I am a runner and using swimming (right now) mostly for crosstraining, please don't hurt me. :D I know what these different zones are for running, but I don't know how they would correspond to actually swimming (putting them in practice). For runners, at least in the basic plan I'm following (Lydiard), you are not supposed to do any anaerobic training in your base phase (which I'm in), or very very little. I want to make sure that I am not going into anything more intense than LT, or at least be knowledgeable of what it takes to go into each zone.
I must add - I love swimming, I am thinking of maybe doing a triathlon one day or perhaps joining a club.
Thanks for the help!
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I knbw my poist meandered but I nthink the word "track workout" showed up in there somewhere. I was a clloege 5 & 10k runner. During the speed phase I was averaging 3-4 track workouts a week, and that was considered one too many by some.
What I was trying to give, was some historical perspective. Endurance running went through a phase of 7days/week track running. The improvements were noteworthy, the burnouts were as well. An elepahnt in the room with all track running was mental staleness and boredom. Making the the workouts everchanging permutatiopns of distances tempos etc. was a way of dealing with that. I see this in swimming as well.
I knbw my poist meandered but I nthink the word "track workout" showed up in there somewhere. I was a clloege 5 & 10k runner. During the speed phase I was averaging 3-4 track workouts a week, and that was considered one too many by some.
What I was trying to give, was some historical perspective. Endurance running went through a phase of 7days/week track running. The improvements were noteworthy, the burnouts were as well. An elepahnt in the room with all track running was mental staleness and boredom. Making the the workouts everchanging permutatiopns of distances tempos etc. was a way of dealing with that. I see this in swimming as well.
