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:
I agree with Matt, this is great stuff and thank you for taking the time to post. Now, do you have any tips on how to put this together into a training regime? For kids I coach, stroke work is the highest priority, followed by strength training and then speed work. For myself, as a masters swimmer, I have no time for 2-2.5 hour workouts and want to maximize the benefit from 1 hour workouts, 4-5 days a week. It would seem logical that there must be a different approach to kids (developmental vice higher end competitive) and Masters (competitive). How do I translate your aerobic/anaerobic discussion into a plan over days, weeks and months? Is it just mix and match or is there a generally accepted aerobic/anaerobic blend to look for?
Emmett:
I agree with Matt, this is great stuff and thank you for taking the time to post. Now, do you have any tips on how to put this together into a training regime? For kids I coach, stroke work is the highest priority, followed by strength training and then speed work. For myself, as a masters swimmer, I have no time for 2-2.5 hour workouts and want to maximize the benefit from 1 hour workouts, 4-5 days a week. It would seem logical that there must be a different approach to kids (developmental vice higher end competitive) and Masters (competitive). How do I translate your aerobic/anaerobic discussion into a plan over days, weeks and months? Is it just mix and match or is there a generally accepted aerobic/anaerobic blend to look for?
