I don't know about SVDL as the role model either, frankly. Her workouts don't represent what most elite masters do; she's just extraordinarily talented. Most are working out way more than 3x a week to achieve their results. I think Chris Stevenson is more typical. Plus, I would be unhappy only working out 3x a week. I can do "less is more" in the pool, but 4 days of sitting around doing nothing? No thanks. Don't want to sacrifice fitness and I like cross training.
Disagree Fort:
- Susan trains like at least a dozen others including myself. If you swam her workouts 3x a week you wouldn't be able to swim "hard" with any decent speed because you would be so wasted. Remember what Rich A said, masters swimmers swim to fast when they swim slow and to slow when they swim fast. A 40+ year old is going to be challenged getting more than 3 days week of really fast workouts in.
- None of us takes 4 days off out of 7, rather in my case its typically alternating swim/lift-cross train day, recovery day, rest day. If I feel really strong i might run the cycle out to 4 or 5 days in a row before i take a rest day...everything is dictated by how I feel...no wasted time in training.
I don't know about SVDL as the role model either, frankly. Her workouts don't represent what most elite masters do; she's just extraordinarily talented. Most are working out way more than 3x a week to achieve their results. I think Chris Stevenson is more typical. Plus, I would be unhappy only working out 3x a week. I can do "less is more" in the pool, but 4 days of sitting around doing nothing? No thanks. Don't want to sacrifice fitness and I like cross training.
Disagree Fort:
- Susan trains like at least a dozen others including myself. If you swam her workouts 3x a week you wouldn't be able to swim "hard" with any decent speed because you would be so wasted. Remember what Rich A said, masters swimmers swim to fast when they swim slow and to slow when they swim fast. A 40+ year old is going to be challenged getting more than 3 days week of really fast workouts in.
- None of us takes 4 days off out of 7, rather in my case its typically alternating swim/lift-cross train day, recovery day, rest day. If I feel really strong i might run the cycle out to 4 or 5 days in a row before i take a rest day...everything is dictated by how I feel...no wasted time in training.
