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?
I say form should almost always take precedence.When you are gutting out the end of a race you need to have trained to keep your form then.That said I think there can be a mental benefit from pushing yourself to the ragged edge.I think the key is just how ragged the edge is.I'd say as your fatigue increases try to increase your DPS or in some other way focus on something to hold it together.
I say form should almost always take precedence.When you are gutting out the end of a race you need to have trained to keep your form then.That said I think there can be a mental benefit from pushing yourself to the ragged edge.I think the key is just how ragged the edge is.I'd say as your fatigue increases try to increase your DPS or in some other way focus on something to hold it together.
