here are 40 swimming workouts for sprinters, distance swimmers, butterfliers, im’ers, and everyone in between courtesy of some of the top programs, swimmers and coaches in the world. below are a collection of workouts and swim sets for sprinters, for distance swimmers, for those looking to improve their kick, and everyone else in between. if you are looking for more beginner type practices you came to the wrong place. some of the swim practices i have guinea-pigged on myself, others …

for example, to qualify for the 2016 summer olympics, they have to be able to swim the length of a pool in about 23 to 26 seconds. hardy says a typical training schedule is working out in the pool twice a day, six days a week. there are “not enough hours in the day for how much we train,” she says, because they need to have enough time to first do a pool workout, recover from it, and then swim …