Like many others, I've made the transition to outdoor LCM swimming for the summer. I love it in many ways. But I have noticed that the "garbage yards" problem creeps in when I swim long course. I work on my stroke, which is good, but my tempo and overall intensity drop. I swim with fitness lap swimmers for the most part, or alone. The other day I swam some 100s alternating between easy and hard, and made some progress on the hard ones. But I notice that I anticipate my pool time less because it feels like I'm mailing it in.
Does anybody else have this problem? If so, do you have suggestions for how to introduce more variation and intensity into long course swimming?
I think debugger means if you train regularly in LCM, when you go back to training SCM or SCY it seems easier. Presumably due to the walls being at every 25.
Exactly what I meant, it's definitely easier swim a meet in SCM or SCY after training in LCM than opposite. IMO if there's no other choice and you have to swim in short course it worth to swim interval sets of non-standard lengths. Let's say you plan to swim at the meet LCM 100m any stroke and train in SCY. Then it worth to swim sets of 150 yards like 10x150 instead of 10x100 - that should compensate the difference in preparation.
PS Sorry for my English - it isn't my mother tongue.
I think debugger means if you train regularly in LCM, when you go back to training SCM or SCY it seems easier. Presumably due to the walls being at every 25.
Exactly what I meant, it's definitely easier swim a meet in SCM or SCY after training in LCM than opposite. IMO if there's no other choice and you have to swim in short course it worth to swim interval sets of non-standard lengths. Let's say you plan to swim at the meet LCM 100m any stroke and train in SCY. Then it worth to swim sets of 150 yards like 10x150 instead of 10x100 - that should compensate the difference in preparation.
PS Sorry for my English - it isn't my mother tongue.
