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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I am not sure what you mean by "main workout". Heart rate training is welll tested and I think it applies to swimming. Most of the distance of a distance swimmer should be at aerobic pace. the problem with the swimmer in your example isn't that he swims 5K at a time, the problem is this is the only type of training he does. The premise that swimming is somehow different and you need to do interval training instead of continuous distance has no support in physiology.
I am not sure what you mean by "main workout". Heart rate training is welll tested and I think it applies to swimming. Most of the distance of a distance swimmer should be at aerobic pace. the problem with the swimmer in your example isn't that he swims 5K at a time, the problem is this is the only type of training he does. The premise that swimming is somehow different and you need to do interval training instead of continuous distance has no support in physiology.
