My question is should I start training every day or stick to every other day allowing my body time to recover between swims ?
After 2 months of swimming 3 times a week I am now up to 2500m over 70 mins sessions. I am not as young as I was and I am not sure which is best for my body.
I am now living next door to a 50m pool, H20 in Kelowna, BC, Canada. This is a great facility.
After 10 years living in Wales, UK where my local pool was unwilling to put lanes in for workouts. I am now finally getting the chance to train and get back my swim fitness.
Some good suggestions here; at age 40-41 I was a 2- or 3-day/week swimmer, but decided to start slowly increasing the work load last spring. For a long time I thought my arms would fall off if I swam every day, until I realized the old hard-easy rule from my running days. Try this...
If you're doing 2500 3 days/week now, why not mix in some easy swimming on your "off" days... say 1200 yards twice a week? Now all of a sudden you're swimming 5 days a week: 3 hard/normal days broken up by 2 easy days. Especially if, as you say, it's convenient and hard to stay away.
I did this and as I slowly increased my yardage I went from 2000-3000 for my hard days to 3500-5500, while my "easy" days went from 1000-1750 to 2000-2500. The trick is not to overdo it on those easy days.
Some good suggestions here; at age 40-41 I was a 2- or 3-day/week swimmer, but decided to start slowly increasing the work load last spring. For a long time I thought my arms would fall off if I swam every day, until I realized the old hard-easy rule from my running days. Try this...
If you're doing 2500 3 days/week now, why not mix in some easy swimming on your "off" days... say 1200 yards twice a week? Now all of a sudden you're swimming 5 days a week: 3 hard/normal days broken up by 2 easy days. Especially if, as you say, it's convenient and hard to stay away.
I did this and as I slowly increased my yardage I went from 2000-3000 for my hard days to 3500-5500, while my "easy" days went from 1000-1750 to 2000-2500. The trick is not to overdo it on those easy days.
