when swimming e.g free style, you may get tired after some distance e.g 150m. what should you do so that you can go more than a mile?
2006-09-09 00:29:46 · 4 answers · asked by pops 1 in Sports ➔ Swimming & Diving
If you are only swimming 150 meters before you get tired; either you are sprinting the 150 of you really need a lot of conditioning, or a lot of stroke work before you plan on swimming a mile. Swimming distance is a lot different than sprinting. Distance swimmers don't use their legs nearly as much as sprinters. The muscles in your legs are a lot larger than your arms. Therefore they use a lot more oxygen making you tired faster. Also long distance swimmers have a natural pause in their stroke. During this pause they glide in the water. This stretches out their stroke and reduces the number of strokes needed to cover the same distance. The pay off is reduced speed.
2006-09-10 01:04:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Moderate your stroke and swim form.
It could be what I call boredom of mind & muscle. Change the swim style to breast stroke, back stroke. or use only hands or feet during the swim.
Think of a prayer, poem, or song. Use different rythym to swim by.
Get a theme song or few to swim by.
2006-09-09 00:37:14 · answer #2 · answered by LeBlanc 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
practice it over a distance and then build it up gradually. when breathing take as much air as poss in aswell to decrease risk of hyperventilating
2006-09-09 02:23:28 · answer #3 · answered by going for it 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
BREATHING ONE OF THE REASONS ARE THE AMOUNT OF OXYGEN IN THE BLOOD STREAM
THE OTHER REASONS ARE TRAINING ALL EXERCISES, WEIGHT CYCLING , DANCING IS ALL SO GOOD
WE USE TO DO KICK BOXING AS A TRAINING EXERCISE
2006-09-09 00:38:59 · answer #4 · answered by RAMSBOTTOM 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋