Are days off sufficient recovery when swimming 3days/week?
Former Member
The club I swim with and help coach only swims three days a week. As I read the literature on daily and season planning the need for rest between high intensity workouts mostly deals with two workouts a day swimmers. If you have a day off between any two workouts does that give you enough recovery time such that you can you put in high intensity sets every workout?
Likewise in season planning you often see a few weeks of hard training and then a week of recovery training. Do three day a week swimmers actually need a recovery week or do they not get sufficiently broken down to need one?
On a slightly different topic, do people find it is more difficult to carry technique progress forward when only swimming every other day? Because I have a long drive to the pool I've been swimming longer workouts every other day and I'm getting rather frustrated with my lack of progress with butterfly. I improve through the course of a workout but then when I come back two days later I seem to be back at square one.
Lindsay,
What is your all out 25 and 50 fly (with split) from a push when completely fresh? This is a good benchmark for evaluating form since you can only be so fast with lousy form in the 25 and with good form you should never rig up on the second 25.
If these times are good, then you need to work up your fly volume. What is your fly volume per workout? For starters it should be worked up to 300-500 yds per workout.
Lindsay,
What is your all out 25 and 50 fly (with split) from a push when completely fresh? This is a good benchmark for evaluating form since you can only be so fast with lousy form in the 25 and with good form you should never rig up on the second 25.
If these times are good, then you need to work up your fly volume. What is your fly volume per workout? For starters it should be worked up to 300-500 yds per workout.
