There was some confusion over the previous poll "What is your favorite stroke?", as the word "favorite" can be interpreted many different ways. For example, someone may think it's his/her favorite because it's most graceful and likes to watch this stroke the most, but he/she may not necessarily swim this stroke.
So this is the new poll.
Please only select the stroke you PERSONALLY train and spend most time swimming (and thinking about).
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I think that the reality of a quality masters program is that the coach or coaches will devise workouts to fit the need of their swimmers. On our team, we have fitness swimmers, some national caliber pool competitors and some top ocean swimmers along with triatheletes. The workouts will vary by individual and depending on the time of year and what races are pending. Our triatheletes will taper to fit their race needs. Our pool and ocean swimmers will do a lot of free this time of year, along with weights to improve strength and cardio. As racing season and nationals approach, more stroke work is done by those who focus on particular strokes, as sprinters work on sprints and distance swimmers do their thing. During ocean season, lots of distance as well as sprint work to improve strength.
A good masters program will, IMHO, have different things going on all around. And your teammates will adjust as well. Like this morning when we decided to do the first 4 of our 8 x 200 set as IM instead of free.
And on just one other small matter, 100 is not really much of a warmup. You might want to up that. We usually do about 1200 meters of warmup stuff including, depending on the day, swims, pulls, kicks, drills, backstroke and breaststroke.
That's the "reality" of a good masters program imho.
I think that the reality of a quality masters program is that the coach or coaches will devise workouts to fit the need of their swimmers. On our team, we have fitness swimmers, some national caliber pool competitors and some top ocean swimmers along with triatheletes. The workouts will vary by individual and depending on the time of year and what races are pending. Our triatheletes will taper to fit their race needs. Our pool and ocean swimmers will do a lot of free this time of year, along with weights to improve strength and cardio. As racing season and nationals approach, more stroke work is done by those who focus on particular strokes, as sprinters work on sprints and distance swimmers do their thing. During ocean season, lots of distance as well as sprint work to improve strength.
A good masters program will, IMHO, have different things going on all around. And your teammates will adjust as well. Like this morning when we decided to do the first 4 of our 8 x 200 set as IM instead of free.
And on just one other small matter, 100 is not really much of a warmup. You might want to up that. We usually do about 1200 meters of warmup stuff including, depending on the day, swims, pulls, kicks, drills, backstroke and breaststroke.
That's the "reality" of a good masters program imho.
