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?
We learn at WCM to keep good form (as long as possible), and to try to keep the stroke counts within 2 of your optimum number.
Example: If your stroke count is 14 per lap (free) and you're doing a sprint set, it should ideally stay at 14, but 16 is the highest number it should probably be. Our sets are designed, by Kerry, to practice this. He constantly hammers DPS and technique.
We will often do load sets. We'll load up our legs, or our whole bodies, in a really hard set, and THEN we'll do stroke stuff. That way our stroke isn't horrible near the end- we're tired, but the stroke remains intact even though we're fatigued.
Works for us :agree:
We learn at WCM to keep good form (as long as possible), and to try to keep the stroke counts within 2 of your optimum number.
Example: If your stroke count is 14 per lap (free) and you're doing a sprint set, it should ideally stay at 14, but 16 is the highest number it should probably be. Our sets are designed, by Kerry, to practice this. He constantly hammers DPS and technique.
We will often do load sets. We'll load up our legs, or our whole bodies, in a really hard set, and THEN we'll do stroke stuff. That way our stroke isn't horrible near the end- we're tired, but the stroke remains intact even though we're fatigued.
Works for us :agree:
