As to drylands, I've also grown fond of your med ball game and med ball slamming. Though a partner would help! What other drylands do you recommend? Have you done or considered TRX?
Fort, we'll have to get together again and do that med ball game again soon.
Setting a goal - training for it from Jan 2009 - May 2010.
This is so interesting to me as a coach and as a swimmer.
As a coach, trying to even introduce this type or concept of specific "race effort training" to a group of masters swimmers who are mainly interested in 4,000 yards in an hour... pretty close to impossible.
It constantly blows me away how much athletes love junk yardage training and unfortunately, GoTheDistance has only made things more troublesome in this area.
This is something I have struggled with as a former junk yardage swimmer. My former team is so into this and it did wonders for my GTD. They are now up to 10,000 yards in 2 hours! My new team believes quality over quantity. I constantly have to remind myself that my times are getting faster with the new team and junk yardage isn't worth it. I like Rich's idea of the race effort training. We do this a lot (did it today in fact).
As to drylands, I've also grown fond of your med ball game and med ball slamming. Though a partner would help! What other drylands do you recommend? Have you done or considered TRX?
Fort, we'll have to get together again and do that med ball game again soon.
Setting a goal - training for it from Jan 2009 - May 2010.
This is so interesting to me as a coach and as a swimmer.
As a coach, trying to even introduce this type or concept of specific "race effort training" to a group of masters swimmers who are mainly interested in 4,000 yards in an hour... pretty close to impossible.
It constantly blows me away how much athletes love junk yardage training and unfortunately, GoTheDistance has only made things more troublesome in this area.
This is something I have struggled with as a former junk yardage swimmer. My former team is so into this and it did wonders for my GTD. They are now up to 10,000 yards in 2 hours! My new team believes quality over quantity. I constantly have to remind myself that my times are getting faster with the new team and junk yardage isn't worth it. I like Rich's idea of the race effort training. We do this a lot (did it today in fact).
