I am 54 years old, and have recently gotten back into competitive swimming. I have not yet worked up to monster workouts (like folks doing 4000 yards) and not sure I would even want to. My shoulders can't take swimming every day.
I have a meet on Saturday. I am only swimming two 50s (*** and free).
My training for the last week or so was as follows:
Thursday, 3/4 mile swim
Friday, rest
Saturday, worked with trainer (dry training/weights, etc.)
Sunday-Monday-Tuesday (1200 yds, 1200 yds, 880 yards)
Wednesday-rest
Thursday (today)-1000 yards
Should I work out at all on Friday. If so...how hard?
What is the best prep for the day of the meet (in terms of rest, supplements, eating, etc.). The meet is not until 4 pm.
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.
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I still love to have pancakes for breakfast before a meet. I'll make them if I've got time. If it's a meet I've got to get up early and drive to I'll usually just have a bowl of cereal, but it just isn't the same!
The pancakes thing was something my rec league coach always told us to do before our Saturday meets, and if Mr. Mac said to do it, my five-year-old self demanded it. It was even better for Tuesday night meets where he said we should go to the movies in the afternoon to enjoy the air conditioning. I wasn't always as successful at getting to do this.
I'm thinking that since my next meet won't require being up super early I will bring back the pancakes tradition.
Another swim tradition this post reminded me of, again started when I was five - we always listened to the Beach Boys in the car on the way to the meet. This continued until I went away to college, even when I started driving myself, but when my dad came to visit me in college he actually brought a Beach Boys tape with him. (My dad and I are the tradition/superstition/neurotic habits people in the family. :))
I still love to have pancakes for breakfast before a meet. I'll make them if I've got time. If it's a meet I've got to get up early and drive to I'll usually just have a bowl of cereal, but it just isn't the same!
The pancakes thing was something my rec league coach always told us to do before our Saturday meets, and if Mr. Mac said to do it, my five-year-old self demanded it. It was even better for Tuesday night meets where he said we should go to the movies in the afternoon to enjoy the air conditioning. I wasn't always as successful at getting to do this.
I'm thinking that since my next meet won't require being up super early I will bring back the pancakes tradition.
Another swim tradition this post reminded me of, again started when I was five - we always listened to the Beach Boys in the car on the way to the meet. This continued until I went away to college, even when I started driving myself, but when my dad came to visit me in college he actually brought a Beach Boys tape with him. (My dad and I are the tradition/superstition/neurotic habits people in the family. :))
