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.
Unless I'm not remembering correctly (and this could be), I think Terry Laughlin disputed the efficacy of hypoxic training many months ago.
With respect to freestyle sets where you breathe every 3-5-7 or some other restrictive breathing pattern, I have no idea. I don't do them.
However, I think shooters and dolphin kicking sets are invaluable for streamlining and SDKs. The more I'm underwater, the easier it is to stay underwater. When I back off the SDKs, I'm not as effective. I cut back on them during my last taper. That was a big mistake. I feel like I have to re-train myself. I'm trying Chris' taper trick next time.
I have no "evidence" to support this view. It just works for me in my personal experience. And these limited type of hypoxic sets have been assigned by coaches.
Unless I'm not remembering correctly (and this could be), I think Terry Laughlin disputed the efficacy of hypoxic training many months ago.
With respect to freestyle sets where you breathe every 3-5-7 or some other restrictive breathing pattern, I have no idea. I don't do them.
However, I think shooters and dolphin kicking sets are invaluable for streamlining and SDKs. The more I'm underwater, the easier it is to stay underwater. When I back off the SDKs, I'm not as effective. I cut back on them during my last taper. That was a big mistake. I feel like I have to re-train myself. I'm trying Chris' taper trick next time.
I have no "evidence" to support this view. It just works for me in my personal experience. And these limited type of hypoxic sets have been assigned by coaches.
