I have tried several different "routines" and feel pretty strongly that variety is very important.
My own belief is to try and build overall power in my major muscle groups doing non-swimming specific exercises (squats, dead lifts, etc.)...Currently I lift very hard cycling 4 different workouts (all are push/pull free weight/Olympic oriented) then take 3 days off between workouts....All done on non-speed/lactate swim days.
Because there is so little time between austin/Portland i'm going to train veery differently than in the past..no major build up of yardage and be broken down..lots of quality work in the pool (3x a week), hard lifting (2x a week), running stadiums (1x a week) & spinning (2x a week).
We'll see....nothing over a 200 in Portland.
I have tried several different "routines" and feel pretty strongly that variety is very important.
My own belief is to try and build overall power in my major muscle groups doing non-swimming specific exercises (squats, dead lifts, etc.)...Currently I lift very hard cycling 4 different workouts (all are push/pull free weight/Olympic oriented) then take 3 days off between workouts....All done on non-speed/lactate swim days.
Because there is so little time between austin/Portland i'm going to train veery differently than in the past..no major build up of yardage and be broken down..lots of quality work in the pool (3x a week), hard lifting (2x a week), running stadiums (1x a week) & spinning (2x a week).
We'll see....nothing over a 200 in Portland.
