I swim an average of 30,000 yards a week. The way I get 30,000 is the question I have. Some weeks I swim three times and do 10,000 each day. Other weeks I swim six times a week and do 5,000 each day. I wonder which way is the most effective for training. I feel guilty when I only swim three times in a week, even though I have the same total yards.
What are your thoughts on this. Is it better, worse, or the same to swim three times a week instead of six times? I don't know, I am just trying different things to figure out what the best way to workout is. I should also mention that swimming is the only excercise I do and when I swim 10,000, I usually need the next day to recover.
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I'll bet there are as many different opinions as there are participants here.
Personally, I do 3500-4200 yards per day, 6 days a week. I just vary the intensity and set distance within each day's workout. (On days that follow an intense interval workout, I almost always have to hold back, take it slower.) Some days I'm dead tired before I even start, and I just plod along and "serve my sentence" (as I like to call it.) But I've tried skipping on days I feel that way and I seem to be worse off the rest of the day than if I force myself into the pool. (I think it's endorphin addiction.) And I'm almost always a bit crabby on Sundays (my day off.)
So if I were faced with the choices you offered here, I would do 6 days of 5000 yards each. Or maybe alternate between 6500 and 3500 or something like that.
I'll bet there are as many different opinions as there are participants here.
Personally, I do 3500-4200 yards per day, 6 days a week. I just vary the intensity and set distance within each day's workout. (On days that follow an intense interval workout, I almost always have to hold back, take it slower.) Some days I'm dead tired before I even start, and I just plod along and "serve my sentence" (as I like to call it.) But I've tried skipping on days I feel that way and I seem to be worse off the rest of the day than if I force myself into the pool. (I think it's endorphin addiction.) And I'm almost always a bit crabby on Sundays (my day off.)
So if I were faced with the choices you offered here, I would do 6 days of 5000 yards each. Or maybe alternate between 6500 and 3500 or something like that.
