For amateur and master-swimmers: How to make your workout more effective. Useful tips on how to optimise a workout program.
Despite the training season already started a few weeks ago, it’s never too late to improve your preparation strategy. If you are a professional swimmer, your workout plan will obviously be planned by your coach, but if you are an amateur or master swimmer, then some good advice on how to improve your workout, never does any harm.
Answer truthfully. How much time do you want to dedicate to pool-time workouts?
If your answer is less than 4 hours a week, then these suggestions are for you!
With a few good tips, a good workout program and a bit of determination, even 4 hours a week can give you some great results.
Before getting started, I’ll give you 3 tips that you absolutely have to follow if you want to improve your workouts:
1. Constancy. You’ve said that you want to dedicate about 4 hours a week which means about 1-1,5h every 2 days? Well, in that case, it has to be the case week in and week out. There can’t be any excuses like “I’m too tired today, so I’m not going” or “what’s the point of going if I can only stay an hour?” or “I don’t really feel like going today. Maybe I’ll go tomorrow…
