This definitely rings true, though I never thought of it in terms of time before. In my experience, more than 10 minutes of anaerobic swimming per day is not sustainable for more than a week or two. Et voila.
This now yields a question for Fortress: Can you really manage to perform more than the half of every of your workout targeting anaerobic capacity?
A typical workout is made of
- A warm up (mostly aerobic)
- Technical work (very often mostly aerobic)
- Race pace set: say.... 16x100, 1 slow 1 ALL OUT (that's 50/50)
- Cool down (mostly aerobic)
My point really is that even the biggest proponents of race pace training will have a lot of difficulty bringing their Anaerobic/Aerobic ratio to 50/50 without dying real soon after the start of the season.
And those (like me) who fear getting into the hurt box (working on 100m repeats) and stick to reps of 25 and 50 won't develop their anaerobic capacity to its full extent. And that is not to mention this 35% of aerobic capacity contribution to the 100m, which involves developing MaxO2Peak. In other words, the 400/200/100 are all interrelated.
Anyway... my :2cents:
This definitely rings true, though I never thought of it in terms of time before. In my experience, more than 10 minutes of anaerobic swimming per day is not sustainable for more than a week or two. Et voila.
This now yields a question for Fortress: Can you really manage to perform more than the half of every of your workout targeting anaerobic capacity?
A typical workout is made of
- A warm up (mostly aerobic)
- Technical work (very often mostly aerobic)
- Race pace set: say.... 16x100, 1 slow 1 ALL OUT (that's 50/50)
- Cool down (mostly aerobic)
My point really is that even the biggest proponents of race pace training will have a lot of difficulty bringing their Anaerobic/Aerobic ratio to 50/50 without dying real soon after the start of the season.
And those (like me) who fear getting into the hurt box (working on 100m repeats) and stick to reps of 25 and 50 won't develop their anaerobic capacity to its full extent. And that is not to mention this 35% of aerobic capacity contribution to the 100m, which involves developing MaxO2Peak. In other words, the 400/200/100 are all interrelated.
Anyway... my :2cents:
