I found myself wondering the other day if anyone has ever tried "non-stop meet-simulated-style training"?
The idea would be to take your typical taper meet, say, a 3-4 day thing where you swim a couple events all out each day plus relays and warm up and cool down.
You do this, say, from Thursday to Sunday, then drive home.
On Monday, you repeat the exact same 3-4 day sequence, with the exact same excruciating effort interspersed with warm up and cool down.
This would bring you to Thursday or Friday (depending on whether you are on the 3-day or 4-day taper meet schedule.)
You begin the meet over again, no rest.
And so on throughout the entire next four months.
Isn't this sort of what the High School & College schedules are like? Granted they don't have a multi-day meet every week, but they certainly do MANY of the weeks. My sons HS schedule his last year included at LEAST one meet a week, and at least one of those was multi-day. Fortunately he graduated.
I found myself wondering the other day if anyone has ever tried "non-stop meet-simulated-style training"?
The idea would be to take your typical taper meet, say, a 3-4 day thing where you swim a couple events all out each day plus relays and warm up and cool down.
You do this, say, from Thursday to Sunday, then drive home.
On Monday, you repeat the exact same 3-4 day sequence, with the exact same excruciating effort interspersed with warm up and cool down.
This would bring you to Thursday or Friday (depending on whether you are on the 3-day or 4-day taper meet schedule.)
You begin the meet over again, no rest.
And so on throughout the entire next four months.
Isn't this sort of what the High School & College schedules are like? Granted they don't have a multi-day meet every week, but they certainly do MANY of the weeks. My sons HS schedule his last year included at LEAST one meet a week, and at least one of those was multi-day. Fortunately he graduated.
