best way to work out for swimming?

Question

ok i want to get into the JR. Olympics and my friend and i need the best work out tips there are any suggestions?

Answer 1

Swimming is the best way to workout for swimming. For JO's you should be putting in at least 4 hours a day 5 to 6 days a week. If you can't swim that much then supplement with cross training. Include running and very light weights. Be careful with the weights because you don't want to screw up your body's lean muscle mass by bulking up. Cardio training is always good but nothing mimics swimming in a perefct form.

Get in the pool!!! Often!!! Dedicate yourself. Know the times you have to make and keep them posted as a constant reminder to yourself. When you make your times, celebrate!

Train for your events. Sprinters should focus on their sprints. Distance swimmers focus on distance. Ensure you have the best technique possible by enlisting your coach's opinion often and applying his or her advice to your stroke. Be mentally prepared for anything. Push yourself. Half of the battle is overcoming the plateau where you feel like you're just not going to get any faster. Break on through and be encouraging to your teammates as well. Keep a positive attitude and enjoy yourself but always keep your eyes on the prize (so cliche, isn't it?!)

Good luck!!!

Answer 2

There's a lot of specifics that go into training for swimming and some of them aren't going to be that easy.

First of all, you should obviously be swimming to a set workout. Swimming on aimlessly is incredibly psychologically harmful for your swimming. Sure, it's fun once in a while, but if you or someone else makes a workout that you follow for that day you'll be able to focus more on what part of your body you want to work that day. You should be using a swimming implement (kickboard, pull buoy, fly fins, ect..) about once every 4 things you do. Set realistic intervals for yourself so that you're challenging yourself a little bit but not making yourself go crazy over it. Take a 2 minute rest about every half hour and get a drink of water or whatever you need to do. For bringing your workout to the pool you should get one of those one-page transparent covers that any office supplies store should have. Put the workout on paper and put the paper into the cover and then once you're at the pool get a spare kickboard wet and put the cover with the paper onto that kickboard. It works really well and a lot of teams and clubs use that.

Next, you still need someone watching you swim to work on your technique. They should obviously be familiar with all the swimming strokes and should know what you can do to get you better. You should also practice your starts too! Starts are where about 95% of all DQs get DQed and they can make or break you in a tight race. Work on your relay starts too, you never know when a coach might put you in a relay in one of the relay-start position in the relay. The watching person should observe these as well to make sure that you're making improvements. Also, make sure that when you touch the wall at the end of the race you touch with the very end of your fingertips. I've seen WAY too many close races lost by people not extenting their hands all the way and it's really important as well.

I know I should've said this first but you really should be stretching before you swim. Do one really good set of stretching about 10-15 minutes before you swim or do dryland and then also do a quick general stretch right before you swim. I was a bit of a skeptic of stretching for a long time but then this past winter I was waiting for the line judge to say "Swimmers, step up" but he took a long time saying it, he was talking to the scorers at the scorer's table, and so I started stretching because I knew that from standing there my muscles were tighening up from being anxious for the swim. So I got up and I swam my personal best, cutting my time by about 4% (it was a 50y free, it wasn't like going from a 5:45 in the 500 free to a 5:25 in the 500 free).

Lastly, you really need to be eating well both in practice time and at meets. You can drink an energy drink (ex. Monster, Cocaine) about an hour or 2 before the meet but they really don't do much for you in the water. Of course eat pasta the night before a meet, they're loaded with polysaccharides which dissolve slowly in your stomach and digestive tract for an extended energy drive. The reason why they say you should eat a bowl of Wheaties every morning is because they're loaded with monosaccharides which give you a lot of quick energy for burning and therefore are your extra push. Your cells' mitochondria make a lot more ATP for burning when you eat well and that's the stuff that gets you going. Also, drinking a sports drink will also help as your potassium-calcium pumps in your nerve cells will become very active as well and therefore your body's response to things will be increased allowing for better overall performance in the water.

Answer 3

The steady beyond traumatic of “swim” is “swam”: “I swam to the island.” However, whilst the phrase is preceded through a serving to verb, it alterations to “swum”: “I have swum to the island everyday.” Have is the serving to verb right here, for that reason "swum" will have to be used. Swam and swum are each beyond traumatic. Swim is reward traumatic and long run traumatic.

Answer 4

I think endurance training is best.

Answer 5

get a personel trainer. if you have previous swimming exprience, that would be even better. good luck!

Answer 6

Verticle heeps.
Jogging,
Stretching
Cycling.
Scots
Pull ups::