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
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I put together this poll to see how people out there are training.
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Originally posted by butterflybeer
Wayne,
This is very interesting.
Do you know, or have a idea when exactly interval training becomes non-interval training or vice versa? For example is swimming 8x200 and getting 20 sec rest considered interval training? What if I were getting 15, or 10 seconds rest, would this be considered interval training? What if I were swimming a set of 400's and was getting 5 seconds rest? Would that be interval training?
I am not trying to be cute. I am genuinely interested in the exact definition you are using for interval training. Would you define interval training as starting a new repeat every x minutes/seconds? Or, might it have something to do with heart rate peaks and valleys?
That was a very interesting question that did not get answered.I was thinkig about the same thing.At what point does the interval training become a non-interval one?
Originally posted by butterflybeer
Wayne,
This is very interesting.
Do you know, or have a idea when exactly interval training becomes non-interval training or vice versa? For example is swimming 8x200 and getting 20 sec rest considered interval training? What if I were getting 15, or 10 seconds rest, would this be considered interval training? What if I were swimming a set of 400's and was getting 5 seconds rest? Would that be interval training?
I am not trying to be cute. I am genuinely interested in the exact definition you are using for interval training. Would you define interval training as starting a new repeat every x minutes/seconds? Or, might it have something to do with heart rate peaks and valleys?
That was a very interesting question that did not get answered.I was thinkig about the same thing.At what point does the interval training become a non-interval one?
