Trying again by jumping it up...anyone?

Has been recently discussed at length, do a forum search for most recent thread with great tips.

Maybe it's just me but tethered swimming is just too boring and also it seems a bit unnatural. Despite only 40 ft, I would much rather just swim back and forth. I am a life-long swimmer and abso love the feel of the water sliding over my body as I move through it. At one point, I had to swim for a full year in a 50 ft pool so I think I could handle 40 ft. Look at it as an opportunity to develop a flip turn, with no one there to laugh at your attempts. Swim repeats of 1, 2, 4, 6, X lengths and extrapolate to the standard 50/100 yds. If you do 15, you'd be right at an even 200 yds. Swim w/ your pull buoy, work on your kicking both w/ and w/o a k-board, try to swim some of the other strokes. You could even buy your own pace clock, which you really need b/c you don't have anyone to race against, unless your wife and/or kids swim. Keep a log of your best times for 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, etc, lengths and try to improve your times. The pace clock is your best friend. :)

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How wide is the pool? If you don't want learn to flip turn, you might be able to swim in an oval. I do that in pools that aren't super long but are wide enough to make a sweeping turn. I actually prefer that, I find it gives me a pace more representative of open water. I swim around the outside of my 31 foot round pool too.

Hmm. Good thought. It’s 40 ft long and 6 ft (7?) Guessing- need to actually measure it.

I know how to flip and where, but damn if that push off the wall has any real grace or aim, LOL —

Also, thanks for the link to the previous discussion, whoever posted that.

Yeah, I can flip turn too, but it's ugly and has no use in OWS, so I don't put any effort into making it better. I only swim when my personal pool is open, so it doesn't really matter.

Like another stated, do a search on this forum as there have been some lengthy discussions on this. That being said, I have a 40x20ft pool, and if I swim in it I mainly focus on drills, it's actually perfect for that. Have tried the tether a few times, but just hated it for many reasons and could never get past about 5 minutes. Work on your flip turns, watch some youtube videos. or just do a breaststroke-style turn. I actually prefer this when swimming in this pool, as a proper flip turn will put me 1/2 way down the pool. Do drills and drills with some light swimming between sets.