Heather, yea. Sorry about that. I may actually be turning into more of a middle distance person as I had exactly that "any 50s are a sprint set" mentality when I made the post.
Truly, the 2 sets of 8x50 were used as a cool down in preparation for the 3 sets of 8x50 free @ :40. I thought that this set would help sprinters b/c I'm always aiming to take 2 breaths or less on the 50 free and 3 or less in the 50 fly. AND, I have a tendancy as many others do to die on the second 25 (or halfway home on the 2nd 25), so I need some endurance on the 50 to just keep my speed that I have on the 1st three fourths of the race. There's my lame explanation. Perhaps I'm looking at this incorrectly. But I concur to the group.
Hey, my coach tricked me b/c I could have sworn she said that was a sprint set. :o
No need for apologies! :p
EVERYONE needs some endurace work, if only for health ...
Mid-distance is good, I'll do 200s. (Well free anyway) TRUE sprint sets actually would be like repeats of 25s done on 1 min or 1:15 as 12.5 sprint, 12.5 dps. MAYBE 25s, but with lots of rest or else it's a lactate threshold set.
The repeats of 50s you talked about are lactate threshold sets. That's very important, too.
Heather, yea. Sorry about that. I may actually be turning into more of a middle distance person as I had exactly that "any 50s are a sprint set" mentality when I made the post.
Truly, the 2 sets of 8x50 were used as a cool down in preparation for the 3 sets of 8x50 free @ :40. I thought that this set would help sprinters b/c I'm always aiming to take 2 breaths or less on the 50 free and 3 or less in the 50 fly. AND, I have a tendancy as many others do to die on the second 25 (or halfway home on the 2nd 25), so I need some endurance on the 50 to just keep my speed that I have on the 1st three fourths of the race. There's my lame explanation. Perhaps I'm looking at this incorrectly. But I concur to the group.
Hey, my coach tricked me b/c I could have sworn she said that was a sprint set. :o
No need for apologies! :p
EVERYONE needs some endurace work, if only for health ...
Mid-distance is good, I'll do 200s. (Well free anyway) TRUE sprint sets actually would be like repeats of 25s done on 1 min or 1:15 as 12.5 sprint, 12.5 dps. MAYBE 25s, but with lots of rest or else it's a lactate threshold set.
The repeats of 50s you talked about are lactate threshold sets. That's very important, too.
