Okay, I am doing pretty well at 500 yards - I am not winded or out of breath at the end of the workout.
My pool is closed for the next week and a half for cleaning (the whole YMCA shuts down).
When I go back, I was thinking about doing two 750 yard swims 6 days a week. How does this sound for fat burning and toning?
Good idea or not?
Thanks!
Best,
Chris
I like to warm-up to freestyle, and it depends on the water temp and if I am awake(I swim a lot in the morning), how fast I go, but it is never more than moderate pace. I like to start with an easy to moderate 200 free, then go into a 50 back/50 ***. I have been following Mo's work-outs on the web. The next thing on those work-outs is drilling and kicking. You might throw a couple 100 kick and drill with your work-out.
So if your goal is 850 yards, maybe 100 easy free, 100 drill/kick combos. 550 interval work using the pace clock, make the intervals challenging, but not impossibile, and 100 cool down, and stretch.
Valhallan is much more professional than I and gives great ideas. I really like the workouts given on the work-out site. So for your 550 work, maybe look over the sets listed there, pick an idea(pare it down for your ability, distance and time wise), and go from there.
For example, today's mainset for me is 14 * 100 with varying speeds(i.e. 25 build/75easy, 50 build/75 easy and so forth) with rest interval of :40.
You might change it to 5 * 50 free on 1:00, and do 25 build/25 easy, 25 fast/25 easy, all easy, 25 easy/25 fast, 25 east/25 build.
Then maybe an all out sprint to see where your time is for your last 50. This type of work-out can use any stroke.
Explanation on terminology is at the top of the work-outs.
I like to warm-up to freestyle, and it depends on the water temp and if I am awake(I swim a lot in the morning), how fast I go, but it is never more than moderate pace. I like to start with an easy to moderate 200 free, then go into a 50 back/50 ***. I have been following Mo's work-outs on the web. The next thing on those work-outs is drilling and kicking. You might throw a couple 100 kick and drill with your work-out.
So if your goal is 850 yards, maybe 100 easy free, 100 drill/kick combos. 550 interval work using the pace clock, make the intervals challenging, but not impossibile, and 100 cool down, and stretch.
Valhallan is much more professional than I and gives great ideas. I really like the workouts given on the work-out site. So for your 550 work, maybe look over the sets listed there, pick an idea(pare it down for your ability, distance and time wise), and go from there.
For example, today's mainset for me is 14 * 100 with varying speeds(i.e. 25 build/75easy, 50 build/75 easy and so forth) with rest interval of :40.
You might change it to 5 * 50 free on 1:00, and do 25 build/25 easy, 25 fast/25 easy, all easy, 25 easy/25 fast, 25 east/25 build.
Then maybe an all out sprint to see where your time is for your last 50. This type of work-out can use any stroke.
Explanation on terminology is at the top of the work-outs.
