I've been reading a great book about swim training. It devotes a chapter to each of the four strokes and one to IM. It was suggesting that IM should be tought of as an entirely different event. That IM swimmers shouldn't train actual IMs until 5 weeks before their meet. The should train the strokes, swimming 800-1000 meters/yards EVERY practice (either swim, drill, kick, pull, ect).
It has an entire plan laid out for what the focus of every practice is. Basically, that each practice should be devoted to a different stroke.
I've always assumed that IMmers should swim IM all the time.
THOUGHTS?
I have to again correct myself. I reread the chapter more carefully. It did NOT say NO IM training, but said the focus should be on each stroke and the transistion between that stroke and the next.
Any theories as to why it says to not train fr/fly swims? Is it muscle memory? Or something else? Perhaps, becuase there is no real benefit?
Anyway ... the suggested sets are mostly things like I wrote above ... I want to try this one (I'd die and/or it'd take me three days but ... )
400 fly
400 (fly/back)
400 back
400 (back/***)
400 ***
400 (***/free)
400 free
400 IM
The individual stroke 400s can be turned to 200s (or even 100s or 50s) as can the 2 stroke sets.
Anyway ...
I have to again correct myself. I reread the chapter more carefully. It did NOT say NO IM training, but said the focus should be on each stroke and the transistion between that stroke and the next.
Any theories as to why it says to not train fr/fly swims? Is it muscle memory? Or something else? Perhaps, becuase there is no real benefit?
Anyway ... the suggested sets are mostly things like I wrote above ... I want to try this one (I'd die and/or it'd take me three days but ... )
400 fly
400 (fly/back)
400 back
400 (back/***)
400 ***
400 (***/free)
400 free
400 IM
The individual stroke 400s can be turned to 200s (or even 100s or 50s) as can the 2 stroke sets.
Anyway ...
