Could someone give some tips for a 1500m freestyle race?

Question

Could someone give some tips for a 1500m freestyle race?

Answer 1

In the first place, the question to you would be, are you already a swimmer? And honestly, I never knew or heard of anyone swimming the butterfly for 1500m, usually its the FRONTCRAWL that is swum. Well, if you are a swimmer, then I would say, my tips for you would be PACING and techniques.

Having good technique is the best way to start and in long distance swimming, the kicking motion ( frontcrawl ) is different from sprinters. You conserve energy by NOT kicking hard the whole time. Do the propeller kick which is a criss-cross kicking action, where it helps with propellation and twisting of the body and not use up all your energy.

Next, you need to swim it enough times and train enough mileage to know your own strength and weaknesses. When you know your body well and when exactly it is you get tired and how much energy you still have, then you know how to keep a constant pace, when to peak, and when to give it all out.

With all these, I cannot gurantee that you will be able to do it. Long distance swimming is about having a good coach who can give you proper training programs and mileage, check your techniques, and monitor your heart rate and timing. But if you want to train on your own, I would say just try to swim more often and cover enough mileage and build up that stamina. The more you train, the more mileage you cover in each training session, the better you will get.

Strength training ( gym ) wont help much at all without the actual mileage training in the pool. And too much gym training ( and wrong workout ) for a swimmer can actually do more harm than good because the mass of the muscles would mean more hard weight on the swimmer. Swimmer's gym training is more for conditioning and toning and not building.

Anyways. good luck and have fun. I would like to go into more details but it will take too long and too much detail for one day.  

Answer 2

Get a good stretch,

swim a stroke that is fast, but won't tire you out, I would recomend crawlstroke, the butterfly is fast, but it can kill you in a race if you don't have the energy and breathing techniques.

and if you have slot of prep time lift some weights, work on the deltoids, hamstrings, quadracepts, gaxtronemius, biceps and triceps, upper and lower abs, and obliques.

deltoids are very important.