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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Exercise is not without a cost to the body in generation of free radicals and oxidative stress. There is a lot of experimental evidence and piles of anecdotal evidence that you can "break a body down" lower the immune system and damage the body with an overdose of exercise.
How much is too much. Probably quite a bit, the National Runners Study showed a continued benefit in health to runners with increasing mileage until the 80K a week mark then it was unclear. The examples cited by people like Dr. Weil of people's health suffering are extreme example like Ironman athletes. There is a bit of political correctness with mainstream medicine coming up with a prescription for exercise....30 to 45 minutes a day. But the evidence does not really support this number more is better to a point where that point is is hard to determine.forums.usms.org/.../dedhorse.gif
It does seem logical that adding some LSD (long slow distance) allows one to add health benefits without stressing the body too much though it might not do too much to help one's times.
Exercise is not without a cost to the body in generation of free radicals and oxidative stress. There is a lot of experimental evidence and piles of anecdotal evidence that you can "break a body down" lower the immune system and damage the body with an overdose of exercise.
How much is too much. Probably quite a bit, the National Runners Study showed a continued benefit in health to runners with increasing mileage until the 80K a week mark then it was unclear. The examples cited by people like Dr. Weil of people's health suffering are extreme example like Ironman athletes. There is a bit of political correctness with mainstream medicine coming up with a prescription for exercise....30 to 45 minutes a day. But the evidence does not really support this number more is better to a point where that point is is hard to determine.forums.usms.org/.../dedhorse.gif
It does seem logical that adding some LSD (long slow distance) allows one to add health benefits without stressing the body too much though it might not do too much to help one's times.
