Posted workouts

Originally posted by BillS I am currently self-coached using Mo's workouts. I think it is a whole lot better to have a workout to follow, even if you modify it to fit your conditioning or time constraints, than to just try and make something up. I don't look at what's on tap until I get to the pool, then just try to swim the workout more or less as written. Mo's are the least complicated of the 3; I tend to get bogged down in all the acronyms and code words used by the other 2. That may be due to the fact that I have not swum competitively since high school and am not familiar with some of the modern terms. Mo has a very good introductory thread in which she explains her drills and terms. Pretty easy to follow after a couple of weeks. I just print it out every day, lay it in the gutter and let it get soaked while I swim, then wad it up and pitch it in the trash as I leave. Couldn't be simpler. In about 8 months swimming, with 6 of those on Mo's program, I've lost 10 - 12 pounds, have gained quite a bit of strength and conditioning, and the drills (along with some TI stuff and Emmet Hines' articles) have made me think about and modify my stroke mechanics quite a bit. I have no idea how much faster I am, but that was not my focus when I started. But that may change if I can fit my schedule around my local team's. I keep a ziplock sandwhich bag in my swim bag. Each swim day, I stick the work-out into it, and pitch the old. It stays more readable in the gutter that way! Glad to hear others like Mo's work-out also. I have been building back up to the 3000+ yards per work-out after being a bit lazy this last year. I take turns cutting out the drills, or the desert, but always do one or the other with the main. I also do them a week behind because I start on Sunday, and they are not posted until Monday.

Originally posted by BillS I am currently self-coached using Mo's workouts. I think it is a whole lot better to have a workout to follow, even if you modify it to fit your conditioning or time constraints, than to just try and make something up. I don't look at what's on tap until I get to the pool, then just try to swim the workout more or less as written. Mo's are the least complicated of the 3; I tend to get bogged down in all the acronyms and code words used by the other 2. That may be due to the fact that I have not swum competitively since high school and am not familiar with some of the modern terms. Mo has a very good introductory thread in which she explains her drills and terms. Pretty easy to follow after a couple of weeks. I just print it out every day, lay it in the gutter and let it get soaked while I swim, then wad it up and pitch it in the trash as I leave. Couldn't be simpler. In about 8 months swimming, with 6 of those on Mo's program, I've lost 10 - 12 pounds, have gained quite a bit of strength and conditioning, and the drills (along with some TI stuff and Emmet Hines' articles) have made me think about and modify my stroke mechanics quite a bit. I have no idea how much faster I am, but that was not my focus when I started. But that may change if I can fit my schedule around my local team's. I keep a ziplock sandwhich bag in my swim bag. Each swim day, I stick the work-out into it, and pitch the old. It stays more readable in the gutter that way! Glad to hear others like Mo's work-out also. I have been building back up to the 3000+ yards per work-out after being a bit lazy this last year. I take turns cutting out the drills, or the desert, but always do one or the other with the main. I also do them a week behind because I start on Sunday, and they are not posted until Monday.