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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Another vote for a coach, especially since I'm a newbie to swimming as a sport. Our DAMA coach, Danielle Newton, has taken into account my newbie status and interest in continuing with some of the Total Immersion principles. I really appreciate this as I had to spend much of my time just trying to keep from floundering the first few weeks of practice, then leaned on a swim snorkel for the next couple of months for anything over 100, now finally am able to go multiple 300s and up to 800y at reasonable pace comfortably.
Now under her direction, working to add in some speed work, more drills, perhaps even the 1 hour postal as a long distance workout. Hope to be able to compete in, and improve significantly, in middle distance events (200-400-800) which is where I found modest success years ago as a runner.
Cheers de Mark
Another vote for a coach, especially since I'm a newbie to swimming as a sport. Our DAMA coach, Danielle Newton, has taken into account my newbie status and interest in continuing with some of the Total Immersion principles. I really appreciate this as I had to spend much of my time just trying to keep from floundering the first few weeks of practice, then leaned on a swim snorkel for the next couple of months for anything over 100, now finally am able to go multiple 300s and up to 800y at reasonable pace comfortably.
Now under her direction, working to add in some speed work, more drills, perhaps even the 1 hour postal as a long distance workout. Hope to be able to compete in, and improve significantly, in middle distance events (200-400-800) which is where I found modest success years ago as a runner.
Cheers de Mark
