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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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,
Highly imprecise, but on the 100 fly to 200 fly his pace drops off 12% per 100 while on the 100 free to 200 free his pace drops off 8%. However some of that can be attributed to the start, so the real numbers are more like 4.9% and 9.1%. If you use those numbers and extrapilate out to the 1500 free (assume a 5% drop off every time the distance doubles) then Phelps is at 14:55 in the 1500. I think that is about right. Using the same math but with 9.1% you get a 18:07 in the 1500 fly...about what you predicted.
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,
Highly imprecise, but on the 100 fly to 200 fly his pace drops off 12% per 100 while on the 100 free to 200 free his pace drops off 8%. However some of that can be attributed to the start, so the real numbers are more like 4.9% and 9.1%. If you use those numbers and extrapilate out to the 1500 free (assume a 5% drop off every time the distance doubles) then Phelps is at 14:55 in the 1500. I think that is about right. Using the same math but with 9.1% you get a 18:07 in the 1500 fly...about what you predicted.
