What we have in common is that we love swimming. That is why, starting today, we want to try and satisfy your curiosity about swimming by offering you a series of tips each week that you can study more carefully, tell other people about or just try out on yourself.
We will begin by looking at the importance of planning.
You have probably wondered countless times why you struggle to come into form or why you never manage to hit your targets, despite all your hard work in training. The answer might be right there before your very eyes: you are not training properly.
In professional swimming the organising of training sessions is called planning. It is a well-known fact that “not planning” means planning to fail.
Whether you are an “amateur”, masters swimmer or competitive athlete, you must ask yourself two key questions before beginning your training,
1. WHAT is my goal?
2. HOW can I achieve it?
If you are an amateur swimmer and are only interested in keeping fit, try and set a short-term goal: I want to swim 20 lengths in less than 12 minutes, I want to swim 8×25 butterfly effortlessly, etc…
In any case, remember the most important advice: vary your training!
– Vary each training session and plan your entire week, attempting to incorporate…
