How do I train for distance swimming?

Question

I have been swimming for about three months consistently and I have swam up to three miles non stop at the pool at the gym. I felt pretty good afterwards and I'm sure I could have done more. I want to swim from point judith, rhode island to block island. It's about 11.5 miles and I have one year to train. What kind of excercises shoudl I do, what kind of swimming, etc.

Answer 1

swim - there's nothing like being match fit

Answer 2

this year, my coach had taught us a way called pyramid. it really depend on the distance u want. for example on first day, you can start from  200 , 300 , 400 , 500 , 400 , 300 , 200 yards because you might not be use to it. and between each distance u  can take may 1 minutes ~ 3 minutes break. or maybe less like 30 seconds.  as the day go on you can add the distance, but slowly , so you can get use to it. nonstop until you finish the distance.  i think this will work pretty good for a long distance swimmer. [[:

Answer 3

DISTANCE TRAINING

dont forget to stretch

Answer 4

start off with nit much distance and then work your way up.

like start off with doin a few miles and every couple of weeks when that gets easier add a few more until you have reached your desired distance. when you have reached it try doin a little bit more so when you come to do the swim it seems easier becasue you are used to swimming a longer distance =]

hope that helped and good luck =]

Answer 5

Take some more nutritious food and supplement..

You shouldn't swim 11.5 directly..

Tomorrow do it 3.5 Miles , the next day 4 Miles..

:)

Answer 6

long distance swimming, not short distance swimming because that will make you faster at the begining but do nothing for yooou in the long run... you should swim about 3 or 4 days a week max... on your off days you may want to do core muscle exersises, because this will help in all exersises (including swiming), such as crunched leg lifts, air squats, squat thrust/burpies. However when doing the core muscle work out don't kill yourself, more so do them just to stay active , save yourself for your swimming.

p.s. for your swimming start out small (3 miles sounds like a good starting point for you) and add a little distance each week, how much to add is up to you but by the end you should be swimming over 11.5 miles (such as 13 miles)

Answer 7

arm and leg mostly

floting for hours on end

musle an blood cerculation control

and most emportant ENDURANCE