I'm curious what my fellow slow twitchers do to train for the longest pool events. Of particular interest is input from those of you who also swam as a youth. With way less yardage that you used to do, what can be done to be able to survive a decent mile?
In my case, workouts are limited to an hour and there are usually 3+ per lane, so sets can't be dedicated just to my interests. However, the coaches are quite willing to do what they can for me.
I had a really unpleasant weekend where I raced a 1500 on Friday. I faded a bit and the struggle trying to maintain pace really drained me. In fact, I was really stiff and sore the next day (mainly my lats). I had to kill myself in the 800 on Sat. just to match my 800 split from the previous day. I was still stiff on Sunday.
Monday night, I finally felt recovered from that 1500. Coach had us do a 500 right after warmup. Since I was feeling pretty good, I pushed it, hard. My time in that practice 500 converts to a 400 SCM 5 seconds faster than what I did in the meet on Sunday. I don't know if that's encouraging or depressing. :lmao:
... I was really stiff and sore the next day (mainly my lats) ...
Maybe try a longer swimdown? In my limited experience, I need a good, thorough swimdown after a hard 1500/1650, else I'm sore for days.
... 1500/1650 ... when I do race them, they wipe me for the rest of the meet. I had almost the same experience as you this summer at Nationals when I raced the 800 on Thursday of the meet and then was wasted the rest of the weekend.
I don't do distance day at nats for exactly that reason. I like swimming longer freestyle events when they're last on the program. When they're first, they kinda ruin the rest of the meet.
... I was really stiff and sore the next day (mainly my lats) ...
Maybe try a longer swimdown? In my limited experience, I need a good, thorough swimdown after a hard 1500/1650, else I'm sore for days.
... 1500/1650 ... when I do race them, they wipe me for the rest of the meet. I had almost the same experience as you this summer at Nationals when I raced the 800 on Thursday of the meet and then was wasted the rest of the weekend.
I don't do distance day at nats for exactly that reason. I like swimming longer freestyle events when they're last on the program. When they're first, they kinda ruin the rest of the meet.
