I'm interested to know what kind of workouts people are doing who are preparing for 200 back, long or short course. I'm interested primarily because I'm pretty much incapable of approaching the distances and volume that Ande has been doing recently.
What are the rest of you doing? Are you gunning for a top 10 time, a National Qualifying Time, a PB, or are you just trying to stave off a precipitous decline in speed? What is the longest interval you'll do with any frequency? Do you ever get up to the 800's that Ande is posting?
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Hi Tom,
If the goal is to swim a better 200...then interval training may help over the distance work.
Personally I found that swimming longer distances will teach you to swim with energy conservation in mind rather than speed.
True your stamina will improve...but working 200 repeats at a hard pace may outweigh the distance training. Just my 2 cents.
Depending on your workout speed...set the work interval to get about 15 seconds rest on the 200's...and ten seconds on the 100's.
A good yardage total should add up to around 2,000 on any given interval set. ie...10 x 200 ...or 20 x 100
Hi Tom,
If the goal is to swim a better 200...then interval training may help over the distance work.
Personally I found that swimming longer distances will teach you to swim with energy conservation in mind rather than speed.
True your stamina will improve...but working 200 repeats at a hard pace may outweigh the distance training. Just my 2 cents.
Depending on your workout speed...set the work interval to get about 15 seconds rest on the 200's...and ten seconds on the 100's.
A good yardage total should add up to around 2,000 on any given interval set. ie...10 x 200 ...or 20 x 100
