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 think the two bracketing races give upper and lower limits for training speeds on most sets. Target race pace would be included.
Yes, Chris is right. The 5 timed swims just setup 5 goal times for practice.
I didn't understand it either. Can you explain it by using examples? what the set what be, the interval, and what time you should go? thanks
I am going to make up some times for easy math.
T50: 25
T100: 58
Target 200: 1:56 (split 28, 29.5, 29.5, 29)
T200: 2:00 (1:00)
T400: 4:40 (1:10)
T800: 9:52 (1:14)
Example sets
10x100s on 1:30 hold T800
10x100s on 2:00 hold T400
10x100s on 5:00 hold T200
10x50s on 1:00 hold 29 to touch or 29.5 to feet (race pace)
10x25s on 1:00 hold sub 12 to touch
Obviously, I am not going to be writing an interesting book of workouts any time soon.
Now, I have no idea how to combine these levels together into intelligent workouts and an intelligent season. I am really still kicking this idea around in my head and since competitive swim training theory isn't a popular topic at dinner parties, I dumped out some poorly formed thought here to see what kind of feedback I would get.
I think the two bracketing races give upper and lower limits for training speeds on most sets. Target race pace would be included.
Yes, Chris is right. The 5 timed swims just setup 5 goal times for practice.
I didn't understand it either. Can you explain it by using examples? what the set what be, the interval, and what time you should go? thanks
I am going to make up some times for easy math.
T50: 25
T100: 58
Target 200: 1:56 (split 28, 29.5, 29.5, 29)
T200: 2:00 (1:00)
T400: 4:40 (1:10)
T800: 9:52 (1:14)
Example sets
10x100s on 1:30 hold T800
10x100s on 2:00 hold T400
10x100s on 5:00 hold T200
10x50s on 1:00 hold 29 to touch or 29.5 to feet (race pace)
10x25s on 1:00 hold sub 12 to touch
Obviously, I am not going to be writing an interesting book of workouts any time soon.
Now, I have no idea how to combine these levels together into intelligent workouts and an intelligent season. I am really still kicking this idea around in my head and since competitive swim training theory isn't a popular topic at dinner parties, I dumped out some poorly formed thought here to see what kind of feedback I would get.
