Program Survey

The link is broken? www.floswimming.org/.../74330-the-nitro-whistle-set I got really excited when I first heard this set, because I thought it was going to be 25s straight through. Increasing intervals is actually a great workout design that I never see coaches use. It helps keep the fatigue away and the intensity high. I think coaches want to seem tough, so they cut down intervals instead. That makes no sense to me. You're getting more tired, you need more rest for the same intensity. But swimmers too often care about feeling tired instead of actually becoming faster. Lame. That was really an unrelated rant, because this set is fairly conventional in its set-up, it just looks weird from the outside. The swimmers will basically hold a slow aerobic pace close to their top effort over whatever the total time of the set is. It's just like a 10x100 on the 1:05 or whatever with extra hand-waving.

The link is broken? www.floswimming.org/.../74330-the-nitro-whistle-set I got really excited when I first heard this set, because I thought it was going to be 25s straight through. Increasing intervals is actually a great workout design that I never see coaches use. It helps keep the fatigue away and the intensity high. I think coaches want to seem tough, so they cut down intervals instead. That makes no sense to me. You're getting more tired, you need more rest for the same intensity. But swimmers too often care about feeling tired instead of actually becoming faster. Lame. That was really an unrelated rant, because this set is fairly conventional in its set-up, it just looks weird from the outside. The swimmers will basically hold a slow aerobic pace close to their top effort over whatever the total time of the set is. It's just like a 10x100 on the 1:05 or whatever with extra hand-waving.