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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Originally posted by Bert Petersen
I swim fly, and one of my problems is to get up the intestinal fortitude to sprint a whole 100......
What I have been doing is not new, but is new to me and seems to be very helpful. I call it "add-a-stroke". You swim until your stroke disintegrates, as follows: Length one, one stroke fly, the rest free-length two, two strokes fly, then free-3 for 3, etc. Bert ~~~^o^~~~
I did a similar drill, and IT WORKS! Emmett wrote about this method in Swim a few years ago. It almost seemed too simple to be effective, but I decided to give it a go anyway, and I have been delighted with the results. Like most of us, I was practicing my mistakes in fly - doing one or two strokes of quality (for me anyway) fly per lap, followed by fly that was just good enough to keep the life guard from deciding that I needed help. You can imagine that this was especially bad if the pool was long course - I got to practice a lot of messy fly then.
I remember that I started Emmett's drill by doing two strokes of fly per length, and it was a few weeks before I moved up to three strokes of fly.
I am proud to say that I have since done the 200 fly. I remember that my goal was to not fall apart, and I achieved that. It was a great feeling, and I credit these results to Emmett's simple but-it-makes-a-lot-of sense drill!
Good luck with it. And also, thanks for the kind words.
Originally posted by Bert Petersen
I swim fly, and one of my problems is to get up the intestinal fortitude to sprint a whole 100......
What I have been doing is not new, but is new to me and seems to be very helpful. I call it "add-a-stroke". You swim until your stroke disintegrates, as follows: Length one, one stroke fly, the rest free-length two, two strokes fly, then free-3 for 3, etc. Bert ~~~^o^~~~
I did a similar drill, and IT WORKS! Emmett wrote about this method in Swim a few years ago. It almost seemed too simple to be effective, but I decided to give it a go anyway, and I have been delighted with the results. Like most of us, I was practicing my mistakes in fly - doing one or two strokes of quality (for me anyway) fly per lap, followed by fly that was just good enough to keep the life guard from deciding that I needed help. You can imagine that this was especially bad if the pool was long course - I got to practice a lot of messy fly then.
I remember that I started Emmett's drill by doing two strokes of fly per length, and it was a few weeks before I moved up to three strokes of fly.
I am proud to say that I have since done the 200 fly. I remember that my goal was to not fall apart, and I achieved that. It was a great feeling, and I credit these results to Emmett's simple but-it-makes-a-lot-of sense drill!
Good luck with it. And also, thanks for the kind words.
