I think most masters who work out with a team tend to swim about 3-4 K per work out. But what I want to know is what percentage of that is hard swimming? And by hard I mean race pace effort.
For example, last nights work out was the following.
4X200 warm up. (EZ swimming)
10X100 - odd on 1:35 (EZ) Even on 1:20 (hard)
3 rounds of the following
200 on 3:00 Build (EZ/moderate)
3X100 on 1:40 (25 hard/25 EZ...)
4X50 kick on 1:05
Warm down 200
2750 of this was EZ or moderate swimming. And only 950 was hard swimming. About 26%. For the high intensity/quality yards fans is this about right or is it a little light?
Kevin
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I agree with this, and to me there's no way you could do that 10x100 set on 1:35/1:20 with the hard ones anywhere close to race pace. It's just not enough rest. At least I should say I couldn't. Anyway, my idea of a set where you're going close to race pace requires more like a 1:1 swim to rest ratio.
From that stand point, yeah swimming a 100 close to my race time in practice would be impossible that many times. By number two I would blow chow. I was refering to level of effort. And even with a great deal of effort during this set I was about 10 seconds off race pace for a 100.
I guess a better question is what is considered hard swimming or quality yards?
I agree with this, and to me there's no way you could do that 10x100 set on 1:35/1:20 with the hard ones anywhere close to race pace. It's just not enough rest. At least I should say I couldn't. Anyway, my idea of a set where you're going close to race pace requires more like a 1:1 swim to rest ratio.
From that stand point, yeah swimming a 100 close to my race time in practice would be impossible that many times. By number two I would blow chow. I was refering to level of effort. And even with a great deal of effort during this set I was about 10 seconds off race pace for a 100.
I guess a better question is what is considered hard swimming or quality yards?
