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?
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This is a question/problem for all of my swimmers (age group and master's)!!
I have to say that as a coach, I give them sets that I know will push them mentally (maintaining technique) and physically (pushing the limits of their overall swimming). However, it's almost a catch 22...if you don't maintain your technique and overall stroke efficiency then you will not make the interval or you will not hit the goal times...
For me, I would like to see the swimmers hit their technique and miss the interval by :02 or so instead of throwing the technique and just making it on-time. Muscle memory is huge and if you start to get sloppy in your stroke you start to lose that precious entity.
At least that is my opinion...
This is a question/problem for all of my swimmers (age group and master's)!!
I have to say that as a coach, I give them sets that I know will push them mentally (maintaining technique) and physically (pushing the limits of their overall swimming). However, it's almost a catch 22...if you don't maintain your technique and overall stroke efficiency then you will not make the interval or you will not hit the goal times...
For me, I would like to see the swimmers hit their technique and miss the interval by :02 or so instead of throwing the technique and just making it on-time. Muscle memory is huge and if you start to get sloppy in your stroke you start to lose that precious entity.
At least that is my opinion...
