Swiming, hit the plateau

I think that you reach a point in all 3 sports where just putting in the time isn't enough. That point comes much quicker to some then others. I'm experiencing the same thing with my swimming. I made huge leaps and bound early on and now I'm not seeing that much. You just can't sustain that initial improvement in fitness that long. I wish it worked that way though. I'd be running 3min/mi but the end of the summer if I kept up the rate of improvement I saw when I start in Jan .

Also I think when you start to workout, you are coming from very little fitness, so even if you take some time off it's hard to loose any fitness really, because you had none to start. Then as you have been training for a while you are so used to coninually improving that when you take time off and have fitness to lose and you lose it, it's a bit of a shock. I just took 2 weeks off of swimming after training for swimming 3 days a week and for the first time I felt noticably slower then in previous workouts. Have you taken any time off lately or not kept up with training at the same rate?

Sorry that was a little long winded. Just keep with it and be consistant with your training and I'm sure you'll get back there and even exceed your previous PR.

Oh one more thing I just thought of. If you've been consistant with your training I've read that mixing things up so you aren't doing the same type of workout week in week out can help shock the muscles and get things going again.