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.
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?
I don't know about sprints taking less of a toll ... Sprinting is freaking exhausting! And I wonder if sprinters recover as well as distance folks? After a hard two day meet, I often don't feel normal until Wed or so.
I've been trying to do hard speed work on multiple days in a row to get my body used to the feeling of a multi-day meet. Meet #2 is a Sunday, so I could be OK by then if I just float around the days in between.
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?
I don't know about sprints taking less of a toll ... Sprinting is freaking exhausting! And I wonder if sprinters recover as well as distance folks? After a hard two day meet, I often don't feel normal until Wed or so.
I've been trying to do hard speed work on multiple days in a row to get my body used to the feeling of a multi-day meet. Meet #2 is a Sunday, so I could be OK by then if I just float around the days in between.
