I am a 50+ (actually 60+) female, and I thought it might be interesting for some older folks to post some workouts. This is one I did today.
400 easy
8 X 50 IM order - 15 seconds rest. Odds are building, and evens are 25 max plus 25 easy.
5 X 300 - (100 IM + 100 free + 100 stroke - 15 seconds rest between each 100), 30 seconds rest between each 300. Descend times for each 300.
250 cool down
total: 2,550 yards.
Descending the times for the 300 yard sets made this workout challenging and interesting.
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Before the short course meters meet in Orlando last October I did something that I hadn't done before. A small group of us got together on Saturday mornings and did what we called a sprints workout. We would swim an fairly long warm-up and then do some drills. Then we would race. We divided into two groups - one group would time while the other group raced. We would cool down between each race with an easy 50 or 100. Because we alternated as timers, we had a long rest interval between each hard swim. In a such a workout we might do 3 X 100 (1 IM, one stroke, 1 free); 4 X 50, and 6 by 25 (we didn't time these - just swam hard). Then we would do an easy cooldown.
I was very pleased with my times in Orlando, and I think that practicing race pace helped.
Before the short course meters meet in Orlando last October I did something that I hadn't done before. A small group of us got together on Saturday mornings and did what we called a sprints workout. We would swim an fairly long warm-up and then do some drills. Then we would race. We divided into two groups - one group would time while the other group raced. We would cool down between each race with an easy 50 or 100. Because we alternated as timers, we had a long rest interval between each hard swim. In a such a workout we might do 3 X 100 (1 IM, one stroke, 1 free); 4 X 50, and 6 by 25 (we didn't time these - just swam hard). Then we would do an easy cooldown.
I was very pleased with my times in Orlando, and I think that practicing race pace helped.
