To quote Gull: What is the right mix of technique and endurance for a Masters athlete (who wants to be competitive, say, at Nationals) with a finite amount of time to train?
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That gets it about right. Physiologists say that, for a trained athlete (not a formerly sedentary one), it takes about eight weeks of training to build aerobic conditioning sufficient to support the more performance-related training that will follow it. After that you can't move the needle on aerobic fitness very much. So the question becomes, what is the role of aerobic training after that point.
This suggests that one should be mindful of doing those sets in such a way that they do promote recovery and don't compromise your readiness to do the more race-specific training properly.
7 weeks might be right for Allen; he's a sprinter. But what about distance swimmers like yourself and others (like me). Paul says we need a very different program.
That gets it about right. Physiologists say that, for a trained athlete (not a formerly sedentary one), it takes about eight weeks of training to build aerobic conditioning sufficient to support the more performance-related training that will follow it. After that you can't move the needle on aerobic fitness very much. So the question becomes, what is the role of aerobic training after that point.
This suggests that one should be mindful of doing those sets in such a way that they do promote recovery and don't compromise your readiness to do the more race-specific training properly.
7 weeks might be right for Allen; he's a sprinter. But what about distance swimmers like yourself and others (like me). Paul says we need a very different program.
