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How much aerobic work for sprinters?

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As I crawled back into the pool today fat and out of shape, I wondered: Don't sprinters need some minimal aerobic work? I see that Ande is doing none whatsoever and Paul advises not "fighting fat" in the pool. I do a lot of race pace training and cross training. But still, is just a little aerobic work called for? I can tell I don't need any for 50s, but my 100s could use a little something. I don't think I have the substantial swimming aerobic base that people like Ande have because I was out of the pool for so many years .. So I'm either taking my 100s out too slow for fear of dying or actually dying. Does aerobic work help counter this? Or do I need more lactate work such as doing 100s with huge amounts of rest?
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  • Anyway, here's the practice she submitted: warm-up: 1000 kick with fins, choice main set: swim/pull 20x100 free on 1:45 kick 1000 with fins, choice swim/pull 20x100 free, 10 swim, 10 pull on 1:45 kick 1000 with fins, choice swim 10x100 free on 1:45 swim, pull or swim with fins 8,000 total That's a lot of long kicking. I think kicking 200 at a time is boring, I can't imagine 1000s kicking! The whole workout seems kinda boring to me. And way too many yards with fins--I'm guessing that helps bump up the mileage some ;). IMO, it'd be more effective to take off the fins and cut back the yards on those kicks to fit the same amount of time. But then, I'm not an OW specialist, just an ADD middle-distance type.
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  • Anyway, here's the practice she submitted: warm-up: 1000 kick with fins, choice main set: swim/pull 20x100 free on 1:45 kick 1000 with fins, choice swim/pull 20x100 free, 10 swim, 10 pull on 1:45 kick 1000 with fins, choice swim 10x100 free on 1:45 swim, pull or swim with fins 8,000 total That's a lot of long kicking. I think kicking 200 at a time is boring, I can't imagine 1000s kicking! The whole workout seems kinda boring to me. And way too many yards with fins--I'm guessing that helps bump up the mileage some ;). IMO, it'd be more effective to take off the fins and cut back the yards on those kicks to fit the same amount of time. But then, I'm not an OW specialist, just an ADD middle-distance type.
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