But nothing about these systems suggests that one is the "base", unless you happen to think that sprinting isn't real swimming because it's not painful enough or time-consuming enough. Hi Jazz
I just realized that I answered this post previously without first carefully reading it (sorry).
If you don't mind me quoting myself in another thread which pertains specifically to Base building...
The composition of your Base can include any sort of work (from low level endurance to anaerobic capacity sets). That is the first domain of discussion that Cyclists could sort out rapidly few years back. In other words, the Base is not exclusively made of low level endurance swimming.
That said though, what recent research shown, and it's only logical, is that if you want to build a big base, you're not going to achieve this by throwing mostly anaerobic component to it. That's why even though we recognize that the Base can include all sort of stuff, it will always be mostly made of aerobic component.
Let us remind ourselves that it would be very hard to go over 20min of anaerobic work day in day out. (for an elite sprinter, that would be around 20x100 at race pace). You do this Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and some day something bad will come out of this obsession for race pace training.
So in case this yields the question as to what is the Base exactly? Simply speaking, it is your ability to perform work. The more work you can perform, the more work you'll be able to perform, regardless of the composition of this work. Like I explained in a few earlier posts, Cyclists (who I believe have an edge, at least in their ability to precisely quantify the magnitude of your Base) now call this: Chronic (read weekly) Training Load.
But nothing about these systems suggests that one is the "base", unless you happen to think that sprinting isn't real swimming because it's not painful enough or time-consuming enough. Hi Jazz
I just realized that I answered this post previously without first carefully reading it (sorry).
If you don't mind me quoting myself in another thread which pertains specifically to Base building...
The composition of your Base can include any sort of work (from low level endurance to anaerobic capacity sets). That is the first domain of discussion that Cyclists could sort out rapidly few years back. In other words, the Base is not exclusively made of low level endurance swimming.
That said though, what recent research shown, and it's only logical, is that if you want to build a big base, you're not going to achieve this by throwing mostly anaerobic component to it. That's why even though we recognize that the Base can include all sort of stuff, it will always be mostly made of aerobic component.
Let us remind ourselves that it would be very hard to go over 20min of anaerobic work day in day out. (for an elite sprinter, that would be around 20x100 at race pace). You do this Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and some day something bad will come out of this obsession for race pace training.
So in case this yields the question as to what is the Base exactly? Simply speaking, it is your ability to perform work. The more work you can perform, the more work you'll be able to perform, regardless of the composition of this work. Like I explained in a few earlier posts, Cyclists (who I believe have an edge, at least in their ability to precisely quantify the magnitude of your Base) now call this: Chronic (read weekly) Training Load.
