On frequent occasions, I feel my form fall apart on tougher sets, but I finish regardless of my form. I feel it is more important to force my body to undergo the physiological adaptation resulting from these "near death" sets than to worry about maintaining form.
As long as I imprint the correct form in less strenuous sets I feel it is OK to gut tougher sets out when my form is falling apart. Many times I finish my workout with some shorter repeats to finish and leave the pool with the correct form imprinted in my mind.
This post is as a result of one of today's sets where I simply did not want to "give up" and switch from fly to free. I felt it was important to finish it the way I intended to give me a metal boost that I can do it as well as force the body to adapt. Is this mentality towards training wrong?
Ideally, we'd keep up our form as our intensity increases. I, for one, don't live in Utopia (though my hometown approximates it) and frequently feel my stroke and body collapse many times in workouts. I think the trick is to try to:
delay the onset of technique collapse as much as you can as your intensity increases,
lengthen the time in subsequent workouts at which technique/body collapse occurs
Ideally, we'd keep up our form as our intensity increases. I, for one, don't live in Utopia (though my hometown approximates it) and frequently feel my stroke and body collapse many times in workouts. I think the trick is to try to:
delay the onset of technique collapse as much as you can as your intensity increases,
lengthen the time in subsequent workouts at which technique/body collapse occurs
