Here's a proposal for you guys.
Aerobic/anaerobic balance = Log(T1/T2) / Log(D1/D2)
Where T1 and T2 represent two different personal bests over two distances, D1 and D2.
Compute it for yourself. Compute it for your idols whoever they are. Then compare. That tells you about your Aerobic/anaerobic balance, thus instructing you about your need for more aerobic vs anaerobic work.
What about that?
SE:
OK, so I did this several ways:
100/200 back = 1.12
50/200 back = 1.10
50/100 back = 1.08
50/100 free ≈ 1.17
50/500 free ≈ 1.09
So what does this suggest to you? I'm not immediately gaining any significant insight. It it that I should be shooting for a ratio of 1.0, and if so I should be doing slightly more speed work to lower the ratio? -OR- is it that my longer swims are slightly better so I should focus a little more on that?
I'm not sure that I have any swimming "idols." Ryosuke Irie has a beautiful backstroke and is proof that it is possible to compensate for smaller stature with an excellent stroke. Laurie Manaudou is proof that it is possible to swim distance events competitively with a high turnover, which means a lot to me because every since I was a young age group swimmer my stroke count has been high in comparison to my competitors. Only in the past few years have I seen coaches that I respect acknowledging that a high stroke count is not necessarily a bad thing. I don't have data to compute the SE-ratio for Irie or Manaudou.
Here's a proposal for you guys.
Aerobic/anaerobic balance = Log(T1/T2) / Log(D1/D2)
Where T1 and T2 represent two different personal bests over two distances, D1 and D2.
Compute it for yourself. Compute it for your idols whoever they are. Then compare. That tells you about your Aerobic/anaerobic balance, thus instructing you about your need for more aerobic vs anaerobic work.
What about that?
SE:
OK, so I did this several ways:
100/200 back = 1.12
50/200 back = 1.10
50/100 back = 1.08
50/100 free ≈ 1.17
50/500 free ≈ 1.09
So what does this suggest to you? I'm not immediately gaining any significant insight. It it that I should be shooting for a ratio of 1.0, and if so I should be doing slightly more speed work to lower the ratio? -OR- is it that my longer swims are slightly better so I should focus a little more on that?
I'm not sure that I have any swimming "idols." Ryosuke Irie has a beautiful backstroke and is proof that it is possible to compensate for smaller stature with an excellent stroke. Laurie Manaudou is proof that it is possible to swim distance events competitively with a high turnover, which means a lot to me because every since I was a young age group swimmer my stroke count has been high in comparison to my competitors. Only in the past few years have I seen coaches that I respect acknowledging that a high stroke count is not necessarily a bad thing. I don't have data to compute the SE-ratio for Irie or Manaudou.
