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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Hey everyone,
I swim 2 hours (soon to be 4 hours, once winter training begins), each day with my collegiate team doing interval training, which includes a bit of everything, all strokes, kick, sprint, drill, etc...
However, I also get in for an additional hour or two to swim non-stop freestyle. I throw in a lap kick on my back or side here and there to give my shoulders a break, but otherwise I swim nearly 4000 yards in an hour swim.
I don't agree with these points however,
I saw this in a post:
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.
1. I feel that when I am doing interval training, and the intervals are very fast, which often in my program as a sprinter they are, my strokes turn to crud. I get short, choppy, so called survival stroke very quickly. During my long consecutive swim I really work on stretching my stroke out for the entire time, and not letting my stroke flaunter. I work on body roll and really try to slow down my stroke and focus on the fine details of swimming such as hand placement and the catch and underwater pull.
2. That completly depends on how fast your doing these swims. From those I have spoken to on here about consecutive swimming a good deal of the members seem to have worked a kind of regimine into their long swims such as every 200 changing pace from a slow consistent speed to a build 200 to a 200pace to maybe even a 200speed and back to a 200 slow recovery 200.
All in all, I feel that since I have started this extra hour of consecutive swim to my workout, my times have dropped and I am much stronger, in all areas.
thats just my humble opinion of course:wiggle:
Hey everyone,
I swim 2 hours (soon to be 4 hours, once winter training begins), each day with my collegiate team doing interval training, which includes a bit of everything, all strokes, kick, sprint, drill, etc...
However, I also get in for an additional hour or two to swim non-stop freestyle. I throw in a lap kick on my back or side here and there to give my shoulders a break, but otherwise I swim nearly 4000 yards in an hour swim.
I don't agree with these points however,
I saw this in a post:
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.
1. I feel that when I am doing interval training, and the intervals are very fast, which often in my program as a sprinter they are, my strokes turn to crud. I get short, choppy, so called survival stroke very quickly. During my long consecutive swim I really work on stretching my stroke out for the entire time, and not letting my stroke flaunter. I work on body roll and really try to slow down my stroke and focus on the fine details of swimming such as hand placement and the catch and underwater pull.
2. That completly depends on how fast your doing these swims. From those I have spoken to on here about consecutive swimming a good deal of the members seem to have worked a kind of regimine into their long swims such as every 200 changing pace from a slow consistent speed to a build 200 to a 200pace to maybe even a 200speed and back to a 200 slow recovery 200.
All in all, I feel that since I have started this extra hour of consecutive swim to my workout, my times have dropped and I am much stronger, in all areas.
thats just my humble opinion of course:wiggle:
