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Okay... so I go to the gym regularly. Whether it's my cardo or weight
training days, I sometimes only get to swim for about 15 - 20 minutes.
Is that a beneficial amount of swim-time? Should I be swimming longer?
How many minutes of consistent lap swimming is required to become
useful for endurance or other training?
Just curious.
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Quoted message said:Okay... so I go to the gym regularly. Whether it's my cardo or weight
training days, I sometimes only get to swim for about 15 - 20 minutes.
Is that a beneficial amount of swim-time? Should I be swimming longer?
How many minutes of consistent lap swimming is required to become
useful for endurance or other training?Just curious.
What kind of endurance you are talking about? Do you want to swim 800m
or 3000m? Whatever the distance, how long do you define an endurance
swim?
Of course, it depends on what you do with the weights but weights and
cardio, one after another is not such a good idea.
One more point, your endurance(!!) gained from swimming will not be of
such a great help for running or biking or such. Swimming depends very
heavily on technique.
HTH.
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Burak
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"Burak Ilter" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:One more point, your endurance(!!) gained from swimming will not be of
such a great help for running or biking or such.
No.
Cardiovascular fitness (the main component of endurance) has little or no
sport-specificity.
Thanks for the tips! Does anyone know of any links showing detailed
cardio/strenght/muscle training programs for swimmers? I also see
people at the pool with a spiral swim training guide. Where can you
get those?
I don't know but I expect that the people who are using them at the pool
will know where they got them from, ask them
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Quoted message said:Thanks for the tips! Does anyone know of any links showing detailed
cardio/strenght/muscle training programs for swimmers? I also see
people at the pool with a spiral swim training guide. Where can you
get those?
jtaylor said:
"Burak Ilter" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...Quoted message said:One more point, your endurance(!!) gained from swimming will not be of
such a great help for running or biking or such.No.
Cardiovascular fitness (the main component of endurance) has little or no
sport-specificity.
What about the other main component of endurance? The muscle fibers.
The aerobic muscle fibers you develop for swimming won't help you much
in biking or running. Yes? I would say Burak's advice is right,
mostly.
"Duke Kahanamoku" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:jtaylor said:
"Burak Ilter" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...Quoted message said:One more point, your endurance(!!) gained from swimming will not be of
such a great help for running or biking or such.No.
Cardiovascular fitness (the main component of endurance) has little or no
sport-specificity.What about the other main component of endurance?
By definition, there can only be one "main" component of anything.
jtaylor said:
"Duke Kahanamoku" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...Quoted message said:jtaylor said:
"Burak Ilter" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...> One more point, your endurance(!!) gained from swimming will not be of
> such a great help for running or biking or such.No.
Cardiovascular fitness (the main component of endurance) has little or no
sport-specificity.What about the other main component of endurance?
By definition, there can only be one "main" component of anything.
Your not very good at this.
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