There has been some discussion lately about the necessity of recovery during training. So how much and what recovery do we need? How do we fit in all our training, cross-training, weights, etc. and still have time for recovery? What can we do to recover faster? How much recovery is needed prior to taper? How do you balance training hard and training and recovery?
It sucks getting old. I'm sore as hell. :toohurt:
I take 1 day off each week, usually Sunday when the pool is closed, and I don't do any other type of training on those days either (unless a hike in the mountains in the summer counts as a workout). If I'm really tired, I may also take a day in the middle of the week where I take it easy and do mainly drills and short, easy intervals. My routine is generally to swim 6 days a week with a double on 1 or 2 of those days and a 1-1/2 hour session of yoga at least once a week. In the last few weeks I've added spinning on 2 days a week and eliminated the double swim workouts. I'm also finding that I can't do a swim workout that's heavy on kicking or sprinting on the spin days. I'm going to follow the swim-spin-yoga routine until I begin my taper for nationals, then I will drop the spinning.
I take 1 day off each week, usually Sunday when the pool is closed, and I don't do any other type of training on those days either (unless a hike in the mountains in the summer counts as a workout). If I'm really tired, I may also take a day in the middle of the week where I take it easy and do mainly drills and short, easy intervals. My routine is generally to swim 6 days a week with a double on 1 or 2 of those days and a 1-1/2 hour session of yoga at least once a week. In the last few weeks I've added spinning on 2 days a week and eliminated the double swim workouts. I'm also finding that I can't do a swim workout that's heavy on kicking or sprinting on the spin days. I'm going to follow the swim-spin-yoga routine until I begin my taper for nationals, then I will drop the spinning.
