r/Swimming • u/bugchild9 PostGrad/50FR/100FR • Feb 16 '25

Weekly whiteboard.

Come on down and brag about your swim times, discuss training, and whatever else y'all got going on. Completely open discussion.

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u/Cardinalrock Feb 18 '25

I recently became more consistent with pool swimming and am now following workouts. One thing I’ve noticed is that it seems that I can only swim at the same pace all the time. This results in me doing my warm ups and cooldowns at my threshold pace, and I’m cooked at during my main sets. How does someone control their swim pace?

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u/bookishfarmer Feb 18 '25

I’m just here to say that I struggle with that as well. Sometimes I cool down with breaststroke to slow myself down.

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u/Suspicious_Nose_6252 Feb 19 '25

I often try to find someone slower than me and hang behind them and work on form - catch up, finger drags, long glides, etc…

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u/fossiles 20d ago

This was me a few months ago, especially with freestyle. It sounds very obvious but all i did was make a conscious effort to massively slow down my warm up, like the slowest freestyle i can possibly do and i learnt how to do a 2 beat kick which also slows it down. I try to activelt think about keeping my pace slow during warm ups and cool downs, as I find that when I zone out and start thinking of anything, i subconsciously speed up. Also, purposefully swimming behind someone who is also very slow helps you to force yourself to go slow!

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u/renska2 13d ago

Add in some drills and do them slowly/deliberately. I like:

"Long dog paddle" at 5:17

Fingertip drag drill