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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Matt,
You are talking rest INTERVALS (and are correct) and I'm talking work/rest RATIOS (and am correct, too).
A 10/1 W/R ratio is lots of Work and little Rest, say, 150 seconds of Work followed by 15 seconds Rest. This would be a HIGH W/R ratio as 10 / 1 = 10.0
A 1/6 W/R ratio is little Work followed by lots of Rest, say 15 seconds of Work followed by 90 seconds Rest. This would be a LOW W/R ratio as 1 / 6 = 0.16
If you were talking "Rest/Work" ratios then the words "high" and "low" in the above would be reversed. But I rarely if ever hear these ratios addressed as "R/W", only as "W/R", perhaps because most people think "work" first, then "rest".
Matt,
You are talking rest INTERVALS (and are correct) and I'm talking work/rest RATIOS (and am correct, too).
A 10/1 W/R ratio is lots of Work and little Rest, say, 150 seconds of Work followed by 15 seconds Rest. This would be a HIGH W/R ratio as 10 / 1 = 10.0
A 1/6 W/R ratio is little Work followed by lots of Rest, say 15 seconds of Work followed by 90 seconds Rest. This would be a LOW W/R ratio as 1 / 6 = 0.16
If you were talking "Rest/Work" ratios then the words "high" and "low" in the above would be reversed. But I rarely if ever hear these ratios addressed as "R/W", only as "W/R", perhaps because most people think "work" first, then "rest".
