Swimming - I'm not efficient
Jordan93
Posts: 336
Hi all,
I've started swimming again on my off days! I have a good level of fitness, I usually cycle at the very least 100 miles a week plus football 3 times a week but i find when i swim i struggle to do more than a couple of lengths before my muscles cant give anymore :oops: . Is it my technique that is causing me to be inefficient?
Or simply that my body isnt used to swimming, I havent swam for around a year?
My heart isn't anywhere near pounding and im not out of breath or even close but my muscles just dont agree
I've started swimming again on my off days! I have a good level of fitness, I usually cycle at the very least 100 miles a week plus football 3 times a week but i find when i swim i struggle to do more than a couple of lengths before my muscles cant give anymore :oops: . Is it my technique that is causing me to be inefficient?
Or simply that my body isnt used to swimming, I havent swam for around a year?
My heart isn't anywhere near pounding and im not out of breath or even close but my muscles just dont agree
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Technique.0
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Doesn't matter, found a video and yes my technique is very wrong 0
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You'll save a lot of effort if you can nail your technique.
However you'll still probably take a few weeks to get used to hard efforts. When I first returned to swimming after being on the bike I jumped straight in with the top swimmers at the local tri club. The swimming wasn't as issue. Getting my t-shirt over my head afterwards was though. :oops:"A cyclist has nothing to lose but his chain"
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I thought I was fit, but when I started swimming again 18 months ago I struggled to do more than 3 lengths without a breather. Now I can manage 50 lengths easily, but it's the boredom that gets me.
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Technique is obviously important but it's worth remembering that swimming uses very different muscles to cycling. If you're doing endurance swimming then you probably won't be using your legs much at all other than for balance, and as we all know cycling does little for your upper body. Swimming relies heavily on your triceps for crawl, and shoulders/chest for strokes like butterfly. You'll start to develop these muscles but it will take time.0
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Yeah, went again tonight and already with my technique coming along nicely I managed it much more easily0
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try here, loads of tips. I thought i "knew" how to swim but in reality i was and still am utter tripe!
http://www.swimsmooth.com0 -
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Hi there.
http://www.swimsmooth.com is by a very large stretch the best, and clearest web site out there. Download the Mr Smooth application - it is a work of genius.
However, none of this is any use unless you've got a coach to watch you and compare your stroke to the ideal. What you thing you're doing with your stroke and what you're actually doing are often two very different things.
Swimming is 90% technique and 10% fitness. The best way to improve the fitness portion is while practising the technique.
Cheers, Andy
ps There's a triathlon section on this forum - this topic might be better off in there.0
