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 don't believe this business of "ingraining bad form" into muscle memory unless you spend most of your practice time swimming with poor form.
My sentiments exactly. RTodd mentioned:
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 think it depends a lot on how ingrained a good stroke is. If you have a good stroke gutting out a hard set probably won't hurt. I, however, have a horrible butterfly. It would do me no good to try and "hold it together". I'd either reinforce bad habits or hurt myself.
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I don't believe this business of "ingraining bad form" into muscle memory unless you spend most of your practice time swimming with poor form.
My sentiments exactly. RTodd mentioned:
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 think it depends a lot on how ingrained a good stroke is. If you have a good stroke gutting out a hard set probably won't hurt. I, however, have a horrible butterfly. It would do me no good to try and "hold it together". I'd either reinforce bad habits or hurt myself.
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