distance freestyle - (Tag)

By Proteeti Sinha, Swimming World College Intern. While sprinters swim one, two or four lengths of the pool, distance swimmers often swim up to 30 lengths of the pool for one race. That’s a lot of swimming and a lot of staring at the black line. Even though it can sometimes get boring, distance swim...

Distance swimming can be intimidating to swimmers who primarily swim the sprint or stroke events. They are always the last to leave in practice, spend almost no time on the wall, and spend all their time in practice with their own thoughts. While not everyone can or should train distance all the tim...

This is the first edition of Swimming World’s Swim Training Set of the Week features a demanding distance free ladder set. The beauty of this set is that it offers coaches flexibility with the primary focus. The workout can be done as a 500 or 1650 pace set (or both). It’s a grueling, fast-paced cha...

Is Australian Men’s Distance Freestyle Poised for Resurgence? Not too long ago, Australia was a supreme powerhouse in men’s distance swimming. The tradition in the 1500 freestyle began in earnest when Murray Rose, John Konrads and Bob Windle won Olympic gold medals in the event back-to-back-to-back,...

Welcome to Swimming World’s Set of the Week sponsored by Commit Swimming.com! This week’s set is a longer distance freestyle set. Totaling 4,500 yards or meters, this can be a hefty main set to help build capacity early on in the season or during a heavy training period. 400 + 200 + 1 x 100 400 + 2...

This article of "Dryside Training" focuses on specific exercises for individual strokes and race distances.  I believe it's beneficial to train your muscles and energy systems on land to help complement what's being done in the pool.  We also want to strengthen muscles that are frequently used to bu...