Looking for a little motivational help or a solution. I am slowing down. Sometimes it's difficult to even get through a warmup. I only swim 3x a week, 4-5k. I can repeat 1:15's all day, 5 months ago I was repeating 1:05 on sets of hard 500's w/o issue. I don't understand. I have also developed quite the neck and upper back pain. Can't seen to solve that either but, it's keeping up at night now. I do speed work, i do distance. What do y'all think. :badday:
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The human body is a wondeful thing. It will tell you when it's in trouble. Right now your body is screaming at you: I need recovery AND rest.
I've been there. It's a week or two process to get out of. Try this
Week one: Keep your yardage the same, but your goal is recovery swimming. Add 10 seconds to your 100 base intervals and add 10 seconds to your swim time. If you are averaging 1:15s on 1:25, shoot for 1:25s on 1:35. Same yardage, recovery swimming to get the gunk outta your muscles.
Week two: cut the yardage to 50 to 60% of what you are doing. Do day 1 and 3 of your three day week with a good warm up and do short sets of short sprints (good effort, not necessarily AFAP), long rest. So maybe 8x50 on 2:00 trying to hold low 30s. On day 2, do another recovery day as the week before, but again, 50-60% of your normal yardage.
You need rest and recovery. And probably the full two weeks. You don't have to stop swimming, just take it easy. Give yourself a little break.
Report back in two weeks, okay?
Looking for a little motivational help or a solution. I am slowing down. Sometimes it's difficult to even get through a warmup. I only swim 3x a week, 4-5k. I can repeat 1:15's all day, 5 months ago I was repeating 1:05 on sets of hard 500's w/o issue. I don't understand. I have also developed quite the neck and upper back pain. Can't seen to solve that either but, it's keeping up at night now. I do speed work, i do distance. What do y'all think. :badday:
The human body is a wondeful thing. It will tell you when it's in trouble. Right now your body is screaming at you: I need recovery AND rest.
I've been there. It's a week or two process to get out of. Try this
Week one: Keep your yardage the same, but your goal is recovery swimming. Add 10 seconds to your 100 base intervals and add 10 seconds to your swim time. If you are averaging 1:15s on 1:25, shoot for 1:25s on 1:35. Same yardage, recovery swimming to get the gunk outta your muscles.
Week two: cut the yardage to 50 to 60% of what you are doing. Do day 1 and 3 of your three day week with a good warm up and do short sets of short sprints (good effort, not necessarily AFAP), long rest. So maybe 8x50 on 2:00 trying to hold low 30s. On day 2, do another recovery day as the week before, but again, 50-60% of your normal yardage.
You need rest and recovery. And probably the full two weeks. You don't have to stop swimming, just take it easy. Give yourself a little break.
Report back in two weeks, okay?
Looking for a little motivational help or a solution. I am slowing down. Sometimes it's difficult to even get through a warmup. I only swim 3x a week, 4-5k. I can repeat 1:15's all day, 5 months ago I was repeating 1:05 on sets of hard 500's w/o issue. I don't understand. I have also developed quite the neck and upper back pain. Can't seen to solve that either but, it's keeping up at night now. I do speed work, i do distance. What do y'all think. :badday:
