Tip of the Week: Counting Repeats

October 13 , 2008

Counting Repeats
How many times have you lost count of repeats you have done or how far you have swum? Here’s some ways to make counting easier. First of all, set your intervals to plus or minus 5 seconds from a minute. Instead of a 2 minute sendoff, use a 1:55 or 2:05. Thus, your second repeat starts on the 5, your third starts on the 10 and so on. You can then easily determine how many repeats you have done by the starting position on the clock! If you are doing long continuous swims, try breaking it up and do something different every 3rd or 4th 50 yards. If you don’t want to mix it up, you can deliberately swim to one side of the lane for 50 yards, then to the other side on the next 50 yards. This way, counting is easier because you are counting in increments of 100 or 200 yards instead of just a 50.

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