How To Improve Your Swimming Endurance

Everyone wants to be able to swim longer and faster without stopping. We're here with our 9 top tips to take your stamina and swimming technique to the next level!

0:00 Welcome
0:10 Swimming breathing technique
1:38 How to improve your swimming technique
2:51 Be patient with becoming a better swimmer
3:20 Kit to help you improve your swimming
4:11 Varying your intensity
5:12 Shorter swim intervals
6:22 Finding consistency with your swimming
7:21 Trying new swimming
8:21 Become a stronger swimmer

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🏊 Share your swimming endurance tips below 👇

[jaromino]

Long distance...breathing is the key. It should be relaxed as if doing a brisk walk. Also, the mental side of things is important. If you are relaxed you can go further

[notmyrealname]

!. For me the breathing -exhaling enough, swim to a natural feeling breathing pattern not breathing to your swimming if that makes sense, 2. Stick to short bursts but reduce rests in between. Both these points made by GTN but just saying which work for me. Think 90% about body position and timing rather than power and before you know it it'll feel easy. Honest!

[iggalan]

For me I start to see improvements when I swim 4 or more times a week. Which unfortunately can only do in summer when I can also do a short run or bike in the same day.

[marie-louisekarlander]

Swim often 4-5 times per week if it’s possible. I used to say, if you want to be a better swimmer as triathlete, you have to work with it from November to April. Swim often and good workouts and hopefully with coach at least once per week.
I watch this video before I went to master swimming yesterday. And we swim butterfly focus yesterday 🤪. Reword aching today in the arms, shoulders and core . And I actually can’t swim butterfly more than 25 m .

[viatori]

I would love some advice on this.
I totally understand almost all of the tips in this video. Swimming slower was the key for me to start getting in longer workouts.
What bothers me is that while I'm doing 1800 to 2100 yards a session now, I'm only doing 150 to 200 before a break.
The tip in the video was to not add on longer continuous swims. Why? Is that just in the beginning? We have long, easy rides and runs. Is that not a thing in swimming, or am I missing something?

[robohippy]

The thing about breathing is that if you go into oxygen debt from not breathing often enough, you can NEVER catch back up again. I tried for years to swim freestyle by breathing every 3 arm strokes. I would be gasping at about 100 yards. Breathing every other arm stroke is just natural for me.

[na-dkvm]

Im training for my first triathlon in june. Olympic triathlon. I can do the 1500m swim in 49 mins, the cutoff is 55 mins.

The only probelm i have is im so tired when im swimmimg. I take so many breaks. Im still getting in under the cutoff time but do i just keep doing 1500m sessions, or do i add easier swim sessions ?? Currently doing 2 sessions a week

[TheSkite]

I swam in high school and have a nice stroke, I just retired and started swimming again this September I've worked up to a mile my question is what is a sufficient distance for fitness per work out? I'm still need to speed things up a bit but that will come with time.
Thanks

[leanneeastick]

#gtncoachescorner I tend to swim twice a week and cover 1250m in 30mins, just regular swimming, but probably have to take short rests every 250m or so. I want to build in more variation into my training but I have little or no power when I swim, feeling like I can’t really swim fast if I try, or at least not that I can sustain for much longer than 50-75m. Do I just need to work on my arm/shoulder strength? Or will this come with time and increased training? (I’m training for sprint distance)

[Rohitbedi]

I am struggling to go longer with side breathing can't go ahead of 10 m without break.

[ItsWami]

I need to get those glasses they look sick

[SBoots]

I thought that just trying to pound out a 45 minute session straight would give me endurance gains. I was always going for the distance on my Strava. You know, to look good. Well, that did not work. I now do small sessions and have added the dreaded pool drills. When I do just go and pound back and forth leisurely on the pool end walls my times are amazingly getting better. Can't wait to get to open water though and see if it truly is a better time.

[Alltagsabenteuer]

I would love to swim at an easier pace, same as I can run in an easier pace if I want to train to run longer, but if I do that my legs are dropping – is it only in my head that I assume a certain speed is required to stay on the surface with good body posture?

[tradestone]

Focus on efficiency! Waste less energy per distance or time. My suggestion is the 'total immersion' technique, but you are free to choose.

[elizabethsabit]

I can swim 400meters free style but the problem is its very slow, 2mins and 16sec.. and i guess because of.my sinking legs, but how do i fix this? I wear wet suit it help me a lot so i can swim relax, but the problem is my sinking legs ..

[timmcgrath]

Swim breathing is backwards. Every other exercise is in through the nose and out through the mouth. I find that practicing even out of the water helps.

[rantsfromthesofa]

A suggestion just get to the point. Eliminate all the non-meaningful blather.