Just a thought/request:
At some point in the future, it would be nice to have workouts posted by someone who specializes in LONG distance coaching with an eye on open water distances (1 mile "death sprints" to ??? miles). The workouts provided are generally excellent, but since open water distances basically start where pool distances leave off, it would be great to have something a bit more specific. This is especially true since there is a relatively small body of printed work on longer distance/open water training and coaches for LONG distances seem few and far between.
Would anyone else be interested and would this be possible?
-LBJ
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Maglischo makes the point in Swimming Fastest that you need to train at different speeds in order to develop the different types of muscle fibers. Long slow swimming is nothing more than basic endurance (or recovery swimming, depending on the speed) and will only train the slow twitch fibers (and will not develop other parameters like buffering capacity, lactic acid removal, etc.). None of this is relevant if you're not planning to compete.
Maglischo makes the point in Swimming Fastest that you need to train at different speeds in order to develop the different types of muscle fibers. Long slow swimming is nothing more than basic endurance (or recovery swimming, depending on the speed) and will only train the slow twitch fibers (and will not develop other parameters like buffering capacity, lactic acid removal, etc.). None of this is relevant if you're not planning to compete.
