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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To answer your question...the interval on Muppet's set is great for end of the year tapering.
As the rest increases ...the effort level should be near maximal. It's basically a formula to improve speed...aka an intensity set.
The opposite of this would be a set where the rest is reduced. That kind of overloading is a density set. Usually done in the earlier part of a season.
...Sam you must be a super fast backstroker. I tried that set today and wound up doing a 300 straight at the end.
(My 200 time at the moment is 2:05...where it used to be in the 1:55 range 20 years ago.) Hoping to get close to there again in the next few seasons...
Muppet: 1:53 ....200 back. Very impressive.
And Congrats Mollie on a great swim. It's a nice feeling to be as fast as your former self.
To answer your question...the interval on Muppet's set is great for end of the year tapering.
As the rest increases ...the effort level should be near maximal. It's basically a formula to improve speed...aka an intensity set.
The opposite of this would be a set where the rest is reduced. That kind of overloading is a density set. Usually done in the earlier part of a season.
...Sam you must be a super fast backstroker. I tried that set today and wound up doing a 300 straight at the end.
(My 200 time at the moment is 2:05...where it used to be in the 1:55 range 20 years ago.) Hoping to get close to there again in the next few seasons...
Muppet: 1:53 ....200 back. Very impressive.
And Congrats Mollie on a great swim. It's a nice feeling to be as fast as your former self.
