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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I haven't seen footage of pros falling apart at the end of their race. They're in control
Must take alot of work to get like that A tough training set is more difficult than a tough swim event.
Their form falls apart too. Euh well. Note that if I could get their worst form I'd be happy with it ;-)
The longest butterfly event you could see Phelps committing to would be the 200 right? Just at varsity level, I've often seen 200 specialists being thrown in 1500 butterfly time trial. Phelps would probably do under 18min on this sort of test, but trust me, his stroke at the end would not look like that of the beginning of the set.
And besides, all events found on youtube involving those pros are done with a full taper.
I haven't seen footage of pros falling apart at the end of their race. They're in control
Must take alot of work to get like that A tough training set is more difficult than a tough swim event.
Their form falls apart too. Euh well. Note that if I could get their worst form I'd be happy with it ;-)
The longest butterfly event you could see Phelps committing to would be the 200 right? Just at varsity level, I've often seen 200 specialists being thrown in 1500 butterfly time trial. Phelps would probably do under 18min on this sort of test, but trust me, his stroke at the end would not look like that of the beginning of the set.
And besides, all events found on youtube involving those pros are done with a full taper.
