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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And the reasons sprinters do high intensity work with lots of rest are many and varied - like I said, I'm having to leave out a lot of details. In general rest allow the body to recover sufficiently from the previous bout to be able to stress the CP/ATP and/or anaerobic system maximally in each bout. Trying to sprint with too many H+ ions floating around doesn't result in actual sprinting and doesn't stress the non- or anaerobic systems a lot. Actually, the sprinter shouldn't really need much static rest - instead he should do lots of LOW intensity swimming as active rest.
And the reasons sprinters do high intensity work with lots of rest are many and varied - like I said, I'm having to leave out a lot of details. In general rest allow the body to recover sufficiently from the previous bout to be able to stress the CP/ATP and/or anaerobic system maximally in each bout. Trying to sprint with too many H+ ions floating around doesn't result in actual sprinting and doesn't stress the non- or anaerobic systems a lot. Actually, the sprinter shouldn't really need much static rest - instead he should do lots of LOW intensity swimming as active rest.
