Hypoxic Advice/Workouts--Not Your opinion of Hypox Efficacy
Former Member
Discusing Hypoxic sets with a freind, can anyone suggest a good hypoxic set for me.
I'm doing 3500-4000 3x a week and a short sprint workout on the weekend. I will not likely add another day to my schedule.
What's a good starting workout, and also where in my workout should I do this? Do you mix it up e.g. hard interval set then a hypox or hypox and then a pace set.
I am guessing mixing is a good thing but what's a good start point for a set and intervals for this? BR and FR being my stronger strokes.
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Former Member
I really don't get the point of holding your breath for long sets. That's a completely useless skill for racing.
A while ago I decided that I always wanted to swim the 50 free without breathing. All I had to do was swim a 50 without breathing every once in a while and I had the skill down. No need to do any long hypoxic sets.
Let's forget the science of it all.
...It's the 150 mark of a 200 BR and you're hitting the turns, your mind and body are telling you to surface ASAP. Doing so cuts your pullout short.
I want to do this to at least train myself to mentally handle it...please don't blanket it as being a useless skill for racing.
I really don't get the point of holding your breath for long sets. That's a completely useless skill for racing.
A while ago I decided that I always wanted to swim the 50 free without breathing. All I had to do was swim a 50 without breathing every once in a while and I had the skill down. No need to do any long hypoxic sets.
Let's forget the science of it all.
...It's the 150 mark of a 200 BR and you're hitting the turns, your mind and body are telling you to surface ASAP. Doing so cuts your pullout short.
I want to do this to at least train myself to mentally handle it...please don't blanket it as being a useless skill for racing.
