Hey all. Sorry to be so questiony lately, but you're the best swimming advice resource I know. Anyway . . .
As I mentioned in my getting out early thread, I recently joined a new team. However, my great joy in being able to swim four days a week meant I went from between 3,000 and 5,000 yards per week to something like 12,000 to 14,000 with no increments. As a result, I would up swimming badly and finally getting out one day.
My new team is on hiatus till Spetember now, so I'll be back at 3000-5000 till then, with one full week off. Given the workout possibilities below, what kind of progression would you suggest if I want to eventually do 12,000-14,000 yds., Mon to Thurs? (I'll ask my coach in Sept., but I like lots of opinions.)
Mon: 1500-2500 yds.
Tues: 1500-2500 yds.
Weds: 3000-3500 m.
Thurs: 5000-5500 yds.
Sat: 3000-3500 m.
Sun: 4000-5000 m.
I don't want to swim Saturday and Sunday mornings forever, but I'm willing to do so for a month or two if it will make getting to my goal schedule easier.
Thanks again for all your expertise.
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Originally posted by some_girl
My new team is on hiatus till Spetember now, so I'll be back at 3000-5000 till then, with one full week off. Given the workout possibilities below, what kind of progression would you suggest if I want to eventually do 12,000-14,000 yds., Mon to Thurs? (I'll ask my coach in Sept., but I like lots of opinions.)
Mon: 1500-2500 yds.
Tues: 1500-2500 yds.
Weds: 3000-3500 m.
Thurs: 5000-5500 yds.
Sat: 3000-3500 m.
Sun: 4000-5000 m.
The statement above isn't clear to me.
It seems to me that if you are doing 3-5K over 4 days, that's about 1000/day. And you want to get to 12-14K, meaning you roughly have to triple your daily workout.
That's a huge leap.
Are you proposing the above set of workout yardage above as a way to get to your goal? If you are used to 1000/day now, you will simply die by Thursday with the progression above. In my opinion you simply will not (safely) jump to triple the yardage in 3 or 4 weeks.
My recommendation: Put a stake in the ground -- such as 1200 yards per day. Do that for a few days, then add 100 yards per day every other day. (And maybe not even that rapidly. Maybe every 3rd day.) Maybe by September you can get up to 2000 per day. That's not bad at all!
Keep after it, and by Thanksgiving the full workouts will be routine.
Originally posted by some_girl
My new team is on hiatus till Spetember now, so I'll be back at 3000-5000 till then, with one full week off. Given the workout possibilities below, what kind of progression would you suggest if I want to eventually do 12,000-14,000 yds., Mon to Thurs? (I'll ask my coach in Sept., but I like lots of opinions.)
Mon: 1500-2500 yds.
Tues: 1500-2500 yds.
Weds: 3000-3500 m.
Thurs: 5000-5500 yds.
Sat: 3000-3500 m.
Sun: 4000-5000 m.
The statement above isn't clear to me.
It seems to me that if you are doing 3-5K over 4 days, that's about 1000/day. And you want to get to 12-14K, meaning you roughly have to triple your daily workout.
That's a huge leap.
Are you proposing the above set of workout yardage above as a way to get to your goal? If you are used to 1000/day now, you will simply die by Thursday with the progression above. In my opinion you simply will not (safely) jump to triple the yardage in 3 or 4 weeks.
My recommendation: Put a stake in the ground -- such as 1200 yards per day. Do that for a few days, then add 100 yards per day every other day. (And maybe not even that rapidly. Maybe every 3rd day.) Maybe by September you can get up to 2000 per day. That's not bad at all!
Keep after it, and by Thanksgiving the full workouts will be routine.
