since many triathletes started as cyclists or runners and are relative beginners at swimming. Their workouts, like the ones in this plan from Active.com, tend to be simple but effective.

For more traditional swimming workouts, masters clubs tend to share daily or weekly workouts with their members. If you don’t have access to a club,   there are free websites. Each one has options for three different levels: if you’re a super swimmer, you’ll do the level “A” workouts, and if you’re not quite at that level, you’ll do “B”. Newer swimmers should start with the “C” level options. Here’s an example of a “C” level workout You’ll also probably want a pair of goggles. They should fit snugly around your eyes, and you can test this in the store by squishing them onto your dry face. If they fit, you’ll be able to create enough suction that they stay momentarily stuck to your face. You can swim without goggles, but you’re more likely to bump into the side of the lane since you can’t always see where you’re going.

A swim cap isn’t a must, but it’s a good idea if you want to keep long hair out of your face, or if you want to protect your hair from that greenish tint it can 

Once you’ve started swimming workouts, you’ll probably start noticing that you have room for improvement. If you get tired easily, the problem isn’t necessarily your endurance. In swimming, good technique is important so you’re not fighting against the water any more than you have to.

The swimming lessons and clubs we mentioned earlier are great ways to work on your freestyle or other strokes. They’re also a good place to start to learn competition-oriented skills like how to dive in at the start of a race, and how to do those somersault-looking flip turns to save time when you need to turn around.

If you’re interested in competition, masters teams organize swim meets, and you don’t have to be an expert swimmer to participate and have fun. Or for a different kind of goal, you can look towards triathlon training or swimming-only endurance events, where swimmers do their thing in open water such as a lake. (Even so, they usually do most of their training in a pool.)

As with any type of exercise, you can choose swimming goals that you like, develop a plan to train toward those goals, and improve the skills and fitness you need to keep working toward your goal and having fun. But first, you begin by jumping into the pool. 

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