This past weekend I did practice with the age groupers. 2 sets we did back to back were working on lung control. First set consisted of 16x25's with fins. First 8 were on 1:30 last 8 on 2. Not so bad huh? Here is the kicker. Before swimming the 25 (sprint no breath) you first went under water and held breath for 15 seconds then when time was up coach banged on gutter and u would take off and sprint the 25 no breath. There was no breath in between 15 seconds under water to when u pushed off either.
So, the first 4x25's u were under for 15, the next 4 u were under for 30 seconds, the next 4 under water for 45 seconds and last 4 where under for a minute. I was able to make the 15 and 30 ones and I made one of each in the 45 and minute. I was amazed that some of the kids actually made all of them!
After that set, we followed up with 20x25's on 30. This was not that big a deal but we had to get out at each end and dive in, which got tiresome near the end.
Ive never been a big fan of lung busters or anything, kinda like to breath!
When we did stuff like this in high school it was always a macho sort of thing -- if you could make it, you were tough. In other words, it was done more for the psychological benefit, the theory being that in a big race you "know" you don't have to breathe.
Although I used to be able to hold my breath as well as anyone on my team back in the day, I don't find this sort of thing to be much fun anymore.
When we did stuff like this in high school it was always a macho sort of thing -- if you could make it, you were tough. In other words, it was done more for the psychological benefit, the theory being that in a big race you "know" you don't have to breathe.
Although I used to be able to hold my breath as well as anyone on my team back in the day, I don't find this sort of thing to be much fun anymore.
