Two swims in one day -- good or bad?

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@floathammerholdon | @partners_in_tri

when i made my big move from average swimmer to good swimmer one characteristic of that 9-month period was a number of days where i swam twice. maybe 3 or 4 days a month i swam twice in a day. that's a very good way to get better.

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Dan Empfield
aka Slowman

This is awesome! Just noticed it now. Thanks for posting.

I've jumped into this challenge late. I'm only on week two.

Question about the two minute base. Does that mean taking a :20 (or so) per 100? In other words, I'd have to swim 400 yds in 6:40 in order to be able to take 1:20 rest and leave on 8:00. Is that correct?

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Chris Harris

I need to improve my swimming. I need to approach it like I do my running and marathons. You have to put in the miles/laps. I like to build my stamina in running ... so now I am building my stamina in swimming. 3 weeks ago I upped my swimming to 4 days a week and started each session with 1000m continuous swim.

Then I found this. Not sure how I had missed it the first several weeks.

I believe Dan knows what he advises. So I am doing them without questioning. Sometimes I struggle with terminology ... but hey, that is what google is for. Every day I do his plan. M-F ... 3:40am ... I am in the water and I do all 5 of them each week. Trying to also swim a long, continuous swim either in the pool or lake on the weekend.

I very much appreciate his taking the time to post these.

Agree with all the other comments, thanks Dan for putting this together. I got back into the pool after a few years off and despite my strength improving over the last few weeks my stamina has stayed the same - I realised that I was leaving too long between reps to catch my breath rather than doing it "on the top/bottom" or much shorter gaps in between.

I'm only a few weeks in but that has improved me already, and the fact that I just have to get in the pool and swim what I'm told without thinking makes it easier also.

Keep it up

This. I stood at the end of the pool this morning. 3:40am. My training partner was a no-show (he worked late into the night). I thought ... "I don't really want to swim today". The 'Demons of Doubt' started working in my head. Then I thought ... 'don't think ... just do the workout'. I did. Week 6 -- 4th Workout. Less than an hour later I was done. Time to go run.

It helps to have a set plan laid out. I don't have to rationalize or question it. I just follow it. I needed that little boost to get over the 'reluctance hump' this morning. Dan's plan provided that.

X2 !!!