I have heard that some Masters coaches are more interested in general fitness than speed.What is your experience? Do you feel that your coach prepares you to swim 50s and 100s?Is sprinting a regular part of practice at least once a week and if so do you do it as a main set or as an add on at the end?Do you do lactic acid sets?How much do you work on starts and turns?
My coach of the last few years left - and it was a sad day for me. He understood sprinting and lactic production sets.
Every Friday the focus of the workout was lactic production. We repeated a 3 week cycle as follows:
Week1:
12 x 50 on 2:00 best effort on every one
Week2:
6 x 100 on 4:00 best effort.....
Week3:
100 free on 4:00 best effort
2 x 50 free on 2:00 best effort
4 x 25 free on 1:00 best effort
(repeat one time)
These sets will hurt and you will likely die midway through. But you will get faster and your body will adapt to the lactic buildup.
Thanks to everyone for the feedback on sprint times/distance.
We are gearing up for a big meet in 10 days. I am coaching this Thursday (the day after tomorrow). Would it be a good idea to give the Week 3 set for people, or is this too close to the meet?
And are sprints of free good for helping people who are sprinting stroke to get ready, or should I throw in an option of stroke sprints?
Where I swim (different team), we have been doing regular practices, then going to the blocks and doing 4 x 50 sprints for every practice the last 3 or 4 practices. Yah. I do not like to sprint!
My coach of the last few years left - and it was a sad day for me. He understood sprinting and lactic production sets.
Every Friday the focus of the workout was lactic production. We repeated a 3 week cycle as follows:
Week1:
12 x 50 on 2:00 best effort on every one
Week2:
6 x 100 on 4:00 best effort.....
Week3:
100 free on 4:00 best effort
2 x 50 free on 2:00 best effort
4 x 25 free on 1:00 best effort
(repeat one time)
These sets will hurt and you will likely die midway through. But you will get faster and your body will adapt to the lactic buildup.
Thanks to everyone for the feedback on sprint times/distance.
We are gearing up for a big meet in 10 days. I am coaching this Thursday (the day after tomorrow). Would it be a good idea to give the Week 3 set for people, or is this too close to the meet?
And are sprints of free good for helping people who are sprinting stroke to get ready, or should I throw in an option of stroke sprints?
Where I swim (different team), we have been doing regular practices, then going to the blocks and doing 4 x 50 sprints for every practice the last 3 or 4 practices. Yah. I do not like to sprint!
