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High Intensity Training

Allen Stark

I just got my Streamlines and it has a list of high intensity workouts to swim faster, not longer. I looked at several and while there were sets doing from 25s to 200s,the workouts didn't seem to me to be what I would call HIIT(High Intensity Interval Training) because they were all doing 3000 yards or more in less than an hour. To me HIIT means race pace and as other threads have pointed out here the average Masters swimmer can't maintain AFAP pace or 100 pace without sufficient rest between efforts. Am I missing something?

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    Not missing anything at all - race pace needs a LOT of rest - quality over quantity and if you are counting total yards you are already not doing quality ... 100 pace for example -- real 100 pace at even current race pace level - you can maybe do 3-5x 50 at most -- with 3-8 min break ... even 25s at 100 pace -- you need real rest not easy swimming 200 - real rest for 2-4 min ... ask a track runner - they know better than us water animals 

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    Not missing anything at all - race pace needs a LOT of rest - quality over quantity and if you are counting total yards you are already not doing quality ... 100 pace for example -- real 100 pace at even current race pace level - you can maybe do 3-5x 50 at most -- with 3-8 min break ... even 25s at 100 pace -- you need real rest not easy swimming 200 - real rest for 2-4 min ... ask a track runner - they know better than us water animals 

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