In threads where training philosophy comes up, discussions of TRIMPS and TSS and other training models occasionally intrude. These models are not very well known, and even more poorly understood, so probably SolarEnergy, qbrain and I are just talking to each other and killing threads in those conversations. In any case, I figured I would present a brief overview of what it is that we're talking about when this terminology starts showing up.
Best case, this will introduce these models to the subset of swimmers (or coaches) who would be interested enough to use them, but didn't previously know enough to do so.
Plus, even if you're not the type to be interested in quantifying your training, it can be useful to think about workouts in this general framework.
And, at the very least, this might serve as a place to discuss some of the details without worrying about driving those other threads too far off-topic.
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For me, energy would increase based on the distance of the repeats and on the total distance of fly in a workout.
This doesn't make sense. If you are traveling the same distance in the same time with the same stroke, why would energy be different?
Fly is just causing you to go into more anaerobic debt the longer you swim it. With 50s you have time to catch up that with 100s you don't. So with 100s you get more pain for the same amount of energy as twice as many 50s. What a deal!
For me, energy would increase based on the distance of the repeats and on the total distance of fly in a workout.
This doesn't make sense. If you are traveling the same distance in the same time with the same stroke, why would energy be different?
Fly is just causing you to go into more anaerobic debt the longer you swim it. With 50s you have time to catch up that with 100s you don't. So with 100s you get more pain for the same amount of energy as twice as many 50s. What a deal!
