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
Any more rest and the other swimmers complain and want to shorten the interval.
I could see where this would be a problem. I think a lot of swimmers want to get in X amount of yards in their hour or whatever and get kind of annoyed if they fall short. Also it's tough to crank it up like that. A few hundred yards of fast swimming is way more difficult than just keeping an aerobic pace up for an hour or so. Not everyone wants to work their tail off.
Any more rest and the other swimmers complain and want to shorten the interval.
I could see where this would be a problem. I think a lot of swimmers want to get in X amount of yards in their hour or whatever and get kind of annoyed if they fall short. Also it's tough to crank it up like that. A few hundred yards of fast swimming is way more difficult than just keeping an aerobic pace up for an hour or so. Not everyone wants to work their tail off.
