What should i do to get stronger swimming muscles, or to be able to get faster with freestyle?
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lift weights that strengthen your arm muscles
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Great exercise and therapy:\n\n Swimming can be very demanding for the beginner. Exercise at a comfortable pace and periodically check your heart rate to make sure you're staying in your training range. It is recommended that beginners swim 12-20 minutes, building endurance with time. As you progress, you'll be able to swim farther and faster at each workout, and the efficiency of your strokes will improve. Intermediate swimmers should swim 20-30 minutes and advanced swimmers 30-60 minutes. The freestyle, or crawl, is the most efficient and strenuous stroke. A 150 pound person burns about 8.5 calories, a minute, swimming freestyle. \n\n If you get tired, switch to a less strenuous stroke, such as the sidestroke or breaststroke, or swim a few laps with a kickboard. Swimming in sets - 4 laps freestyle, 4 laps breaststroke, 4 laps backstroke, for example - will make your workout more interesting and will exercise more muscles\n\nSimple Water Exercises:\n\n Kick with a kickboard or holding on to the side of the pool to tone legs, back and stomach. \n\n Leg lifts also condition legs, back and stomach. \n\n Holding on to the side of the pool, lift each leg 10 times in front of you, behind you and to each side. \n\n Running in the water increases your heart rate just as swimming does. Many people who can't run on land can run in the water without a problem. Because of the water's resistance, the impact on your body is far less. In chest-high water, begin by running with your hands on your head, and as you become more fit, paddle with your arms. You can alternate running with skipping, hopping, or even dancing in the water.\n\n Bobbing up and down in the water improves breathing and muscle tone. \n\n Treading in the water improves arm and leg strength. Whatever your level of ability, remember to cool down afterwards with water or stretching exercises
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being a swimmer, running  about a mile 3 times a week builds up your endurance, working out with wieghts helps you make your muscles in shape so that it does not feel like your going to did, swim at least 45 minutes 3 times a week, and doing pyramids which build you endurance up and your breathing capacity up, streaching is the key before you swim so you will not tear any muscles...it sucks if you strain your muscles for swimming because it will hurt so bad you probally will not be able to swim.
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A 50 yard free race is mostly the start, turn and finish with a little swimming in between.  Practice those parts with a REALLY TIGHT streamline and FAST HARD kicking.  Never breathe on your first stroke off the start or turn, and don't breathe right before the turn.  My rule is to not breathe in the area between the flags and the wall.  Your first pull out of the streamline should be the hardest & fastest stroke of all.  From your turn, the first pull should be with the arm that is closest to the bottom.  This will pull you over to your stomache & it will be much more powerful. While you are swimming, make sure that you have a long, full stroke that goes past your hips.  DO NOT CUT YOUR STROKE SHORT!  You will not go faster just because your arms are going faster.  You have to keep your technique good & efficient.  I have seen someone swim a faster freestyle with an efficient, slower stroke than someone with faster shorter strokes.  The more water you pull, the farther you go with less strokes.  Iff your stroke is strong enough, you will be ok.\n\nIf these are new things to you, they will feel weird for a while & it might seem like you are swimming slower.  Just give it time & you will get used to it & you will be swimming faster times.\n\nJust practice, practice, practice!!!   AND HAVE FUN!
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Start by swimming the laps you can, each day you swim add one more lap. You will only get better at swimming the laps if you add more distance. Make sure to pace yourself. If you try to go too fast and or get it over with, you are going to tire more quickly. Go a little slower and see if you can add more laps.\n\nYou could try to run more, or do other intense cardio exercises to increase your stamina. Also, make sure to eat right, veggies, protein, etc for more energy. And take a day off each week to rest, so you don't get burned out.
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it really depends what you want to do with your swimming. but here are three good workouts that you can switch around to help you out\n\n300 warm-up\n\n8 x 50 choice\n\n8 x 50 kick with board\n\nprymiad\n50\n100\n150\n200\n200\n150\n100\n50\n\n8 x 25 choice\n\n150 warm down \n\nall swims should have about 10 t0 15 sec rest. when it gets to easy up the yardage you can also swap out the prymiad with a long set like 10 x 100 or 5 x 200 just take it easy and start out slow
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As a fellow triathlete, I would suggest that you join a masters swim team.  You will get a great deal of coaching, conditioning and training that will make you a more efficient swimmer, which is really what it is all about.  Swimming faster does you no good if you leave too much energy in the water and do not have the power and speed left for the bike and run.\n\nMaking sure that you are not fighting the water but using it to your advantage is key.  Learn to draft off others, make sure that you are swimming "within your tube" and within your target heart rate.  This will leave you fresh for the remainder of the race.\n\nTwo great sources are www.totalimmersion.com, an excellent resource for learning to swim efficiently, and The Swimming HUB, swimmingscience.blogspot.com.  Both of these sites will give you the head start that you need to start winning those races.
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The only way to become a stronger swimmer is to swim more! Join a swim team and 4 laps will be nothing after a few weeks.\n\nIt does seem lifeguards are kind of jerks, but they are doing their job and don't want anyone to drown,  Can you imagine what it would be like if you let someone drown?  The person drowning also might be inconvenienced.
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Drink lots of water, be absolutly sure to get ALL of your GOOD fats and carbohydrates, do cardio on an empty stomach but be sure to eat within 10 minutes after your cardio session which should last between 30 and 60 minutes. Get all of your vitamins and minerals.\n\nThe more muscle you have the higher you motabolism you will also burn more calories doing nothing because your muscles require more calories to sustain them so this means to do some form of resistance training.\n\nSwimming is good and will burn fat but your fat will be redistributed to the outer side of your muscles so you will never really get ripped, fat does that to swimmers as a way to insulate the muscles from the cold water.
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Swimming is a better total body workout. By varying your swim workout with drills, you can get an equally strenous lower body work out swimming as you can in a spinning class. Swimming is an excellent workout for your core muscles and smaller muscles that lifting alone would be difficult to work.
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First of all, breathing every third or more strokes is only good for SPRINT swimming. This means short or a few lengths, say 25, 50 or 100m. \n\nIf you have to swim middle or long distance, your body needs more oxygen. That's why you are tired after so many lengths.\n\nMy suggestions to get the most out of your every breath:\n\n(1) Exhale when your face is submerged under water. Use your mouth to blow all the air out of lungs. This way you will breathe in more oxygen when you inhale.\n\n(2) Do bi-lateral breathing. Alternate your breathing side every third stroke. For example, breathe on your right side, then on your left side, then back on your right side, and so on. \n\nIn the beginning, practice bi-lateral breathing on one length of the pool, when you push off. Do normal breaths on the return trip. When you can do bi-lateral breathing on both lengths of the pool many times, that's the time you can TRY to inhale every four, or six strokes.\n\n(3) Increase the efficiency of your lungs by doing diaphragmatic breathing. This is deep breathing by flexing your diaphragm rather than breathing shallowly through your rib cage.\n\nDo this exercise while sitting or lying. Put your hand on you stomach. Inhale, and feel your stomach expand with your hand. Exhale through your mouth.\n\n(4) The legs are composed of big and long muscles that tire easily, hence they need more O2. Try to decrease your kick rate, and to improve your hand stroke to increase your speed.\n\n(5) Practice using hypoxic training. See the link (source) for  more info.
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oh man! soo much! i hadn't swam for two weeks and i had a meet recently. i gained 4 seconds from my fastest time! don't stop or at least take a short jog or something to keep your physical level where it belongs.
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I think so. To swim, you need to use all of your muscles and, depending on what stroke you do, it can be a really good excercise for certain muscles. Also, there are lots of differant levels of swimming that will challenge you more as you learn.
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Practice!  You will get better with time.  Also try swimming slower.  Make sure you have good form so you are not wasting energy.  Breathe with your head to the side; breathe every stroke if necessary.
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the best thing you can do is train...important things in a five hundred are endurance(lol)...being an efficient swimmer which means good flip turns...streamline...and stroke mechanics...start out the race faster than you think you can...some people sprint the end, but that isn't the best way, and i am not saying sprint the beggining just go faster than you think you can
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1] GET A PROPER COACH. 2] PRACTICE WELL..3]WORK OUT YOUR ARMS AND LEGS OUT OF WATER. 4] GET EPILATED ENTIRELY. 5] SOME SWIM COSTUMES HAVE LESS FRICTION. BUT EXPENSIVE..6] LAST BUT NOT LEAST GROW A POSSITIVE ATTITUDE..DONT AFFRAID OF INITIAL FAILURES..
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OH YES!!!!!!!\n\nAnd if you are nto swimming for competition and can swim well enough you could save your life.. then you dont have to learn anything else!\n\nUnless you want to!\n\nBreaststroke is great ... keep on going...\n\nYou can also use a kick board for working out and just kick ...really works out the legs\n\nGood for you any kind of swimming is gerat for fitness!\n\nGood Luck and keep it up!\nWismom