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I enjoyed swimming when I was younger and logistics this summer will allow me to do that easily. So a cardio swimming routine would have me swimming lightly for a couple of minutes, swimming intensively in intervals and then swimming lightly for a couple of minutes to cooldown.
What swimming style or is it irrelevant? Keep the same swimming style or switch for the different phases?
Swimming has exponential gains from learning proper technique. I assumed I was a good swimmer because I took lessons as a child and had lots of badges, but as an adult I was humiliated. Even if you think you know what you are doing that is different from an effective workout stroke afaikt.
I'll take this as motivation to take a couple of lessons as an adult.
You won't really be able to do intense bursts well with breaststroke for example. Freestyle is your best bet. You could do butterfly but who wants to learn that miserable stroke? :)