Does the way the muscles are used in cycling help with swimming? I feel it does. When pedaling the bike it makes me think of kicking in freestyle, especially 2 beat kicks (of course I don't mean I kick the way I pedal a bike).
Running has helped my swimming. It enables me to get an intensity and frequency of conditioning I otherwise would not have achieved with swimming alone, this is especially due to how much my shoulders can take.
I started running 43 days ago in preparation for a mandatory fitness test in September I do every year for my job. Consists of a 1.5 mile run, push-ups, sit-ups, and waist measurement. Never took the test too seriously in the past because it's very easy to pass. However, my coworkers are now aware of the competitive swimming I took up recently and I can't allow swimmers to look too shabby when it comes to fitness. So I'm basically committed to getting close to a perfect score on the run portion which would mean under 10 minutes even though I never really enjoyed, or was good at running. I did 11:00 last year with about 15-20 runs of preparation.
This year I approached the training with more effort and intensity hoping to get a total of 30-35 runs in before September's test. Thus far I have done 12 runs. I started out only running 400M (1/4 mi) each workout the first week then gradually built up to 2 miles such as yesterday's workout below:
400M X 8 and rest 60 seconds between, i.e.
1:28.40 (rest 59.60)
1:34.25 (rest 59.30)
1:32.86 (rest 59.81)
1:34.03 (rest 59.64)
1:34.91 (rest 1:00.13)
1:38.27 (rest 1:00.87)
1:44.81 (rest 59.12)
1:47.92
Running has helped my swimming. It enables me to get an intensity and frequency of conditioning I otherwise would not have achieved with swimming alone, this is especially due to how much my shoulders can take.
I started running 43 days ago in preparation for a mandatory fitness test in September I do every year for my job. Consists of a 1.5 mile run, push-ups, sit-ups, and waist measurement. Never took the test too seriously in the past because it's very easy to pass. However, my coworkers are now aware of the competitive swimming I took up recently and I can't allow swimmers to look too shabby when it comes to fitness. So I'm basically committed to getting close to a perfect score on the run portion which would mean under 10 minutes even though I never really enjoyed, or was good at running. I did 11:00 last year with about 15-20 runs of preparation.
This year I approached the training with more effort and intensity hoping to get a total of 30-35 runs in before September's test. Thus far I have done 12 runs. I started out only running 400M (1/4 mi) each workout the first week then gradually built up to 2 miles such as yesterday's workout below:
400M X 8 and rest 60 seconds between, i.e.
1:28.40 (rest 59.60)
1:34.25 (rest 59.30)
1:32.86 (rest 59.81)
1:34.03 (rest 59.64)
1:34.91 (rest 1:00.13)
1:38.27 (rest 1:00.87)
1:44.81 (rest 59.12)
1:47.92
