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
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1. Forces you to know your pace by feel and by time.
2. Forces you to manage your energy levels.
3. Simulates a negative split race.
4. Encourages better form by starting smooth and slow and building into a frenzy rather than going all-out from the first rep.
5. Gives you a mental target during the swim, which may help break up the monotony of some workouts. But not those 5x1000 things.
Done right, they're exhausting - the next to last rep should almost leave you at the crisis stage while still thinking you can crank out one more good swim.
Variation: decend the intervals but keep the swim pace constant at a fairly strenuous energy level.
DV
1. Forces you to know your pace by feel and by time.
2. Forces you to manage your energy levels.
3. Simulates a negative split race.
4. Encourages better form by starting smooth and slow and building into a frenzy rather than going all-out from the first rep.
5. Gives you a mental target during the swim, which may help break up the monotony of some workouts. But not those 5x1000 things.
Done right, they're exhausting - the next to last rep should almost leave you at the crisis stage while still thinking you can crank out one more good swim.
Variation: decend the intervals but keep the swim pace constant at a fairly strenuous energy level.
DV
