Hey, Forumites! I am training for the National Senior Games in June (and a few meets before then). My events will be: 50 br, 200 br, 100 fly, 200 fly, 200 IM, and 400 IM. My two breaststroke events rank highest in priority with the 200 fly and 400 IM equal priority after that. 100 fly and 200 IM are last priority.
How do you think I should divide my training up between the four strokes and different race paces for each of the events? I swim six days per week, and I typically limit my daily yardage to 2,500 yards to prevent repetitive stress injuries.
Your advice would be most appreciated. :agree:
Thanks!
My meet lineups usually involve all four strokes (for instance, in a couple weeks I'm swimming 50/100 free, 50/100 ***, 100 back, 100 fly), and I just train like a sprint IMer. Obviously that's not as varied in distance as you, and a lot of my free/fly/back is walls and dolphin kick, so thing will be a little different.
If I were you I'd probably do my main set focused toward the long stuff and breaststroke, and then do a short finisher working on speed. Doesn't even have to be more than 400 yards or so - think like:
4x50 variable speed (fast/ez, ez/fast, ez, fast) + 8x25 o-shooter, e-ez
or something like that. There's a million different variations on short speed work that doesn't add much to yardage - I can give you some more if you want.
My meet lineups usually involve all four strokes (for instance, in a couple weeks I'm swimming 50/100 free, 50/100 ***, 100 back, 100 fly), and I just train like a sprint IMer. Obviously that's not as varied in distance as you, and a lot of my free/fly/back is walls and dolphin kick, so thing will be a little different.
If I were you I'd probably do my main set focused toward the long stuff and breaststroke, and then do a short finisher working on speed. Doesn't even have to be more than 400 yards or so - think like:
4x50 variable speed (fast/ez, ez/fast, ez, fast) + 8x25 o-shooter, e-ez
or something like that. There's a million different variations on short speed work that doesn't add much to yardage - I can give you some more if you want.
