I am a relatively new swimmer and have a lot to learn. My question is, how much I should spend on drills and technique works vs. inteval. Currently I swim 3x/wk - 2 of which are on my own for an hour (mainly drills) and 1 is with a tri/swim club for 1.5hour or so which includes lots of interval. My fastest 100yd is 1:17. I can keep up with 10x100 at 1:45 and maybe able to do 1:40 (never tried). I have a two short term goals; one - I would like to break 1:15/100yd. Two - become a better open water swimmer (~2miles).
Thanks for your advice. Swimming has been very enjoyable and helpful as a recovery tool from running!
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I am a relatively new swimmer and have a lot to learn. My question is, how much I should spend on drills and technique works vs. inteval. Currently I swim 3x/wk - 2 of which are on my own for an hour (mainly drills) and 1 is with a tri/swim club for 1.5hour or so which includes lots of interval. My fastest 100yd is 1:17. I can keep up with 10x100 at 1:45 and maybe able to do 1:40 (never tried). I have a two short term goals; one - I would like to break 1:15/100yd. Two - become a better open water swimmer (~2miles).
Thanks for your advice. Swimming has been very enjoyable and helpful as a recovery tool from running!
My advice (which probably aint worth much anyway) is to focus mostly on technique and drills (and long smooth aerobic swimmming) when you are first starting out...then gradually work your way into some interval training (like 25 repeats and 50 repeats....maybe descending repeats...etc...with fairly long rest intervals at first)....then gradually shorten the rest intervals and up the intensity....but you need to start out by building a good aerobic base first and develop sound technique as well.
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I am a relatively new swimmer and have a lot to learn. My question is, how much I should spend on drills and technique works vs. inteval. Currently I swim 3x/wk - 2 of which are on my own for an hour (mainly drills) and 1 is with a tri/swim club for 1.5hour or so which includes lots of interval. My fastest 100yd is 1:17. I can keep up with 10x100 at 1:45 and maybe able to do 1:40 (never tried). I have a two short term goals; one - I would like to break 1:15/100yd. Two - become a better open water swimmer (~2miles).
Thanks for your advice. Swimming has been very enjoyable and helpful as a recovery tool from running!
My advice (which probably aint worth much anyway) is to focus mostly on technique and drills (and long smooth aerobic swimmming) when you are first starting out...then gradually work your way into some interval training (like 25 repeats and 50 repeats....maybe descending repeats...etc...with fairly long rest intervals at first)....then gradually shorten the rest intervals and up the intensity....but you need to start out by building a good aerobic base first and develop sound technique as well.
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