I want to say thank you to the USMS forum for allowing me to read all of the nice information about swimming. It has taught me a great deal more swimming then I had anticipated.
I have a few questions that I have read from past threads that deal with recovery after successive workouts over a extended period of time.
Over the past three and half months I have accumulated many yards and only missed 6 days during that time frame. My recovery days are normally Thursday and Sunday where I do low key swimming and no hard stuff. I sprint 50's, 100's, and 200's once a week to try and improve my endurance speed level.
My question is that should I take a recovery week or two to work on stroke technique and just swim easy during this time. I know that when I was younger I had about 1-2 months off from age group swimming per year normally after the Fall/Winter and Summer seasons. Should I be worried about burnout if I continue swimming 7 days a week? Or should I separate my training into periods during the year? I swim alone like some people on this forum and read about one person who had swam for almost a year 6 times a week and was almost burned out.
Thank You for your time and expertise in this area.
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I don't understand how they can keep going with out some form of extended break.
If you need to understand the answer to this, you are going to have to start contacting those people and asking them.
There are masters swimmers training for marathon distances, channel swims or personal distance records. There are also masters swimmers who train with a USAS team and then there are those USMS teams who train like you would expect a USAS team to train. I have no idea if they are going to burn out, but they all put in a lot of yards.
I don't understand how they can keep going with out some form of extended break.
If you need to understand the answer to this, you are going to have to start contacting those people and asking them.
There are masters swimmers training for marathon distances, channel swims or personal distance records. There are also masters swimmers who train with a USAS team and then there are those USMS teams who train like you would expect a USAS team to train. I have no idea if they are going to burn out, but they all put in a lot of yards.
