Anyone have experience swimming in meets on consecutive weekends? I've never done this myself, but am contemplating doing meets April 24-25 (Zones, SCY) and May 3 (SCM). Was planning to rest a week or so for Zones and then just keep resting. My main worry is that I'm usually pretty zonked for a few days after a two day meet. Is this a bad idea? Any advice?
My main motivation to go to the second meet is that I'm not sure I'll get another SCM meet in this year. There are no local meets, and right now I have family conflicts with travel meets.
Hi, Leslie. I did this last year--our Y 2-day meet, followed four days later by CZ. Most of my events, I did better at Zones, most likely because it's a better pool and not so hot as the temperature they keep it at Clarion U (the janitors seem to have control over the thermostat that not even the college coach can usurp.)
Anyhow, both meets I swam the 1000, 500, 200, 100, and 50 freestyles. I was 3 secs slower in the 500 at Zones, I think partly from accumulated fatigue.
I don't think that sprints would take quite so much a toll, especially if you make sure to restore all your nutrition, etc.
Maybe the weight lifting community could offer a word here, given that all out swim sprints probably have more to do with anaerobic conditioning.
To wit, if you do an all out dead lift on day 1, how long does it take your body to completely recover? I would imagine you would be fine in a couple days, assuming your body was used to dead lifts. But I don't know for sure. It would seem that whatever muscle fibers get torn in the process would have a chance to knit back even stronger with a week?
Hi, Leslie. I did this last year--our Y 2-day meet, followed four days later by CZ. Most of my events, I did better at Zones, most likely because it's a better pool and not so hot as the temperature they keep it at Clarion U (the janitors seem to have control over the thermostat that not even the college coach can usurp.)
Anyhow, both meets I swam the 1000, 500, 200, 100, and 50 freestyles. I was 3 secs slower in the 500 at Zones, I think partly from accumulated fatigue.
I don't think that sprints would take quite so much a toll, especially if you make sure to restore all your nutrition, etc.
Maybe the weight lifting community could offer a word here, given that all out swim sprints probably have more to do with anaerobic conditioning.
To wit, if you do an all out dead lift on day 1, how long does it take your body to completely recover? I would imagine you would be fine in a couple days, assuming your body was used to dead lifts. But I don't know for sure. It would seem that whatever muscle fibers get torn in the process would have a chance to knit back even stronger with a week?
