I saw this in a post: I will swim 200 laps in a 25 meter pool. All free style. Non stop. This is done in 3 phases , !st 64 laps is moderate speed 2nd 64 laps is distance the balance is for endurance.
My first reaction was WHY ? If you swim like this you will never know how good a swimmer you could be !
Reasons why.
1.- Your range of motion becomes less as your muscles fatigue and tighten up. This leads to the long, smooth stroke that your first few lengths have, deteriorating into a short, choppy survival stroke.
2.- You can only train one energy system, Aerobic, the anaerobic & lactic systems are untouched.
3.- You cannot improve your technique unless you use drills in a progressive manner.
4.- Why not put in some drills to check your technique. For example 10 strokes of head-up free every few lengths to check you hand entry ?
5.- By only doing Freestyle you are setting yourself up for injured shoulders, with all kinds of impingement problems.
6.-Where are the Kick sets and fly kick sets to improve core body strength and awareness ?
7.-What about the joys' of fly, back and
*** ?
I put together this poll to see how people out there are training.
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Garteth. First I would like to ,thank you for a good commen sense approach to other than what I doing. But as a younger man all i ever did wsa ocean swimming. That is after learning how to swim in a pool. But once I got in open water , it was another world.(hard to explain) I found it was total freedom. Yes at 1 time I could fly *** back. But after not having swam in 45 years, I found free was easy. I dont belong to any teams nor do I have any coaching. And I dont really train as in the sense of ,of traing to compete. This what I do is for areobics. Another problem is I like the gym to much. But I have and do compete now . Naturally all free style events. And again thank you for your ,ideas. Dom:) :cool: :)
Garteth. First I would like to ,thank you for a good commen sense approach to other than what I doing. But as a younger man all i ever did wsa ocean swimming. That is after learning how to swim in a pool. But once I got in open water , it was another world.(hard to explain) I found it was total freedom. Yes at 1 time I could fly *** back. But after not having swam in 45 years, I found free was easy. I dont belong to any teams nor do I have any coaching. And I dont really train as in the sense of ,of traing to compete. This what I do is for areobics. Another problem is I like the gym to much. But I have and do compete now . Naturally all free style events. And again thank you for your ,ideas. Dom:) :cool: :)
