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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There's always someone who likes to tell people to stop doing something...eating butter, watching TV, wearing mini skirts, calling them on the phone every 20 minutes...Did you just look for a thread where people are doing something you disapprove of, to come on and tell them to stop? Why does it matter why people do interval training? I like to improve my swimming skills because it increases my ease and enriches my experience in working my body within the water. Using my muscles and lungs in this way is a great feeling. And, as for intelligence, the brain does respond to change. Repetition, while it increases myelination and therefore ability to trust oneself in an activity, also causes the brain to use less "intelligence" than it would if it had to respond to new stimuli. New receptor sites are constantly appearing in the brain, waiting for new information to then be "myelinated." In that sense the brain is a muscle that must be worked with new information in order to stay strong and intelligent. Speaking of chess, it is assumed that this is in part why chess is associated with exceptionally brilliant minds -- because the possibilities of the game are (as far as we know) endless, and therefore require one to draw on all of one's analytical resources to succeed in each game. Why shouldn't we apply that to swimming?
There's always someone who likes to tell people to stop doing something...eating butter, watching TV, wearing mini skirts, calling them on the phone every 20 minutes...Did you just look for a thread where people are doing something you disapprove of, to come on and tell them to stop? Why does it matter why people do interval training? I like to improve my swimming skills because it increases my ease and enriches my experience in working my body within the water. Using my muscles and lungs in this way is a great feeling. And, as for intelligence, the brain does respond to change. Repetition, while it increases myelination and therefore ability to trust oneself in an activity, also causes the brain to use less "intelligence" than it would if it had to respond to new stimuli. New receptor sites are constantly appearing in the brain, waiting for new information to then be "myelinated." In that sense the brain is a muscle that must be worked with new information in order to stay strong and intelligent. Speaking of chess, it is assumed that this is in part why chess is associated with exceptionally brilliant minds -- because the possibilities of the game are (as far as we know) endless, and therefore require one to draw on all of one's analytical resources to succeed in each game. Why shouldn't we apply that to swimming?
