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 have two questions to answer:
1) Kevin, if you were planning to go all-out on all the 75 IMs, then you should have not drilled the last round. In sets like these, you will get tired and you will feel like you can't get your arms over the water. That's the point. You are pushing your body to the breaking point and pushing it further. You're trying to tell your body to continue to swim fast -- and swim correctly -- despite the large amounts of lactate in your body. I'm doing a set tomorrow (Thursday) that will illustrate this.
Got it. While I wasn't going all out, I was certainly going 90%. But your response does help me a lot. I wussed when I should have pushed.
In truth, I didn't know what I was supposed to do on that set. See my problem is the work out is written just like I typed it above and the coach on deck is not a swimmer. He just hands out the printed work outs and "baby sits." So I am left to decipher the set on my own and with my training background prior to masters being pretty darn weak, I am usually guessing what level of effort to swim in each set. This is something I am hoping to change and ultimately get more out of each work out.
Kevin
I have two questions to answer:
1) Kevin, if you were planning to go all-out on all the 75 IMs, then you should have not drilled the last round. In sets like these, you will get tired and you will feel like you can't get your arms over the water. That's the point. You are pushing your body to the breaking point and pushing it further. You're trying to tell your body to continue to swim fast -- and swim correctly -- despite the large amounts of lactate in your body. I'm doing a set tomorrow (Thursday) that will illustrate this.
Got it. While I wasn't going all out, I was certainly going 90%. But your response does help me a lot. I wussed when I should have pushed.
In truth, I didn't know what I was supposed to do on that set. See my problem is the work out is written just like I typed it above and the coach on deck is not a swimmer. He just hands out the printed work outs and "baby sits." So I am left to decipher the set on my own and with my training background prior to masters being pretty darn weak, I am usually guessing what level of effort to swim in each set. This is something I am hoping to change and ultimately get more out of each work out.
Kevin
