To those who swim on a team and are left in despair when the season is over, do you still swim on your own during the off-season? If yes, what kind of sets do you swim?
Or do you just do nothing for one and a half months? How does this affect one's swimming performance?
We take off from the beginning of Aug until school starts (Sept 11th or so). We don't swim during that time but instead do about an hour of dryland every day (jump rope, running, jumps, etc). For the first time in a few years, I have a meet mid-Aug so I'll be heading to my neighborhood pool to get in a small workout as often as I can.
I don't like this off-season thing either, I tried to swim on my own this week but I've found swimming alone to be terrible. I already knew that anyway. I have never understood how people here can workout alone, tight intervals and all.
This year I have already missed the whole month of February due to laser eye surgery. When I got back in the pool I struggled on the first day only, on the following days I was already performing as usual. Maybe I'm not impacted so badly by a prolonged off period?
My pool is closed this weekend for a swim meet. And I missed friday due to work which makes a terrible situation even worse.
3 days without swimming feels awful, I need my endorphin fix. I can't imagine an off-season. Don't stop swimming, stay in shape.
I'm in my mid-fifties, and re-started my masters swimming three years ago. The biggest mistake I made in those three years was taking two months off from swimming. It took me three to four months to get back where I was. Now if I'm feeling like I need to dial back my swimming for a short period I go to a set of "maintain" workouts. I agree with some of the others, there is no off-season in Masters.
I can relate. I had to take 3 weeks off due to a sprained ankle and it too me about 5 weeks to feel like I was back to the pre-ankle break times. Normally it doesn't take that long. Guess I'm getting old.
I'm in my mid-fifties, and re-started my masters swimming three years ago. The biggest mistake I made in those three years was taking two months off from swimming. It took me three to four months to get back where I was. Now if I'm feeling like I need to dial back my swimming for a short period I go to a set of "maintain" workouts. I agree with some of the others, there is no off-season in Masters.
