What’s a good swimming pace? It all depends on what you want to get out of your swim. Is it for fitness? To build endurance? To train for an upcoming race or triathlon? The answer is different depending on the purpose of your swim, and therefore should be based on desired outcome. Let’s take a look at some general guidelines that will help you find the right pace for you!
Endurance swimming
If you want to swim for endurance, then a good pace is about the same speed as your normal walking. This could also include an interval training style where there are short bursts throughout one’s routine rather than just long continuous bouts like when doing endurance – based exercises such – typically 30 minutes total per day will suffice! If someone wanted more intense exercise they might do 45 minute sessions instead which may consist primarily high impact cardio routines combined together through strength building moves too if desired
Sprint swimming
A good swimming pace for sprinting is 5 seconds faster than your normal walking speed. This would be considered a sprint workout with specific intervals of work followed by periods at lower intensity levels in between each set, but without any breaks or rests during these sets (i.e., you swim continuously).
Swim by your level
For a beginner, a good swimming pace is a pace that allow you to breath normally after a swim. Remember, if you’re a beginner, your main goals is to improve your endurance & swimming technique, not swimimng time. For an intermediate swimmer, a good swimming pace is one that you can sustain for the entire length of your pool or two.
For advanced swimmers who are training to compete in races or events like triathlons and open water competitions (i e., they have specific goals), their best time might be too fast so it would not qualify as “good” because there’s no way someone could maintain this speed throughout any race without tiring out quickly! However if we’re talking about just getting exercise then faster speeds may work well depending on how long each set lasts before taking rest periods at lower intensity levels again between sets instead with breaks during these intervals where needed.
It’s important to know your own personal best so that you know what to work towards in order to improve your time.
If you’re not sure what your best time is, then try to find a pool with timing equipment and test yourself. If the facility doesn’t have any timers or clocks that can measure this for some reason (ie., they don’t know how), ask someone who works there if it’s possible, so long as their answer isn’t “no” of course! It might be worth asking them about other ways too since sometimes people are surprised by just where these things turn up in unexpected places, like on top-of-the line fitness centers which often will offer more than one type of workout area including pools equipped with all sorts of features. The main thing here though would still remain: knowing whether we’re talking about a lap or two, how many lengths of the pool we’re swimming in total and then what our best time is.
If you don’t have access to any timing equipment at all (i e., no one who can help), there are still ways that swimmers themselves might be able to measure their own pace without having an outside source do it for them: by counting strokes per length: using some kind ot timer device like an app on your phone (almost every smartphones will have) which will count down from ten minutes after pressing start; measuring out 100 yards with something long enough so they know when 50 yards has been reached – this would also work if someone had only 25-yard pools available too.
Most people can sustain an average pace between 50-60 strokes per minute (SPM) with good form which should feel like you’re swimming at your own comfortable speed without feeling too tired or exhausted after finishing one length.
A good swimming pace is a sustainable one. If you’re feeling like your breathing heavily, or if it feels too difficult to keep up the same speed for more than two lengths of pool without resting in between them – then that’s not an appropriate swimmer-friendly rate and should be adjusted accordingly based on how hard they feel their body can handle at this time.
Last thought
The only way to know what is a good swimming pace for you, though – and the best one that will help your fitness level improve over time as well – is by doing some kind of timed swim. So if there’s any chance at all someone can be available with timing equipment or even just counting strokes per length while they’re in lane nextt o them during their workout session (or on deck), it would really behoove swimmers themselves not ot pass up those opportunities! It’ll give an accurate idea about how fast we are going which helps us set goals too so our workouts have more meaning than before when everything was “just” arbitrary distances without knowing where exactly each stroke falls within this range.”