when I swim at a middle distance race pace, like if im doing 5 x 100 on a quick interval my muscles get tired faster than my heart. I wont even be breathing hard but my arms are tired and causes my stroke techinque to go bad quick. Does anyone else have this problem.
Because swimmers are horizontal,blood perfusion is less of a problem and cardiac output is rarely the rate limiting step in reasonably trained swimmers. Issues of technique are important,but not what I'll discuss now. If your muscles are burning you are producing lactic acid faster than it can be removed. This means you are training at faster than your anaerobic threshhold. That is a good thing if you are a sprinter as that is where you will be in your racesIMHO. As a sprinter I believe that in some workouts you should press on as long as your stroke doen't get too ragged to build up lactic acid tolerance. Other days you should lengthen your rest interval so you can do more racepace work.
Morgan,not to question your coach too much,but as I noted in another thread I don't know of any world class sprinter who doesn't pull past their waist. That seems to be a technique more popular with distance swimmers.
Because swimmers are horizontal,blood perfusion is less of a problem and cardiac output is rarely the rate limiting step in reasonably trained swimmers. Issues of technique are important,but not what I'll discuss now. If your muscles are burning you are producing lactic acid faster than it can be removed. This means you are training at faster than your anaerobic threshhold. That is a good thing if you are a sprinter as that is where you will be in your racesIMHO. As a sprinter I believe that in some workouts you should press on as long as your stroke doen't get too ragged to build up lactic acid tolerance. Other days you should lengthen your rest interval so you can do more racepace work.
Morgan,not to question your coach too much,but as I noted in another thread I don't know of any world class sprinter who doesn't pull past their waist. That seems to be a technique more popular with distance swimmers.
