Has anyone ever tried the CrossFit Endurance program? (www.crossfitendurance.com)
I've been doing CrossFit for about a year and just got back into swimming recently. I'm considering giving up my long swim practices for CFE and doing the single sport swim program from their site.
I'd love to hear what anyone thinks about the program, especially if you've ever tried it.
Thanks! :)
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Yeah, the bucket drill I'm not really in to. I did that enough in HS to know I have no desire to do it now.
It's mostly the training/programming/scheduling/workouts aspect of the program that I was hoping someone else had any experience with.
As far as my goals go - It was my goal to get back in the pool, train as hard as I possibly could and just see what my times would be. Not as in 'wait and see what happens' but to see what my full potential would be if I made a full commitment (training, diet, sleep, mobility, all of it) for 3 months until the state meet. It turns out I qualified for nationals so that time frame turned into 4 months. But apparently my form isn't great and my 29 year old body isn't nearly as forgiving as my 18 year old one was. I've been out for a few weeks already with rib issues so my original plan is already pretty much out the window.
I'm now considering staying in the water until summer nationals which would give me an extra 2 months. But I still don't know when I can get back in and what kind of success I would have on the CFE program in that time frame.
It's a LOT more dryland work (CrossFit stuff) with some high-intensity lower-volume swimming. Which I'm not happy about at all. I'd rather be in the pool as much as I can. But that traditional style training isn't doing good things for me.
The workout listed on the blogs is just the main set for each day. I would still do a ton of skill work and work on my form during warm-up/swim down and I'm sure a few other little sets I won't be able to help myself from throwing in.
PS - I got an e-mail notification of a response from JazzHands that seems to have disappeared now. I hope you didn't think I would be offended or anything. I actually laughed heartily and agreed with you!!
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Yeah, the bucket drill I'm not really in to. I did that enough in HS to know I have no desire to do it now.
It's mostly the training/programming/scheduling/workouts aspect of the program that I was hoping someone else had any experience with.
As far as my goals go - It was my goal to get back in the pool, train as hard as I possibly could and just see what my times would be. Not as in 'wait and see what happens' but to see what my full potential would be if I made a full commitment (training, diet, sleep, mobility, all of it) for 3 months until the state meet. It turns out I qualified for nationals so that time frame turned into 4 months. But apparently my form isn't great and my 29 year old body isn't nearly as forgiving as my 18 year old one was. I've been out for a few weeks already with rib issues so my original plan is already pretty much out the window.
I'm now considering staying in the water until summer nationals which would give me an extra 2 months. But I still don't know when I can get back in and what kind of success I would have on the CFE program in that time frame.
It's a LOT more dryland work (CrossFit stuff) with some high-intensity lower-volume swimming. Which I'm not happy about at all. I'd rather be in the pool as much as I can. But that traditional style training isn't doing good things for me.
The workout listed on the blogs is just the main set for each day. I would still do a ton of skill work and work on my form during warm-up/swim down and I'm sure a few other little sets I won't be able to help myself from throwing in.
PS - I got an e-mail notification of a response from JazzHands that seems to have disappeared now. I hope you didn't think I would be offended or anything. I actually laughed heartily and agreed with you!!
