I was reading up on training, and I came across a training methodology that goes like this.
Take your target event, for me the 200 free. Training speeds are dictated by your times two distances lower, for me the 50 and the 100, and two distances higher, 400/500 and the 800/1000. Warm up and cool down fall outside of this.
Compared to traditional training, this would be low yardage, high rest for most people.
Has anyone played around with this? Using my 100 split from my 1000 as my endurance pace would be much faster than what I am currently doing.
I like the concept because it gives so much guidance for training efforts, and retesting the levels is trivial.
That's it, I don't have much more detail than that. I can't find the article I read this in, but apparently this is a common training method for track.
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I am not sure if I'd use T1000 as a basis for establishing threshold swim pace. I might favor the good old Critical Swim Speed concept which has been tested quite a lot over years www.swimsmooth.com/training.html (locate *Lactate Threshold, Threshold and CSS* in the middle, there's even a handy calculator).
That being said, for a sprinter that doesn't matter very much. T1000 is still within the Threshold spectrum.
Now, as for your suggestion to increase rest time for sprint workouts :applaud: :applaud: :applaud:
If there's one thing with which master swimmer's coaches in general tend to have a lot of difficulty with, it's with Work/Rest calibration for sprint workouts. They never give you enough time to properly rest, and very often, what they which would be a sprint set turns out to be an other Vo2Max or Threshold set due to lack of rest.
I am not sure if I'd use T1000 as a basis for establishing threshold swim pace. I might favor the good old Critical Swim Speed concept which has been tested quite a lot over years www.swimsmooth.com/training.html (locate *Lactate Threshold, Threshold and CSS* in the middle, there's even a handy calculator).
That being said, for a sprinter that doesn't matter very much. T1000 is still within the Threshold spectrum.
Now, as for your suggestion to increase rest time for sprint workouts :applaud: :applaud: :applaud:
If there's one thing with which master swimmer's coaches in general tend to have a lot of difficulty with, it's with Work/Rest calibration for sprint workouts. They never give you enough time to properly rest, and very often, what they which would be a sprint set turns out to be an other Vo2Max or Threshold set due to lack of rest.
