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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Ernie,
Since the webmaster frowns on shilling your own products in the discussions, let me shill for Emmett. Buy his book, Fitness Swimming. He has several chapters that provide sample workouts, explain the primary objective of the workout (skills, aerobic endurance, lactate endurance, or lactate tolerance), AND tell you how to fit together a workout plan for a given season. There is so much in such a small package! I bought the book over a year ago, and I am still working on getting my head around all of the good stuff, and using it in my own training, and for the training of our summer youth league team.
PS: if you'd like to correspond on this subject, I coached a summer league team for the first time last year and I'm doing it again this summer. Having to respond to your email would probably stimulate me to (get off my duff &) write down some of my random thoughts. Please make contact using the personal message feature of this discussion board.
Emmett: thanks for providing such a lucid 2-page summary of the cell chemistry aspect. (You should consider submitting it as an article to Swim or some other swimmers' magazine.) I'd love to link this up with your previous contribution to a discussion of pacing 100's; I think your post there and this one would compliment each other.
Matt
Ernie,
Since the webmaster frowns on shilling your own products in the discussions, let me shill for Emmett. Buy his book, Fitness Swimming. He has several chapters that provide sample workouts, explain the primary objective of the workout (skills, aerobic endurance, lactate endurance, or lactate tolerance), AND tell you how to fit together a workout plan for a given season. There is so much in such a small package! I bought the book over a year ago, and I am still working on getting my head around all of the good stuff, and using it in my own training, and for the training of our summer youth league team.
PS: if you'd like to correspond on this subject, I coached a summer league team for the first time last year and I'm doing it again this summer. Having to respond to your email would probably stimulate me to (get off my duff &) write down some of my random thoughts. Please make contact using the personal message feature of this discussion board.
Emmett: thanks for providing such a lucid 2-page summary of the cell chemistry aspect. (You should consider submitting it as an article to Swim or some other swimmers' magazine.) I'd love to link this up with your previous contribution to a discussion of pacing 100's; I think your post there and this one would compliment each other.
Matt
