After reading alot of threads, it seems my volume and frequency is way lower than everyone elses. My freestyle workouts are typically no more than 1500 to 1700 yards. If it is a repeat workout, then it is less (i.e. 10x100, 5x200, 2x500....etc) I swim three times a week.
My fly, *** and back workouts are no more than 1000 yds (still learning those strokes).
I am biased towards the sprints like 100 free and maybe someday if I'm lucky the 200 IM. Is this volume OK for a 42 year old, or should I be trying to build in more yardage?
I was at a seminar years ago where they said that although conditioning goes down very fast with inactivity,exercising once a week vastly slows the decline. You can't get in shape swimming once a week but if you are in shape and have to change your schedule for business,family,or illness if you can swim or cross train even a little it makes a difference.(Don't you just hate it when life interferes with swimming.)
I was at a seminar years ago where they said that although conditioning goes down very fast with inactivity,exercising once a week vastly slows the decline. You can't get in shape swimming once a week but if you are in shape and have to change your schedule for business,family,or illness if you can swim or cross train even a little it makes a difference.(Don't you just hate it when life interferes with swimming.)
