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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I believe you are all chasing a dream which will never come if you are dwelling on
Max Vo2
Aerobic
Aenerobic
Lactic Theshold
and so on
Get in and swim, do some easy swimming, some medium speed repeats, some fast hard sprint repeats, and some all out sprints. Work on your dives, turns and your streamline. Guess what you will be doing all of the above without thinking about it.
Way too much to think about
I am 74 - My birthday is May 19th are all of the figures going to be changed because I am a year older.
Resting heart rate 60
Aerobic min heart rate 111.6
Aerobic max 128.8
Aenerobic min 128.8
AenerobicThreshold max 137.4
Max Vo2 min 137.4
Max Vo2 max 141.7
Lactic Threshold 142.56
I believe you are all chasing a dream which will never come if you are dwelling on
Max Vo2
Aerobic
Aenerobic
Lactic Theshold
and so on
Get in and swim, do some easy swimming, some medium speed repeats, some fast hard sprint repeats, and some all out sprints. Work on your dives, turns and your streamline. Guess what you will be doing all of the above without thinking about it.
Way too much to think about
I am 74 - My birthday is May 19th are all of the figures going to be changed because I am a year older.
Resting heart rate 60
Aerobic min heart rate 111.6
Aerobic max 128.8
Aenerobic min 128.8
AenerobicThreshold max 137.4
Max Vo2 min 137.4
Max Vo2 max 141.7
Lactic Threshold 142.56
