For the past few months, SwimSwam has been posting a daily swimming workout to help inspire swim coaches around the world who are looking for new ideas to try with their swimmers. Since most of the world’s pools are currently closed for business, we wanted to give swimmers and coaches an alternative set of dryland workouts to use to stay fit during the quarantine. These workouts will be designed to be done around the house. Some will use basic equipment, like medicine balls or stretch cords, while others will be all body-weight exercises.
These workouts are provided for informational purposes only.
See more at-home training ideas on our At Home Swim Training page here
Recovery Day
If you’ve been following along with our daily dryland workouts, this has been a really tough week. Probably the toughest week yet in the series, adding weight and complexity to movements to increase the difficulty level.
If that’s the case for you, today should be a recovery day. Recovery can be even more important for dryland exercises than in-water exercises because of the higher impact on your joints on dry land.
- Start with a 5 minute crawl – it still gets your heart rate up, but is much easier on your joints.
- Next we’ll do a long active recovery workout. This will be similar to a long warmup, but it will just extend to the full workout. The goal is to give your joints a little bit of a break from the pounding.
Still have energy left to burn? Go for a walk (or a jog if you’re a good runner).
