Good Morning
I am reading about how to structure workouts and many recommend that I descend my times in a series of intervals. I know what it means but wonder what is the physiological basis for doing it.
Regards
Spudfin
One of the benefits of descending swims is that you learn to relax and stretch out in order to go slower on the first part. That conserves energy for the latter half of the race when the fast starters are beginning to feel it more. When you go faster later, you don't tie up as much as you do when you have pressed the first part of the race. It's hard for some people to hold back, fearing they will be too far behind, but once you have swum a race or two descending, and find you are actually going faster than if you had pushed from the beginning, you'll never go back.
One of the benefits of descending swims is that you learn to relax and stretch out in order to go slower on the first part. That conserves energy for the latter half of the race when the fast starters are beginning to feel it more. When you go faster later, you don't tie up as much as you do when you have pressed the first part of the race. It's hard for some people to hold back, fearing they will be too far behind, but once you have swum a race or two descending, and find you are actually going faster than if you had pushed from the beginning, you'll never go back.
