50+ workout

Well folks, I am only 52 but in our workouts we have 5 people that are older than 60 in fact 2 of them are pushing 70 within the next couple of years. The workouts I post in the section of Why Swim, If You Can Fly!? Are easily adapted for the amount of time you may have to train as well as your ability. So even though the workout is written for an average 90 to 100 minutes you can chop off 5 minutes from warm up, a sprint set from the 2 or 3 recommended, 1 or 2 loops from the aerobic set and 1 or 2 loops from the kick set and all of a sudden you have yourself 60, 45 or 75 minutes of well balanced training. In fact our 9 am workout is only from 9 to 10 because it is made of a group of people that swim really well but are not very keen on racing but are keen on being fit and they love to dance in the water... Unlike conventional workouts that send you off on a fixed send-off, i.e. 10 x 100 on 1:45 for instance, we swim during a predetermined amount of time with fixed resting intervals, so the person that swims repeat 100's holding a 1:10 pace can work out in the same lane with the person that holds 2:13 pace they both only need to respect the fixed resting interval: 30' x 100 w/30" to 40". If the resting interval is going to be 3 to 4 minutes between swims, in the event of the VO2 max sets or the Lactate Tolerance sets then often time we will start together. We know today from research that in aerobic sports like ours, the resting interval is very important so long as you work for the duration of the set in order to optimize your training. If the resting interval seems to be too short, I am going to tell you that you are going too hard and you ought to shift into a gear that allows you to rest while you swim so the resting interval will be adequate. Since the sets normally last from 20 to 25 to 40 to 60 minutes the fast swimmers and the slow swimmers will swim the same amount of time only some will do more repetitions. On the days that we do "miles" who cares if you do 1 or 2 or 2 1/2 until time is up, the important thing is that you swam during 40 to 60 minutes at the aerobic speed prescribed; and if you swim 25' x 100's with 30" rest who cares if you do 15 leaving on 1:40 holding 1:10 or you do 10 swims leaving on 2:30 holding 2' Come and visit the workout section some time, if you have trouble understanding, I will be happy to take you by the hand, in fact, I will come out to your team and help everyone out.

Well folks, I am only 52 but in our workouts we have 5 people that are older than 60 in fact 2 of them are pushing 70 within the next couple of years. The workouts I post in the section of Why Swim, If You Can Fly!? Are easily adapted for the amount of time you may have to train as well as your ability. So even though the workout is written for an average 90 to 100 minutes you can chop off 5 minutes from warm up, a sprint set from the 2 or 3 recommended, 1 or 2 loops from the aerobic set and 1 or 2 loops from the kick set and all of a sudden you have yourself 60, 45 or 75 minutes of well balanced training. In fact our 9 am workout is only from 9 to 10 because it is made of a group of people that swim really well but are not very keen on racing but are keen on being fit and they love to dance in the water... Unlike conventional workouts that send you off on a fixed send-off, i.e. 10 x 100 on 1:45 for instance, we swim during a predetermined amount of time with fixed resting intervals, so the person that swims repeat 100's holding a 1:10 pace can work out in the same lane with the person that holds 2:13 pace they both only need to respect the fixed resting interval: 30' x 100 w/30" to 40". If the resting interval is going to be 3 to 4 minutes between swims, in the event of the VO2 max sets or the Lactate Tolerance sets then often time we will start together. We know today from research that in aerobic sports like ours, the resting interval is very important so long as you work for the duration of the set in order to optimize your training. If the resting interval seems to be too short, I am going to tell you that you are going too hard and you ought to shift into a gear that allows you to rest while you swim so the resting interval will be adequate. Since the sets normally last from 20 to 25 to 40 to 60 minutes the fast swimmers and the slow swimmers will swim the same amount of time only some will do more repetitions. On the days that we do "miles" who cares if you do 1 or 2 or 2 1/2 until time is up, the important thing is that you swam during 40 to 60 minutes at the aerobic speed prescribed; and if you swim 25' x 100's with 30" rest who cares if you do 15 leaving on 1:40 holding 1:10 or you do 10 swims leaving on 2:30 holding 2' Come and visit the workout section some time, if you have trouble understanding, I will be happy to take you by the hand, in fact, I will come out to your team and help everyone out.