Hello, I’m thinking about going to the local pool to work out. What’s a good number of laps or number of meters/yards to swim for a nice workout? Something equivalent to around 20 / 30 min on the treadmill. Thanks!
As a competitive and high school swimmer, I usually do around 5000 yards once a day in about an hour 45 minutes (4500 if I’m sprinting to improve speed)..If you’re only looking to do it for 20 minutes, my race pace is about 1200 yards every 15 minutes (and im assuming you aren’t in shape like i am) so in 20-30 mins you’d probably have done about 1500, depending if you’ve ever swam before.
It’s really hard to give you an exact answer because a couple questions pop into my head:
-Have you swam (in a lap pool) before?
-What kind of shape are you in?
That all being said, i recommend timing yourself for about 10 minutes..keeping a pace you could hold "forever" and multiplying it by 3.