At the request of Doug Adamavich, I'm about to start a new feature on the Arizona Masters Web site's blog called Fast Twitch.
It's not much different from what Ande Rasmussen is doing on this Web site. I won't be weighing myself and I will probably not go into much detail on weightlifting, though. I will post workouts each day (twice a day on the two days a week I do doubles) and add some comments and other stuff.
Since the blog on Arizona's site has no place for comments, you are welcome to post your thoughts about my workouts on this thread.
My first post is on the blog now. Take a look and I'll see you on the flip side.
Jeff
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I'm glad your doing your Blog Jeff. I'm sure you will find, as I'm sure Ande has, that it really does help a lot of swimmers.
One of the questions I have about your work outs is this. Since you are trying to do quality / high intensity yards, what do you do when you start to get tired and break form? Push through and still try to swim fast or back off a bit and work technique?
A good example of where I am coming from came last night. I did the following main set.
3 rounds of straight through:
4 X 75 IM (fly back ***) on 1:30
100 Free Pace on 2:00
The first round I went :52-:55 on the 75's
Second round :55-:56
Third round I was dead. 1:00-1:05. I drilled the fly and cruised the back and *** working on form. Essentially the last round bled into the warm down.
I'm wondering if I approached the whole set wrong and not gone so fast on the first two rounds or should I have gutted out the last round and pushed hard instead of backing off and working technique.
Kevin
I'm glad your doing your Blog Jeff. I'm sure you will find, as I'm sure Ande has, that it really does help a lot of swimmers.
One of the questions I have about your work outs is this. Since you are trying to do quality / high intensity yards, what do you do when you start to get tired and break form? Push through and still try to swim fast or back off a bit and work technique?
A good example of where I am coming from came last night. I did the following main set.
3 rounds of straight through:
4 X 75 IM (fly back ***) on 1:30
100 Free Pace on 2:00
The first round I went :52-:55 on the 75's
Second round :55-:56
Third round I was dead. 1:00-1:05. I drilled the fly and cruised the back and *** working on form. Essentially the last round bled into the warm down.
I'm wondering if I approached the whole set wrong and not gone so fast on the first two rounds or should I have gutted out the last round and pushed hard instead of backing off and working technique.
Kevin
