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?
Re: my increase in DPS comment,I sometimes forget that freestylers may not be like breaststrokers.In a race as I get tired I try to increase my stroke rate to compensate,but in a workout I try to focus on DPs as a way to focus on form.Also if I do this in workout, when I do race I don't tend to slip water as much.If this doesn't work for free,my apologies.
Re: my increase in DPS comment,I sometimes forget that freestylers may not be like breaststrokers.In a race as I get tired I try to increase my stroke rate to compensate,but in a workout I try to focus on DPs as a way to focus on form.Also if I do this in workout, when I do race I don't tend to slip water as much.If this doesn't work for free,my apologies.
