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Swimming Anonymous
So, since I was like 10 till my senior year in highschool, I was a competitive swimmer. Won some state championships and whatever, but nothing that's an actual big deal. Then I went to college and was far too lazy to try to balance school, a social life, and swimming (among other reasons) so I decided not to swim.

Other than some simple exercises in my dorm room and going to the gym (neither on any sort of regular basis at all), I havn't really done much in the ways of exercise for a few months.

Now, after gaining some fat and loosing a fair amount of muscle, I've decided I want to start going to the pool on my own to get in decent shape again. My question for you guys is: what sort of swimming would be most efficient for just gaining some muscle and increasing metabolism.

Also, if you're confused about what I mean by 'what sort' I mean like sprint vs endurance training, short intervals vs long intervals with high intensity, etc, etc.
>> Anonymous
I went to high school with Michael Felps (or however you spell his last name), he was 2 grades behind me. They had a big ceremony after his first Olympics, there was a parade, they held him up on a pedistal as a pillar of the community and an example for everyone. They even renamed one of the streets adjacent to the school after him.

Two weeks later he got nailed for a DUI after blowing through three red lights at 75 miles an hour at 2 in the morning.

So full of lulz... anyway, I have no damn idea about the subject of your post. I just thought I'd share it given the picture you used.
>> Anonymous
tie a hundred pound rock around your neck and then swim a bunch. its a much better workout
>> Anonymous
For someone who has been swimming since they were 10 I'm surprised that you can't make up your own swim sets. But because I'm in the same boat that are, I'm replying to this post.

Swim 2000 yards five days a week. Don't do anything less than a 100. And don't get discouraged with the slow progress. one day of swimming is equivalent to three days of not swimming. So it might take you a whole semester to really feel like you're making progress. Also it's about keeping the routine. You can't work out super hard one day a week, it will really won't do anything.
>> Anonymous
>>64269
I'm sure I can make my own sets, I just wanted to know what would be the most efficient way oh swimming just for fitness. When I was swimming I used to do 7000+ yards a day 6 days a week. That's obviously not necessary now if I'm not competing.

Thanks though, your post was helpful.
>> Anonymous
I have a similar story, I used to swim 5 days a week in like elementary/middle school, then... didn't in high school, but now I'm 1. in college 2. moved to SoCal so I have good access to water all the time, and it's suprisingly hard to get back into the swing of.
>> defective !pMlIcBM3Xg
I swam in HS, nothing awesome but my advice would be to either do all 100s, 200s, or 500s. Long distance might push your muscles to the fatigue point much easier and you don't necessarily have to overwork. Of course you could do 100s and work in doing pushups on whichever end you finish on. Then go right into the next 100, and do that for however much yardage you want to do.. well maybe not all of it since it'd get boring and you'd likely get pretty damn sore after a while.
>> defective !pMlIcBM3Xg
However I don't know differences between doing high intensity short distance to less intense long distance and how they'd effect your muscle growth so anything I say would be speculation.