difference between aerobic threshold and all-out 100 times

RE: difference between aerobic threshold and all-out 100 times

Former Member — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:12:41 GMT

and anerobic time is doing your 100yd with as little breathing as possible and aerobic with regular comfortable intervals? Not quite, the aerobic/anaerobic threshold is the maximum speed you can swim at without going anaerobic - basically the fastest speed you can maintain indefinitely, or at least for more than several minutes. If you go faster than this speed you go anaerobic and start accumulating lactic acid faster than you can clear it so you won't be able to maintain your speed for very long. Your all-out 100yd time is the fastest time you can do 100yd in regardless of how much you breath.

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Former Member — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:21:05 GMT

and anerobic time is doing your 100yd with as little breathing as possible and aerobic with regular comfortable intervals?

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Former Member — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 07:52:29 GMT

Colin, we're referring to the difference in seconds between a swimmer's aerobic or anaerobic threshold, as measured in something like the pace per hundred yards in a 30-minute swim, and a swimmer's all-out time in a 100 freestyle event.

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Former Member — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 05:43:53 GMT

what are you guys talking about?

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Former Member — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:18:07 GMT

It was from a 2000 yd. swim which took me 26:48. The jargon gets used interchangeably by a lot of people (aerobic and anaerobic threshold). I have an exercise physiology book that I got used on amazon for $5 or so that I can refer to if I get hopelessly confused.

RE: difference between aerobic threshold and all-out 100 times

Former Member — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:52:53 GMT

I think you meant anaerobic threshold. Did you derive yours from a T-30 swim or something comparable? My 100 time now is about :56 (I am not a sprinter and don't swim this distance in meets). My anaerobic threshold is 1:18 on the basis of a T-30.

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Former Member — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:19:35 GMT

100 free time is 55.0 and pace is 1:13 for T-30. So I guess I fit in with everyone :D

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Former Member — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:21:17 GMT

I never gave it a thought. When swimming the marathon races you judged your swim times by who you raced and how fast they were swimming. The secret is not how fast you swim hundreds but can you win the race. Your pace changed many times during a race. Water temperature, wave action and tides control everything. Some times you go as fast as you can in order to bury another swimmer. Some times you draft of that swimmer to save your own strength.

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Former Member — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:47:44 GMT

I'm stubbornly clinging to delusions of distance swimming ability (my time difference at age 14 was 12 seconds, at least based on my 100 and 1650 times.)

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rtodd — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:40:00 GMT

61 sec in the 100 and I can barely hang onto 1:20-1:25

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knelson — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:17:04 GMT

I am right around a minute for the 100 free and about a 1:22-1:23 anearobic pace (2175 for T30, does that sound right?) Yeah, that's right. 30/21.75 = 1.38 = 1:22.8 I was just thinking about what the differences would be for the best distance swimmers, for example someone like Grant Hackett. I remember reading a couple months ago he was hoping to break 50 seconds in a 100 m LC free, but 'only' went a 51. Since he can swim a 1500 in about 14:40 (his WR is a 14:34, but that was back in 2001) that a 58.7 pace per hundred. I'm guessing he could hold maybe three seconds over that per hundred for his anaerobic threshhold, so let's say 1:02. That gives him a differential of 11 seconds. Based on this, I'd say anyone under 10 seconds is a pretty severe distance oreinted swimmer.

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aquaFeisty — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:16:55 GMT

I am right around a minute for the 100 free and about a 1:22-1:23 anearobic pace (2175 for T30, does that sound right?) I am also a sprinter with no delusions of distance ability and my 100 free is an all-out battle from the start to the last desperate prayerful 10 yards...

RE: difference between aerobic threshold and all-out 100 times

knelson — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:41:34 GMT

Right now 16 seconds. I swam a 100 free in 52 at a meet last weekend and held 1:08 on my timed 2000 yesterday.

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ourswimmer — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:00:30 GMT

I have never gone under 1:00 for 100 yards, but I can hold 1:15 pretty comfortably right now in workout. My favorite pool event is the 200 backstroke, but that is primarily because a pool mile is so boring. I like 5K in open water best.