I've been counting breaths and strokes at 25 & 50 yds.
I seem to be doing 6 strokes before a breath, breathing about 4 times then flip turn, doing 3 strokes and a breath, then finishing the 50 with the contunied 6 -4 strokes and a breath.
Finshing 50yds in 35 sec. starting from the wall, I didn't feel it was 100% because I had already swam about 2X200's with a 3:00 min rest before this first interval. Plus pool was too warm today yuk!
Is is good, not good, can improve, what should my goal be?
I agree with you scyfreestyler- people seem to use the terms "sprint" and "fast" interchangeably when I think they are different. My former masters coach would say that we were going to do a sprint set. I would get all excited, and then she would tell us we were doing 10 100's on 1:20! Then I'd get deflated as to me that is not a sprint set, but instead an endurance set which i would try to swim the fastest pace i could.
I like at least :30 sec / 25 rest if I'm sprinting in order to recover reasonably well to continue on.
For a broken swim like one of the posters was suggesting, taking 5 or 10 sec rest for each 25 for a 100 swim, i'd want to rest a couple of minutes in between each 100, not 40 sec.
I agree with you scyfreestyler- people seem to use the terms "sprint" and "fast" interchangeably when I think they are different. My former masters coach would say that we were going to do a sprint set. I would get all excited, and then she would tell us we were doing 10 100's on 1:20! Then I'd get deflated as to me that is not a sprint set, but instead an endurance set which i would try to swim the fastest pace i could.
I like at least :30 sec / 25 rest if I'm sprinting in order to recover reasonably well to continue on.
For a broken swim like one of the posters was suggesting, taking 5 or 10 sec rest for each 25 for a 100 swim, i'd want to rest a couple of minutes in between each 100, not 40 sec.
