I have another question for all of you wise swimmers. I see the saying"to swim fast in a meet you need to swim fast in practice" or something like that. So, do I need to be swimming at race pace for each set that I do? Should I just make sure that I am swimming at say 80 or 90%? I'm not sure. I would have thought it would depend on the workout but what do I know? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks and hope you are having a good weekend!
You don't need to do race pace every set or even every workout,but I think it should be the central theme to the majority of workouts in the main part of your training cycle.Unless you are a sprinter,race pace doesn't mean AFAP,it means the speed you want to swim the race.Good sets to do this are either broken swims or 1/2 the distance swims (a set of 50s at 100 pace etc.)
You don't need to do race pace every set or even every workout,but I think it should be the central theme to the majority of workouts in the main part of your training cycle.Unless you are a sprinter,race pace doesn't mean AFAP,it means the speed you want to swim the race.Good sets to do this are either broken swims or 1/2 the distance swims (a set of 50s at 100 pace etc.)
