Ok, 200 posts later, I think it is time for more experimentation and less postulation. I realized that I'm not done just yet.
Just had a very exciting discussion in private.
Here's my proposal. All non free style specialists, that have an interest at really improving the 200, consider yourself as sprint/mid distance swimmers. Coach on the clip is kind of positive on that. 200/400, pretty much the same animals.
With Master swimmers, a 200 breaststroke is taking what... 2:45 maybe? 2:50? Well that is a full 50sec at max o2 peak (max hr). Requires a solid aerobic capacity development program. Not even talking about 400/300/200/100/50 like proposed for the 100 specialists, but rather about real vo2max sets, with all the progressive overload that comes before during the Base build up.
It's not the distance that places an event in this or that category, it's the time it'll take you to complete the event.
Now, no more physiology hard core talk, unless someone wants to continue challenging the concepts that were brought forward so far. If anyone wants to try and propose aerobic capacity development sets, be my guess.
Ok, 200 posts later, I think it is time for more experimentation and less postulation. I realized that I'm not done just yet.
Just had a very exciting discussion in private.
Here's my proposal. All non free style specialists, that have an interest at really improving the 200, consider yourself as sprint/mid distance swimmers. Coach on the clip is kind of positive on that. 200/400, pretty much the same animals.
With Master swimmers, a 200 breaststroke is taking what... 2:45 maybe? 2:50? Well that is a full 50sec at max o2 peak (max hr). Requires a solid aerobic capacity development program. Not even talking about 400/300/200/100/50 like proposed for the 100 specialists, but rather about real vo2max sets, with all the progressive overload that comes before during the Base build up.
It's not the distance that places an event in this or that category, it's the time it'll take you to complete the event.
Now, no more physiology hard core talk, unless someone wants to continue challenging the concepts that were brought forward so far. If anyone wants to try and propose aerobic capacity development sets, be my guess.
