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.
Traditonal hypoxic training seems to have been replaced by many coaches/swimmers with snorkel training....something I added in a few years back and now use on about 25% of my sets.
I apologize in advance for my thick skull, but it's not obvious to me (who's never used a snorkel except when, well, snorkeling) how training with a snorkel would be in any way equivalent to hypoxic work (breathing less frequently, more SDKs off the wall, etc). I've always thought of a snorkel as a stroke training device. You don't need to breath side-to-side, so you can work on a nice symmetrical stroke.
Thx,
Skip Montanaro
Traditonal hypoxic training seems to have been replaced by many coaches/swimmers with snorkel training....something I added in a few years back and now use on about 25% of my sets.
I apologize in advance for my thick skull, but it's not obvious to me (who's never used a snorkel except when, well, snorkeling) how training with a snorkel would be in any way equivalent to hypoxic work (breathing less frequently, more SDKs off the wall, etc). I've always thought of a snorkel as a stroke training device. You don't need to breath side-to-side, so you can work on a nice symmetrical stroke.
Thx,
Skip Montanaro
