For a lot of us folks finding time to swim gets harder and harder each year that we get older. Work, family and the daily stresses of life seems to pile up. When you do find swim you may not be able to swim with a club or team and then it’s lap swim time on one’s own. Personally I find lap swimming the hardest form of swimming. When swimming a lap swim there is no coach to give you sets and no swim mates to push you and keep you honest about completing those sets. Then on top of all that you must navigate around other swimmers of different abilities.
But with all that said a lap swim can be one of the best workouts one can do burning up an average 475 calories per hour. Since not everyone wanting to do a lap swim is at the same ability I’m going to go over some tips to become a stronger lap swimmer for every level of swimming.
The Beginner Lap Swimmer
I was once a beginner lap swimmer after being out of the pool for over a decade. The key is to start small and build. My first few times swimming I just would swim a 50 or 100 meters/yards at a time taking 15 to 30 seconds rest. I was only able to swim a total of 500 meters/yards my first swim but a swim is a swim. Every lap swim I attempted to swim a little bit more each time. …
