Hi guys and thanks in advance for your help.
How long with hard work would it take for a newbie struggling with 350 m 3 times a week to be able to swim 1000m
If needed to in a hurry and what kind of training regime would i need???
Thanks again
At least one of those sessions needs to be a swimming lesson (ie. with a swimming instructor).
If you are struggling to swim 350m, your technique is obviously not very good. You will only get better by improving your technique and you will need an instructor to do that.
Once the instructor sees you swim, he can give you an idea of how long it will take.
Like 2 weeks. Get a pull bouy and get in the pool. Seriously, when I first started swimming I couldnt swim 200 yards at a time. After a couple of weeks using a pull bouy I could swim 1000 yards without stopping.
I’ve helped a friend (very fit runner) who was in a similar situation: he could not swim front crawl more than 100m. He swam 2 times, then 3 times a week. First part was to learn how to relax, balance, and breath / blow air comfortably. Efficient movement was introduced slowly. In about a month he was comfortable enough to swim about 1km, though at this stage distance was never the goal but more a nice byproduct. Your ‘engine’ is probably much better than your skills, so if you get out of breath it’s likely not because you are not fit but because you are wasting energy and not breathing. Get a swimming instructor, forget distance and time targets for a while and you will surprise yourself. Good luck, patience is a good ally there 
Thanks guys for your honest input
I start swim training with the masters tonight
Thans again
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Pull Buoy Addiction - Are you one of those people that sighs with
relief whenever a pull buoy set comes along? You put that little sucker
on and suddenly you are in your element? During swimming sets do you
look longingly at your precious float, perhaps reaching out from time
to time to touch it between repeats - just for reassurance? You suffer
from PBA. The only cure for PBA is to correct your body position. When
you feel a need to don the infectious little styro-virus you have
undoubtedly broken one of the prime points of maintaining proper body
position. As George Zimmer sez “I guarantee it!”
From one newbie to another, sometimes swimming (or not being able to) can be partly mental. From time to time I would drop in the pool to swim just for a different type of workout and a way to try and keep in a bit of shape - no formalized swim teams or anything like that, just basic swim lessons when I was a kid - plus some surfing. The best I could do was a 50 freestyle and then 50 breast stroke type laps. I could do this routine for up to 1600…but there was no way I could do 100+ of freestyle, my arms just could handle it…or so I thought. One time I set a goal to do a few 100’s freestyle - which I was able to do with some easy breast stroke laps in between to rest. The next time swimming I wanted to try 250 freestyle and ended up doing 500 - I was pretty excited considering I never though I could actually do it. What I noticed is the first few laps were difficult and after a bit of a warmup, the rest became pretty easy and my arms no longer bothered me. I then started reading ST threads on swimming and watched videos on form and have been working on cleaning up my form. So at least for me, it was more mental, that the swim was uncomfortable and made me “think” I would never be able to do the distance when in all actuallity I had the physical ability to do it. So in all reality I went from only being able to swim 50 freestyle to 1600 freestyle in a matter of a week. Three months later I’m at 2500 and could easily do more, but I’m only adding additional distance slowly.
you could also just be a sinker 
Michael