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.
How bad do you want to be good?
What are your goals?
It won't hurt you to train each day. You can handle it.
5 or 6 times a week is pretty good.
It's all a matter of what do you want to accomplish?
How much time per week do you want to dedicate?
It's better to have a coach and train with a team.
Attempt to do more meterage per practice, hold faster paces.
Test yourself. Swim the following distances for time:
like 25, 50, 75, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1k, 1500, 2k, 2.5k, 3k, 4k & 5k
do some test sets like:
5 or 10 x 50 or 100 fast
attempt to hold the same time
take the same # of seconds rest between each swim (like 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 45, & 1:00 rest between each)
then goal is to occasionally restest and see if you can go faster
if you train consistently you will improve
How bad do you want to be good?
What are your goals?
It won't hurt you to train each day. You can handle it.
5 or 6 times a week is pretty good.
It's all a matter of what do you want to accomplish?
How much time per week do you want to dedicate?
It's better to have a coach and train with a team.
Attempt to do more meterage per practice, hold faster paces.
Test yourself. Swim the following distances for time:
like 25, 50, 75, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1k, 1500, 2k, 2.5k, 3k, 4k & 5k
do some test sets like:
5 or 10 x 50 or 100 fast
attempt to hold the same time
take the same # of seconds rest between each swim (like 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 45, & 1:00 rest between each)
then goal is to occasionally restest and see if you can go faster
if you train consistently you will improve
