Looking at one-hour results, and just finishing New England Masters SCY Championships at Harvard, how is it that older swimmers are getting faster and faster, and pretty much everyone is getting faster and faster compared to a few years ago when there seemed to be more mortal swimmers?
What are older (45+ women; at this point 65+ men) swimmers doing that keeps them at such elite levels? Weights? Extensive training? How much of both? How do they have jobs and families and train? The field of fast swimmers is getting deeper and deeper. Anyone have idea as to why?
I want to know the secrets. Are the people who race now self-selecting more and more as elite swimmers? Has everyone swum all their lives? I know to swim hard you have to train hard, but I am baffled by sudden increase in amazing fast times and so many records getting broken.
Makes sense. Would training for the flys (with an emphasis on the 100 and 200) and distance frees be focused enough for the long course season? I enjoy practicing these things AND I think I can place best in these areas too.
Or would you drill down and specialize even further?
Now I'm guessing that I shouldn't even think about asking to throw in the IMs too, right?
So what are you willing to sacrafice on that spread of events? if yout want a solid 800/1500 (keep doing the workouts you posted) you won't have top in speed for the 100's and vice a versa?
Listen....the way you train there is no doubt you will have very decent times thru the entire spectrum; 50-1500. However if you want to really see what your capable of you have to train focused more on where the events "break" so to speak:
50/100
50/100/200
100/200/500
500/1000/1650/400IM
Being that this is masters, unless you are training almost entirely on your own its doubtfull you'll get the intense focus to specialize in the 50/100...Rich Abrahams is one of the few i know who do this exceptionally well.
Chris...I never said that aerobic base training isn't needed....but the workout she posted would be something I would only do a couple of times in the first month of a 6 month training cycle. Granted I keep my aerobic base more from cross training via spinning/cycling...but with an emphasis for me on the 100/200 that can of training doens't work for me.
Makes sense. Would training for the flys (with an emphasis on the 100 and 200) and distance frees be focused enough for the long course season? I enjoy practicing these things AND I think I can place best in these areas too.
Or would you drill down and specialize even further?
Now I'm guessing that I shouldn't even think about asking to throw in the IMs too, right?
So what are you willing to sacrafice on that spread of events? if yout want a solid 800/1500 (keep doing the workouts you posted) you won't have top in speed for the 100's and vice a versa?
Listen....the way you train there is no doubt you will have very decent times thru the entire spectrum; 50-1500. However if you want to really see what your capable of you have to train focused more on where the events "break" so to speak:
50/100
50/100/200
100/200/500
500/1000/1650/400IM
Being that this is masters, unless you are training almost entirely on your own its doubtfull you'll get the intense focus to specialize in the 50/100...Rich Abrahams is one of the few i know who do this exceptionally well.
Chris...I never said that aerobic base training isn't needed....but the workout she posted would be something I would only do a couple of times in the first month of a 6 month training cycle. Granted I keep my aerobic base more from cross training via spinning/cycling...but with an emphasis for me on the 100/200 that can of training doens't work for me.
