Hi all,
I'm the Slow Swimmer in Residence at my swim practices, and this often means that I'm maybe halfway done with a set when people are moving on to the next one. Usually, I have the slow lane to myself, which widens my options somewhat (if I don't, I do whatever the others are doing, even if it means moving on to the next set before I'm done with the previous one).
Since I almost NEVER finish my sets the same time as the others (unless I get to the practice earlier... that allows me to come out even with the others at least on the first set), would I benefit more from (a), (b) or (c)?:
(a) jump to the sets that others are doing even if not finished with all the repeats (ex.: 10x100; others have moved on to 250s. I have done 5-6 100s... following this option, I'd stop doing the 100s and move ahead to the 250s).
(b) finish the set I'm doing, then start on whatever set others are doing, even if they're, let's say, two or more sets ahead of me.
(c) finish the set I'm doing, then move on to the next one in the order the coach listed, only skipping ahead if the time allotted for the workout is drawing to a close and I need the warmdown.
Underlying all this, I guess what I am asking is whether it's better to do fewer repetitions but more of the sets that everyone's doing or all the repetitions but finish fewer sets.
Some might say I should retire to the open lap swim, but I'm not ready to do that. ;)
Thanks for your help!
Dorothy....its amazing to see how hard some people in this sport are still training! This group at Sun Devil is pretty insane.....the "D" workout last Friday was 600 warm up followed by 4 x 1000 @ 12:00!
A week from tomorrow is the infamous 100 x 100s New Years workout....otherwise known as the "do you knw a good shoulder surgeon" practice! :dedhorse:
I have a small little team that I love, though I'm a bit envious of these huge teams with tons of really fast people. Anyway, a few of our coaches completely tailor the workouts to the lane or swimmer. I've gotten so spoiled because I get a lot of sprint workouts and lots of fly. The lane next to me will be doing repeats of 250-300 and I'll be doing 100s. Then they do 100s and I do 50s and broken 100s ... so great!!!
The nice thing about differntiating workouts is that more people get what they want, the distance junkies get their yardage, I get my fast swimming, and the newbie's get drills and more instruction. All are happy - at least most are.
40 x 100 and 100 x 100 :bow:
100x100?? :eek:
I heard about this New Year's Eve thing on another forum, and I think I'd have to be in the pool for maybe New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, and maybe the next day too, and after that, in my chiro's office! ;)
That's if I could make the interval...
Amazing!
