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?
The minimum amount for you to train is enough to grove your stroke so that it is as efficiect as you can get it(which generally requires a coach or an underwater video camera and lots of tapes of world class swimmers) and well conditioned enough to hold that stroke for the distance of the race. How far that is depends on many individual factors. For 100s I'd agree with George about 75s,50s,and 25s,but I'd also add 100s and 125s and 12.5s. 125s for over distance(especially important for LCM) and 12.5 to work on how sprinting feels.
The minimum amount for you to train is enough to grove your stroke so that it is as efficiect as you can get it(which generally requires a coach or an underwater video camera and lots of tapes of world class swimmers) and well conditioned enough to hold that stroke for the distance of the race. How far that is depends on many individual factors. For 100s I'd agree with George about 75s,50s,and 25s,but I'd also add 100s and 125s and 12.5s. 125s for over distance(especially important for LCM) and 12.5 to work on how sprinting feels.
