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
Parents
Former Member
Wouldn't it be great if we did not have to think of all the words lactate, Vo2max etc. etc. and train how we felt.
Guess what I only train how I feel. I want to swim hard today. I want to swim steady today. Today I want to do technique = opps I do technique all the time.
I want to swim long or I want to swim short. Do I really need to be told what to do.
When I train I know when it is time for me to quicken the pace and when to back off.
Simple for me I only do 50s and 100s.
Wouldn't it be great if we did not have to think of all the words lactate, Vo2max etc. etc. and train how we felt.
Guess what I only train how I feel. I want to swim hard today. I want to swim steady today. Today I want to do technique = opps I do technique all the time.
I want to swim long or I want to swim short. Do I really need to be told what to do.
When I train I know when it is time for me to quicken the pace and when to back off.
Simple for me I only do 50s and 100s.
