I’m gonna start getting timed at least once a week, to see how am doing, I wonder when is the best time to do so...
Basically you have 3 options
1) Before the actual practice, good dry land warm up moving your arms (without warming up in the pool), I found this is +1 sec every 50 from my current time.
2) After long/short warm up.
Short = 300-500 free and then just going for it
Long = lets say Im trying the 400IM
I would do: (just an example)
-400 inverse im (50 drill/50 drill)
-4x50 strong (1 of each)
-100 im strong
-4 or 8 x 75 k,d,s (im order)
-2 or 3 jumps
THEN…400 IM all out
3) After practice, after or before warming down, (I’m usually very tired, so I cant go all out anything over 100 meters)
-How often do you time youself/get timed?
-When? before/during/after practice?
Just recently (today to be exact) I've decided to have one workout a week where I focus on doing timed swims for various events and distances that I like to swim in a meet. I've decided to do this because I feel I lack the self-discipline to push myself beyond what I perceive to be 80% max effort in my workouts. I figure that if I timed myself with plenty of rest between timings then I'm more apt to push myself.
Here's what I observed today: I timed myself for 3 100yd freestyle swims with about 4:00 rest in between (I should probably rest more but I was pressed for time this afternoon). On my first swim I came in on a 1:03, the second was a 1:01 and the 3rd was a :58.5. I planned to do two more but ran out of time. These were from a push off the wall as our pool has no starting blocks and they frown on people diving in. Long story short I guess it took me a couple of "warm up" swims to get into a groove. Sad thing is, I was still about 6-7 seconds from what I can swim in a meet, so I probably still need more practice pushing myself in practice. Oh well.
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Just recently (today to be exact) I've decided to have one workout a week where I focus on doing timed swims for various events and distances that I like to swim in a meet. I've decided to do this because I feel I lack the self-discipline to push myself beyond what I perceive to be 80% max effort in my workouts. I figure that if I timed myself with plenty of rest between timings then I'm more apt to push myself.
Here's what I observed today: I timed myself for 3 100yd freestyle swims with about 4:00 rest in between (I should probably rest more but I was pressed for time this afternoon). On my first swim I came in on a 1:03, the second was a 1:01 and the 3rd was a :58.5. I planned to do two more but ran out of time. These were from a push off the wall as our pool has no starting blocks and they frown on people diving in. Long story short I guess it took me a couple of "warm up" swims to get into a groove. Sad thing is, I was still about 6-7 seconds from what I can swim in a meet, so I probably still need more practice pushing myself in practice. Oh well.
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