Swimming workout distance?

Question

I want to begin swimming to keep in shape since I wont have much time to go to the gym everyday now that school has started.

I have a pool at home about 15 meters in length so I wanted to use that to my advantage.

What would be a challenging distance in total that i could cover in my swim. I would like to swim in all 4 (breast,back,free and butterfly)

I would like to swim for around 30 mins. By swimming for 30 mins what would be a reasonable distance to cover?

Answer 1

For a good workout, in 30 minutes you should cover at LEAST 500m-800 or so (but it might be uncomfortable in your pool.)

I swim highest level squads for about 2 hours and we cover usualy 3.5-4km (thats around 1km per 30 minutes (I swim in a 50m pool)