What Are Your 2021 Swimming Goals?

So it depends upon the time of year. Just was finishing up another base building phase. I was doing about 30k a week for about 4 weeks there, swimming every day. Developed a smidgen of "swimmer's shoulder" in my left shoulder, so I have been doing A LOT of kicking the past two weeks, and probably will continue kicking for the foreseeable future (saw doc today, no issues, just needs some rest). But during my aerobic phase I was doing mostly longer aerobic stuff, a dash of speed here and there, and ALWAYS some sort of quality speed set on Saturdays. When I have mended, I will be transitioning to speed/pace work most days, and drop down to 3-4k per workout (down from 4.5-6k before). Also was following this schedule pretty regularly from September through mid-November: Monday: Long Aerobic (6k ish) Tuesday: I.M. or Recovery (4-5k) Wednesday: Speed work (3.5-5k) Thursday: I.M. or Recovery, whichever I need more and depending on what I did Tuesday (4-5k) Friday: wildcard, maybe buckets, maybe speed work, maybe just drilling (2.5-4.5k) Saturday: quality and speed diving off blocks (3-4k) Sunday: OFF or Long Easy Aerobic (0-4k) Thanks! Super helpful. i too get a twinge-y left shoulder when i bump up the yardage too much. Currently swimming SCM and essentially doing this although days vary based on my call schedule. mon- 4-5k long aerobic tues off weds- long aerobic (4k0 or IM with aerobic thurs-kick focus, 2-3k, usually pretty dead legged after fri- usrpt or test set or off sat-long aerobic or long drill with lots of kick if shoulder dictates sun- off or 2500 'short stuff'/stroke I think at best i am getting 20k scm in... which is more than when i first got back in the water about 2 yrs ago, doing about 10k a week. I'll start stalking your blog a bit for main set ideas, thanks!

So it depends upon the time of year. Just was finishing up another base building phase. I was doing about 30k a week for about 4 weeks there, swimming every day. Developed a smidgen of "swimmer's shoulder" in my left shoulder, so I have been doing A LOT of kicking the past two weeks, and probably will continue kicking for the foreseeable future (saw doc today, no issues, just needs some rest). But during my aerobic phase I was doing mostly longer aerobic stuff, a dash of speed here and there, and ALWAYS some sort of quality speed set on Saturdays. When I have mended, I will be transitioning to speed/pace work most days, and drop down to 3-4k per workout (down from 4.5-6k before). Also was following this schedule pretty regularly from September through mid-November: Monday: Long Aerobic (6k ish) Tuesday: I.M. or Recovery (4-5k) Wednesday: Speed work (3.5-5k) Thursday: I.M. or Recovery, whichever I need more and depending on what I did Tuesday (4-5k) Friday: wildcard, maybe buckets, maybe speed work, maybe just drilling (2.5-4.5k) Saturday: quality and speed diving off blocks (3-4k) Sunday: OFF or Long Easy Aerobic (0-4k) Thanks! Super helpful. i too get a twinge-y left shoulder when i bump up the yardage too much. Currently swimming SCM and essentially doing this although days vary based on my call schedule. mon- 4-5k long aerobic tues off weds- long aerobic (4k0 or IM with aerobic thurs-kick focus, 2-3k, usually pretty dead legged after fri- usrpt or test set or off sat-long aerobic or long drill with lots of kick if shoulder dictates sun- off or 2500 'short stuff'/stroke I think at best i am getting 20k scm in... which is more than when i first got back in the water about 2 yrs ago, doing about 10k a week. I'll start stalking your blog a bit for main set ideas, thanks!