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!
-x
She was a great triathlete now that you mention it! While getting in top form for her half, she would do two swim workouts a week. Usually she would do just a total of 2,000 yards in each workout. Insofar as her running, I would say she was doing 45 miles per week. She ran 6 days a week. On her swim days, her run would be shorter (4-6 miles). The week of a race, she would only do one swim workout early on.
Two 2,000 yd workouts a week is like coming to the pool to be social. She was WAY biased to the running. The swim workouts might have been very therapudic for recovery, so in a sense it may be helpful.
Swimming is really unique to itself. I think most runners who try would agree. I don't think it helped Rocky in Rocky III.....Remember that fly?
She was a great triathlete now that you mention it! While getting in top form for her half, she would do two swim workouts a week. Usually she would do just a total of 2,000 yards in each workout. Insofar as her running, I would say she was doing 45 miles per week. She ran 6 days a week. On her swim days, her run would be shorter (4-6 miles). The week of a race, she would only do one swim workout early on.
Two 2,000 yd workouts a week is like coming to the pool to be social. She was WAY biased to the running. The swim workouts might have been very therapudic for recovery, so in a sense it may be helpful.
Swimming is really unique to itself. I think most runners who try would agree. I don't think it helped Rocky in Rocky III.....Remember that fly?
