Can speed practice alone help long distance endurance?
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If I only practice to improve the speed in short distance, will it help increase the endurance needed for long distance? In other words, say I have trained for several months for (only) speed, could I, one day, suddenly find myself swimming long distance without feeling tired?
(Obviously the opposite is not true: simply being able to swim slow long distance doesn't help improve the speed.)
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All the comments here are really helpful! It's comforting and encouraging to me that quite a few think short distance speed trainings do play important part in developing endurance. Thanks for the story and link to the other forum discussion about real experiences, SolarEnergy. I am going to follow the suggestion of doing short distance with very short rests. That's a great idea.
As for the magic "pill", I'm afraid it will make me stupid, even if faster :shakeshead:
hmmmm..... i think most distance swimmers spend most of their time doing 25/50/100/200m based training. thats what 90% of the masters workouts i do consist of.
chaos, do you do the other 10% (long distance) all in OW, or some in pools?
All the comments here are really helpful! It's comforting and encouraging to me that quite a few think short distance speed trainings do play important part in developing endurance. Thanks for the story and link to the other forum discussion about real experiences, SolarEnergy. I am going to follow the suggestion of doing short distance with very short rests. That's a great idea.
As for the magic "pill", I'm afraid it will make me stupid, even if faster :shakeshead:
hmmmm..... i think most distance swimmers spend most of their time doing 25/50/100/200m based training. thats what 90% of the masters workouts i do consist of.
chaos, do you do the other 10% (long distance) all in OW, or some in pools?
