Sorry if these questions have all been asked before, but here goes: I've been a lap swimmer for about 5 years and have been doing my 1 mile 3-4 times a week pretty much regularly, but I never seem to get any faster than my 35-40 minute mile. I've done plenty of searching via the internet and all of the workouts that I've come across (the shortest being in the 2500 range) are far too advanced and time consuming at the moment. Currently I'm rather overwhelmed. I understand the notion of intervals and anaerobic work, but when and how often should I be doing them? I've thought about joining the closest master's team(St. Louis) , but they are well over an hour away and at the moment I doubt that I would benefit from joining since I'd only be able to get up there once a month or so. Would anyone out there be willing to get me going in the right direction?
Thanks, John
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Rob, I didn't mean to imply that I'm overwhelmed with time restraints (although that certainly does happen quite often) merely that I'm overwhelmed with the workout lengths, types, and pace. Many of the workouts I've seen suggest swimming a 100 on 1'25", which I can't do. How do I know what time I should swim the various sets to acheive the desired effect the workout is trying to produce? As a highly exaggerated example, I could swim the 100 on a 5' interval, but I doubt that I'd be getting the same effect. Do you see what I'm saying? When I raced bikes there were very specific workouts designed around improving power, aerobic threshold, strength endurance, lactate threshold and the like, but as of yet I've not found anything that outlines this for me with swimming.
Thanks for your response,
John
Rob, I didn't mean to imply that I'm overwhelmed with time restraints (although that certainly does happen quite often) merely that I'm overwhelmed with the workout lengths, types, and pace. Many of the workouts I've seen suggest swimming a 100 on 1'25", which I can't do. How do I know what time I should swim the various sets to acheive the desired effect the workout is trying to produce? As a highly exaggerated example, I could swim the 100 on a 5' interval, but I doubt that I'd be getting the same effect. Do you see what I'm saying? When I raced bikes there were very specific workouts designed around improving power, aerobic threshold, strength endurance, lactate threshold and the like, but as of yet I've not found anything that outlines this for me with swimming.
Thanks for your response,
John
