Help w/ stamina?

Question

my stamina is really horrible but my sprints are rly good. how cud i improve my stamina for swimming and running?

Answer 1

It is in my experience that long distance is really a mental "thing". I think you should try doing exercises to do with improving your stamina.

for swimming:

You could try swimming like a ladder, and increase your number of lengths everytime you finish taking a short break (2-3 min). When I was younger (10) my coach told me I was to swim the 1500m for the coming gala (competition). I was completely shocked as 1500m was really quite a distance (back then). I thought I couldn't survive it. In my previous trainings when we did it I almost fainted because it was so tiring, I didn't understand why my coach wanted me to do something I "couldn't do". And then he told me to push myself, he told me I could do it, it's just I kept thinking it was to long, if I just thought of counting every length and my strokes and increasing my speed every couple of lengths I would be way ahead of all the others. So at the gala I did just that, I didn't think of anything but the strokes, speed and lengths I had swum. And guess what? I finished it in 23 minutes flat! That was really good for a 10 yr old and I got gold! Now I always swim 1500m freestyle in cometitions, and it's not at all tiring. Really just focus your mind on three things: strokes, speed and lengths. Ignore the other things such as pain in your arm, wanting to give up, that's what actually makes you lose so focus on those three and I'm sure you'll get there. about how to improve, apart from the mental part, there's also the physical part, which brings us to increasing the number of lengths you swim everytime. Of course it would help if you 1st swim the maximum number of lengths you can swim and start improving on that. by about 4 lengths everytime. After you manage over 1500m you can start concentrating on speed. Just try dividing it up evenly and increase the speed. Just make sure your last 2/4 lengths are absolute sprints. It would also help if you swam long distance like 3km non-stop freestyle once you manage it.

I'm not a runner but I think it's about the same thing, really a mental thing as well.

All the best of luck to you!

Answer 2

lol for me it is the exact opposite.  well to get good stamina u have to run a  lot every day[for running], like if u have any track near where u live run a few times around it or do half of it then  the whole thing then 1 and a half then 2 and so on and so on.  so for swimming find a pool near u or something and do a few lengths every day. in the same way i instructed u to do running[in halfs].  also do this for like a few hours a week.  and don't take it fast.  do it with as much time as u need.  just build up stamina like that. if u follow all this u will have a pretty good stamina and you will be able to do whatever u want with your speed and stamina.