Swimming as a gym project. Newbie

[karky]

Ok, im a newbie to swimming. Though, i know how to swim, i can stay decently floating atleast. I used to swim quite alot, my dad taught me early when i was a child, though ive never had any proffessional help.

Now in our gym class at school, theres a project where we are gonne choose a sport, learn some about it and train it for a given period of time. write a program, evaluate, all of that stuff

So, i thought about choosing swimming, ive always been fond of swimming and i know its a heck of a good workout.

Does anyone have any link to articles about this? How do one build a swimming program to meet the specific goals you have? Stuff like that. Id love to learn.

And, how does swimming fit with weight training?

Any answers much appritiated

[Jimbo]

Karky - I don't have the specific answers to your questions. But you read a LOT of references to "TI" (total immersion") in here. Apparently it is a way of swim training that is quite different than the standard approach. Along with your research into training for swimmers I thought you might take a read.

http://www.totalimmersion.net/free-books.html

There are 2 books referenced at this site that tout the benefits of TI training. It sounds interesting to me. Q mentioned that he has done some of this training and it apparently is working out for him. If his SPL (strokes per lap) are any indication...something sure is working. I struggle to keep my SPL under 25. He can do a lap in 11-14 strokes. Has me interested in the training.

[Q.]

Originally Posted by Jimbo

Q mentioned that he has done some of this training and it apparently is working out for him. If his SPL (strokes per lap) are any indication...something sure is working. I struggle to keep my SPL under 25. He can do a lap in 11-14 strokes.

Just for clarification, that's a length in that number of strokes, not a lap! Geez, that would be a feat!

[karky]

Just got back from the pool. Gosh, its been along time since last i had a swim, im dead after like 50 meters of crawl, pretty high intensity though :p it seems i suck at taking it easy and going slow.
Though, it was a good workout!