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?
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haha yeah I sometimes feel like switching strokes in the middle of the pool out of boredom. The other day I caught myself thinking about data structures, I was so bored.
But I like the idea of counting strokes and working on DPS. Stroke drills will certainly be more effective.
haha yeah I sometimes feel like switching strokes in the middle of the pool out of boredom. The other day I caught myself thinking about data structures, I was so bored.
But I like the idea of counting strokes and working on DPS. Stroke drills will certainly be more effective.
