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 want to do this to at least train myself to mentally handle it...
Stud,
You and I are different from most of the posters here because we did not grow up competing in swimming. Shoot, I didn't learn know how to swim "proper" freestyle until I was 26 years old. And there are those who would say that even today I don't swim "proper" freestyle. :lmao:
So a lot of things that are "old hat" for many of the forumites are new to you and me.
Doing the breathing every 5, 7, 9 strokes helped my confidence a lot. It taught me, for example, that I can wait a couple of extra strokes to take a breath when going into a turn. (I don't have very good lung capacity and I still have a hard time forcing myself to consistently do flip turns. I tend to wimp out and take that big breath on an open turn.)
The veteran swimmers have been doing it for so long that it all just comes naturally to them. They've forgotten what it was like when they were learning.
When I was first trying to learn flip turns, I asked the best swimmer on our Masters team (a guy who had swum in the '84 Olympic Trials) if he would watch me and give me some pointers. I then asked him a question that began, "When you were learning how to do flip turns..." Dave very politely answered, "I don't remember. I've been doing flip turns since I was four."
So, do some hypoxic breathing sets. It's not going to hurt you (we hope). :drown:
Anna Lea
I want to do this to at least train myself to mentally handle it...
Stud,
You and I are different from most of the posters here because we did not grow up competing in swimming. Shoot, I didn't learn know how to swim "proper" freestyle until I was 26 years old. And there are those who would say that even today I don't swim "proper" freestyle. :lmao:
So a lot of things that are "old hat" for many of the forumites are new to you and me.
Doing the breathing every 5, 7, 9 strokes helped my confidence a lot. It taught me, for example, that I can wait a couple of extra strokes to take a breath when going into a turn. (I don't have very good lung capacity and I still have a hard time forcing myself to consistently do flip turns. I tend to wimp out and take that big breath on an open turn.)
The veteran swimmers have been doing it for so long that it all just comes naturally to them. They've forgotten what it was like when they were learning.
When I was first trying to learn flip turns, I asked the best swimmer on our Masters team (a guy who had swum in the '84 Olympic Trials) if he would watch me and give me some pointers. I then asked him a question that began, "When you were learning how to do flip turns..." Dave very politely answered, "I don't remember. I've been doing flip turns since I was four."
So, do some hypoxic breathing sets. It's not going to hurt you (we hope). :drown:
Anna Lea
