I just got Total immersion book yesterday.
Have read part 1 of the book and just started doing the drills today.
It seems an excallent way to swim and definatly will improve my f/s.
But i'm a bit weary because it's so comercail. so my question is,
Is Total immersion as good a way to swim as it makes out?
or is it the best way to learn how to swim?
Are there better books out there that teach you how to swim well(properly)?
Hope that makes sense
Swifty
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Originally posted by gull80
I would define fast as En3 or race pace. Obviously this will depend on the individual's anaerobic threshold as well as the race he or she is training for. One of the reasons coaches like Mike Bottom use sprint assisted training is to give swimmers a feel for what it is like to move through the water at a very fast pace.
In her book Choose To Win, Susie O'Neill (Aus.) -World Record holder in the 200 fly from 1999 until 2005- describes how she saw sprinter Alex. Popov (Rus.) -under Genady Touretski- almost breaking World Records in workouts, and how she tried herself to emulate this in her own workouts.
That's breaking a plateau, that workouts train you to stay on it, complacently.
For energy systems, I am familiar with five:
Explosive, Sprint Race, VO2Max, threshold and aerobic.
They use five different sources of energy.
In a 500 yards race, the body shifts from one energy system to another, so it is important to train them in percentages of the total mileage of a 52 week season.
Originally posted by gull80
I would define fast as En3 or race pace. Obviously this will depend on the individual's anaerobic threshold as well as the race he or she is training for. One of the reasons coaches like Mike Bottom use sprint assisted training is to give swimmers a feel for what it is like to move through the water at a very fast pace.
In her book Choose To Win, Susie O'Neill (Aus.) -World Record holder in the 200 fly from 1999 until 2005- describes how she saw sprinter Alex. Popov (Rus.) -under Genady Touretski- almost breaking World Records in workouts, and how she tried herself to emulate this in her own workouts.
That's breaking a plateau, that workouts train you to stay on it, complacently.
For energy systems, I am familiar with five:
Explosive, Sprint Race, VO2Max, threshold and aerobic.
They use five different sources of energy.
In a 500 yards race, the body shifts from one energy system to another, so it is important to train them in percentages of the total mileage of a 52 week season.
