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.
OMG, where's the :barf: emo? Meet breakfast is soft stuff like eggs, yogurt, and fruit. Also coffee. No grease! Jeepers! Hammer Gel & HEED during the day!
I don't eat it right before a meet. Most of my meets have a 3 hour+ travel time to get there, so I usually get it on the way out of town, and have plenty of time to get it down okay before even thinking about racing. It is good though for the protein, fat, calories, etc. All stuff you need for a meet performance. I'm sure you've all been halfway through a meet and wished you'd ate a few more calories to keep you going.
And post meet celebration meals are a whole different story. :D A friend of mine once told me that after exerting as much energy as we do on a competition day, we deserve to eat whatever the :censor: we want too! We earned it, and burned off enough calories that need replacing anyway.
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During meet weekends I sometimes eat excessive saturated fat out of convenience. But I wouldn't touch the stuff anytime if my cholesterol-triglyceride ratio was over 4, but it's 2.0 so I can handle occasional bad food.
OMG, where's the :barf: emo? Meet breakfast is soft stuff like eggs, yogurt, and fruit. Also coffee. No grease! Jeepers! Hammer Gel & HEED during the day!
It is certainly an individual thing. Those that I bolded above make me want to vomit ;)
Anything that looks like it should come out of you, rather than be put in you just doesn't work for me.
So long as there's time, I always eat a PB&J the morning before a swim meet, or any other athletic activity. I drink tons of water, nearly from the moment I wake up and all day. If I'm doing a distance event (such as the 800/1500m), I'll bring a protein bar and/or Gatorade to help recover after, before other events (again, depending on time).
I've swum normal workouts the day prior, skipped, and nearly anything in between. I saw little to no difference in my actual results based on that. The same is true based on meet warm-up... I showed up for a meet once after running 14 miles that morning and eating a huge breakfast with absolutely no warm-up at all (I arrived about 2 min before my first heat) and had PB's in the events I swam...as well as others when I was there for meet warm-up and was way off.
Most hotels with a hot food breakfast buffet up here have hash browns.Hey, I paid for it as part of the room cost so I'll enjoy them.If I don't get some fat in my breakfast I'll be hungry again too soon.You didn't note we all eat sausage too.We have to eat this since we can't get blubber anymore.
You didn't note we all eat sausage too.We have to eat this since we can't get blubber anymore.
True 'dat. As we get around to filling in the details, we can flesh out this Cascadian Diet in no time ...
