Warning: This Training Method Will Have You Swimming  

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Great video with wonderfull energy. Motivational and inspiring. I’m 54 years old, I was swimming at 1´50 pace last year and I was swimming around 3k per week. I have been more dedicated to swimming this year with around 6 to 8k per week and my pace went up to 1´43 for a 4k swimming. My pleasure to swim increase much more than my speed and that is the best tip I would give to older swimmers like me: focus to what gives you the most pleasure and do the training workouts that gives you the most fun! I will follow your great advice to increase my volume to 10k or more per week from now on and that won’t be very difficult as I love to swim more and more. I’m not sure I will get to the 1´30 (maybe 1´40 would already be great at my age) but what I’m pretty sure is that my pleasure will increase more than my speed. Thanks a lot!

Your voice sounds like Jesse Pinkman. Great advice and loved the Ironman recap, didn't expect this!

Great Vid Siska! your kiddo is adorable.

As an endurance runner/triathlete/coach for over 50 years this was informative video for the athlete looking for improvement in the water. While volume is important it’s putting the right pieces together with volume. It baffles me to see athletes just aimlessly swimming laps. Even at almost age 70 I use a variety of similar type of workouts and hold just under 1:30 per 100 pace for 2-3 k swims

Really great inspirational video, bro. What's that track playing during the Ironman recap?

Thanks!

I'm at around 1:35 swimming 15K per week. Going to push for 20-25K this offseason to try and break 1:30.

I have access to the pool only 2 times per week, I'll try to increase the distance. I thought that 4k would be enough. thanks for the advice.

@joannemurphy great video with UK 2019 Iron-man to finish

Hi Lucas, you said that for the "zone 3 pace workout" (or tempo type swim: 5x400 +30/45") the perceived effort must be 6,5/7. What does the perceived effort have to be for the threshold swimming workout instead (15x100 +20") ? very very thanks

Here I was crying in front of the mirror 'cause I can't improve my 2:10/100m pace by doing 1 swim a week, 1500m :D.

Well, I am a swimmer only now days. For me, I need at least 2 miles a day to expect improvement in times, and 3 miles is better. No clue as to how that translates to KM.... We gringo/yankees...... Maybe some day we will get with the rest of the world. If I am to lose weight, then for sure 3 miles a day. If you are a distance swimmer, you HAVE to do sprints, and the benefits are huge. That is the whole point about varying your work outs. One thing I notices with the swimmer who was doing the sprints at about 3:40 and I think the same clip showed again later in the video. At the half way point of his pull, his hand is angled the wrong way and he is losing his grip on the water. I saw this a couple of times on videos done by Olympic medalists, one male and one female. I started sticking my hand and arm out the window while driving down the road. It works best at about 70 mph, drag increases exponentially with speed. Ideal hand/pull position seems to be with fingers slightly spread, and hand slightly cupped/convex, like about the curvature of a basketball. Straight hand good, cupped hand better. It makes some sense if you consider the way paddles for the racing skulls are all convex, and so are the paddle board paddles.

1:50 at 6k per week.

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