I have never swam in lcm before but I plan to this summer. What adjustments should I make to training for lcm in a scm pool?
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The only time I get to swim LCM is in the summer. Its a pleasure to be swimming outdoors in the early morning, but my summer focus is OW. I usually do tune up sessions at the pool, getting my stroke nice and long. Last summer I worked a lot with a Tempo Trainer. Sets like 50m at 34 SLP starting with a 1.00 second stroke rate. Two or three reps then up the tempo to .95 seconds per stroke etc. repeat until failure.
LCM is the place to work on stuff that is disrupted by the short swimming intervals of SCY.
There was a thread a little while back that compared the performances of those who trained LCM vs those who trained SCY.
The only time I get to swim LCM is in the summer. Its a pleasure to be swimming outdoors in the early morning, but my summer focus is OW. I usually do tune up sessions at the pool, getting my stroke nice and long. Last summer I worked a lot with a Tempo Trainer. Sets like 50m at 34 SLP starting with a 1.00 second stroke rate. Two or three reps then up the tempo to .95 seconds per stroke etc. repeat until failure.
LCM is the place to work on stuff that is disrupted by the short swimming intervals of SCY.
There was a thread a little while back that compared the performances of those who trained LCM vs those who trained SCY.
