Blog Talk
Blog Talk is a thread to recoginize, discuss, share, stuff happening in the USMS blogs, here on the general forums. Please point out certain sets, certain swims, & meet performances. Rather than have the blogs languish in obscurity.
Here's a few blogs if you're interested in:
sprinting on low yardage check out The Jazz Hands Brass Band's Fast-Twitch Freak-Out by Jazz Hands
a fast chatty female who often trains alone there's the
The FAF AFAP Digest by The Fortress
a middle distance workhorse, Masters's swimming mag's cover boy, who has a true work ethic and amazing swims in workout there's
Chris' training journal and thoughts by Chris Stevenson
an excellent mid distance traveling exec there's
Of Swimming Bondage by pwbrundage
looks like there's 59 blogs
let's talk about em
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keep adding threads, it's a handy resourse where you can look back at previous workouts.
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Ande--
My advice: kick the first 100 around a 1:14, pull the next on around 1:02; then integrate kicking and swimming and try to hold 58's for the final two 100s!
Actually, and I feel presumptuous to even offer you advice, but I think you are so in tune with your body and your lactate threshold that you should forget splitting at all and swim by feel. Maybe go out just a wee bit slower than your adrenaline is telling you to, then after a 100 or so, swim hard enough to the point of feeling just below the lactate threshhold. Try to stay here until the last 100 or so, then build up till you touch the wall in full blown wimpering mode, knowing you gave it everything you've got!
Then write a country music song about the experience, changing the 400 m freestyle to a "beautiful little darling that was awful hard to stay up with and left you crying at the end."
No pain, no country music song.
Today I did a lifetime best on a 100 LCM kick with out a board
went 1:13
Tomorrow is the Sr Cir Meet,
400 fr is my first event, any suggestions on how to split it?
Ande
Ande,
I'm thinking you should be knocking out something right under 4:20, maybe given your speed and the impressive amount of distance work you've been doing. I'd recommend 1:02+, 1:05-, 1:06-, 1:05+ (e.g., 2:08, 2:12). I actually think you can go faster than that if you're rested ... take that first 100 real easy though as even us naturally slow-twitched guys find our speed sometimes too fast going out; with your natural speed, I think you'll need to mentally throttle back more to not go out too fast.
Tomorrow is the Sr Cir Meet,
400 fr is my first event, any suggestions on how to split it?
Ande
Hi Ande,
Jim's method seems a bit unorthodox, but it's very edgy.
Why don't you go after the 100 free record ...and then swim down the remaining portion. That's a bit out of the box as well.
Or better yet, do the whole race butterfly ala Mr. Baker...or maybe backstroke? :)
There's also happens to be a fellow on the forum who offers excellent swimming advise. Tip number 106
www.usms.org/.../blog.php
This comment from Chris is very informative if you regularly make use of test sets, and want some guidelines training for a 200.
very impressed with this Chris Stevenson workout
9-16-09 Gotta Love Lactic Acid
5 x 200 free on 2:40
-- 2:01/2:01/2:00/2:01/1:59
Hypoxic Hard Kick (800+150/3100)
8 x 100 on 2:00: 75 HARD kick, 25 easy swim-- did these backstroke SDKs, 17 kicks off each wall
-- after a couple 45s -- still a little tired from the free -- I held 44s on the rest, except I went 42-high on the last one.
Chris you are tough with a capital "T"
and for the trials and tribulations of a chubby middle aged housewife training for long distance swims, see
forums.usms.org/blog.php
My blog really only exists to make Jim's look better, but it's still pretty exciting!!
Amanda,
If you are chubby, then I am morbidly obese. You are very far far far far from chubby!
