I'm back in the water training for the first time since college -- 20+ years ago. It took a little while but I'm up to 3k/work-out, but predictably a lot slower than when I was a kid. I'm trying to get some sense of what intervals to set/keep during sets. Right now it's pretty much a survival thing: 50's on a minute, 100's on 1:45 and 200's on 3:30. That's as fast as I can go and still do 5-10 to a set. What kind of intervals are we "more mature" swimmers doing?
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Emmett,
Thanks, this is an excellent nutshell. I've printed out a copy for my fellow summer league coaches. Because I am a little thick today, could you connect the dots for me on one last issue. Why do sprinters do a lot of work at higher rest intervals, and distance people lower?
I did a double take on your 3rd and 4th paragraphs from the bottom. I always thought that distance people did aerobic work (low rest intervals), and sprinters anaerobic work (high rest intervals).
Matt
Emmett,
Thanks, this is an excellent nutshell. I've printed out a copy for my fellow summer league coaches. Because I am a little thick today, could you connect the dots for me on one last issue. Why do sprinters do a lot of work at higher rest intervals, and distance people lower?
I did a double take on your 3rd and 4th paragraphs from the bottom. I always thought that distance people did aerobic work (low rest intervals), and sprinters anaerobic work (high rest intervals).
Matt
