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,
As always, thanks for your kind remarks and for shilling for my book - I must buy you a beer sometime!
ejj,
As Matt indicated, my book (which Matt forgot to mention can be purchased at my web site www.h2oustonswims.org :) ) does include a fairly complete package for organizing swimming training, from individual practices up to entire seasons. What it DOESN'T do is go into any of the metabolic detail. The idea was to make the technical or scientific aspect of training as transparent as possible. Kinda like you not really knowing what's going on inside your TV set but being able to point the remote and watch Seinfeld reruns nonetheless.
For those who WANT the nitty-gritty of metabolism and precisely how it relates to set, practice, microcycle, mesocycle and macrocycle training, then I'd recommend Ernie Maglischo's "Swimming Even Faster".
Now Ernie owes me a beer... or maybe two, cuz his book is a lot thicker than mine.
Matt,
As always, thanks for your kind remarks and for shilling for my book - I must buy you a beer sometime!
ejj,
As Matt indicated, my book (which Matt forgot to mention can be purchased at my web site www.h2oustonswims.org :) ) does include a fairly complete package for organizing swimming training, from individual practices up to entire seasons. What it DOESN'T do is go into any of the metabolic detail. The idea was to make the technical or scientific aspect of training as transparent as possible. Kinda like you not really knowing what's going on inside your TV set but being able to point the remote and watch Seinfeld reruns nonetheless.
For those who WANT the nitty-gritty of metabolism and precisely how it relates to set, practice, microcycle, mesocycle and macrocycle training, then I'd recommend Ernie Maglischo's "Swimming Even Faster".
Now Ernie owes me a beer... or maybe two, cuz his book is a lot thicker than mine.
