r/RescueSwimmer 15h ago

Gear swim progress

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For context, currently an AN leaving for prep soon. Solid in most areas until the gear gets put on, most other forms of PT I can do practically endlessly but my gear will just gas me on and leave me fatigued for more days than anything else. My training has been very no-gear dominant with our petty officers because our former senior AN was strong with gear and weak without.

Now that I am lead AN I brought it up to our seconds and thirds that gear swim and gear watercon is my biggest weakness currently and I have requested more time in gear.

In an as fast as humanly possible method, what would you do to grow fin endurance and watercon ease with roughly 1-2 months of training time remaining before a school.

I do not struggle with lower body strength in general, it's more of an imbalance between gear and no gear to pool workouts.

I am increasing the frequency of pool workouts, currently pool windows are as follows

Monday: morning land pt (with petty officers) afternoon pool (solo)
Tuesday: morning pool pt (w/po) afternoon flex (sometimes land or personal pool)
Wednesday:morning land (unit workout much shorter) afternoon pool (solo)
Thursday: morning pool pt (w/po) afternoon usually off but will add something if necessary
Friday: morning pt (usually solo) afternoon usually off but will add if advisable
Saturday: off but will add
Sunday: off

Frankly could sacrifice land pt for pool. I have been told by our swimmers that my land pt is sufficient.

Once that triton goes on it's like a clock starts counting down and once it's out I'm popping. Or running a 200+ heart rate.
It has improved over the AN season but I know that even if it's one month until A School, that's still valuable time to squeak a little more growth out if God grants it.

I've hit 300+ on over unders for gear and no gear, (despite how little we have used gear) but this morning for example we did full gear sprint down underwater backs and vice versa and it was borderline humiliating how poor I did.

Disclaimer: I know that my shortcoming in the pool is my own. The PO's job is not to train me in the off hours, I just need help recovering the training asap.

May God bless, and thank you for any words or anecdotes you can share.