Anyone here regularly swim at night (6pm or later)? If so, do you have any tips or strategies for making workouts productive even when it's late out? In general, does the time of day affect your energy level in the pool?
I usually don't swim nights, as I've been a die hard morning swimmer - with occasional afternoon swims when I can fit them in. Tragically, morning workouts at my pool are no longer available daily :violin:so I look to you all for pointers as I convert to being a bit of a "night swimmer" myself in order to plug in those daily sessions and work with the only time slots my pool has currently available!
From what I understand, intense workout right before bedtime can disrupt your sleep cycle, so I'm trying to dance over this challenge since I don't know if I'm doing myself a favor if workouts come at the price of much needed rest :bed:Maybe an easy or moderate pace in new night practice is necessary to adjust to the time change, and intensity and distance can be added a few weeks out from then?
Anyone here regularly swim at night (6pm or later)? If so, do you have any tips or strategies for making workouts productive even when it's late out? In general, does the time of day affect your energy level in the pool?
The time of day doesn't matter to me as much as how much sleep I've had and how long it's been since the previous workout. I'm usually in the water until 7 or 7:30 pm, dinner, sleep around 11 pm, wake-up around 7:30 am. I don't have any issues with it, but I've always considered myself a night person. If you can push back when you wake up, that's the most obvious solution, or throw in a nap during the day. If those aren't options, let's assume you can still do some workouts on weekends during morning/afternoon hours...use those days for the sprint/high rest sets that are time consuming. Use the night workouts to crank out yardage at pace speeds (with fins half the time). That way you're out of the water as soon as possible.
Anyone here regularly swim at night (6pm or later)? If so, do you have any tips or strategies for making workouts productive even when it's late out? In general, does the time of day affect your energy level in the pool?
The time of day doesn't matter to me as much as how much sleep I've had and how long it's been since the previous workout. I'm usually in the water until 7 or 7:30 pm, dinner, sleep around 11 pm, wake-up around 7:30 am. I don't have any issues with it, but I've always considered myself a night person. If you can push back when you wake up, that's the most obvious solution, or throw in a nap during the day. If those aren't options, let's assume you can still do some workouts on weekends during morning/afternoon hours...use those days for the sprint/high rest sets that are time consuming. Use the night workouts to crank out yardage at pace speeds (with fins half the time). That way you're out of the water as soon as possible.
