Swimming Workouts For Beginners

Beginners who are interested in practicing swimming workouts should not only practice swimming exercises that improve the form, but also speed and endurance. Listed below are a few workouts for beginners and these workouts will help you achieve various goals such as better form while swimming and improved health. 

Right Arm and Left Arm Exercises
To practice these exercise first the swimmer should only use his right arm. The swimmer should preferably use a pull buoy in front of him, extend the left arm and stroke with the other arm. The same exercise should be done extending the right arm. Right and left arm exercises are important to improve endurance and form. After completing these 2 exercises, the swimmer should practice the catch up exercise in which he should complete the stroke using one arm before catching up with the other arm. A pull buoy should also be used for this exercise.

Kicking Exercises
Kicking exercises consist of using by using a flutter board and using fins. However, while practicing kicking exercises one can choose not to use the fins if he is not comfortable with them. While using the flutter board the swimmer should extend his arms over his head and   roll on to the side every time he wants to breathe. Kicking exercises are very important to improve both endurance and speed.

All the exercises mentioned above should be completed in 3-5 sets of 25 counts. Before starting the set, the swimmer should do warm up exercises and after completing the set he should do cool down exercises. Warn up and cool down exercises can prevent problems such as sprains, aches, pains, cramps and other muscle related issues. Both warm up and cool down exercises should be done in 2 sets of 25 counts each.

Remember, the swimming workouts mentioned above are meant for beginners who want to practice 400-1200 meter exercises. Intermediate workouts are meant for swimmers who are ready to tackle the 2000+ meter exercises. The exercises mentioned above can be done by anyone who wants to increase endurance and speed. While performing the exercises mentioned above, it should be noted that it is always better to pay more emphasis to form and endurance exercises. Speed exercises can be practiced regularly once the other two types of exercises have been mastered, till then speed exercises can be practiced once in a week or two weeks if you are swimming thrice a week.