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 is a lot more to the story than exercise and unfortunately Okinawa is becoming a great case study to how important diet is, the Okinawian diet is being Westernized there are changes already in the mortality. But I point to that as a population that does no interval training and seems to enjoy great health.
Interval training note today part 4
Interval training works of course to help you swim faster and there seems to be multiple health benefits such as increased metabolic rate, greater fat burning, increases in cardiovascular fitness. The good news is that it may not take that much interval training to realize a lot of these benefits.
By this I mean like many biological systems it is not additional in nature, twice the interval training won't produce twice the effect. In fact many experts (I use that term loosely) feel that twice a week will give you most of the benefits.
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There is a lot more to the story than exercise and unfortunately Okinawa is becoming a great case study to how important diet is, the Okinawian diet is being Westernized there are changes already in the mortality. But I point to that as a population that does no interval training and seems to enjoy great health.
Interval training note today part 4
Interval training works of course to help you swim faster and there seems to be multiple health benefits such as increased metabolic rate, greater fat burning, increases in cardiovascular fitness. The good news is that it may not take that much interval training to realize a lot of these benefits.
By this I mean like many biological systems it is not additional in nature, twice the interval training won't produce twice the effect. In fact many experts (I use that term loosely) feel that twice a week will give you most of the benefits.
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