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 mix it all up. Since I do longer sets. 250's and up and with this thread making me think I have spent the last week doing shorter intervals. I got in with a friend who is fast and tried to keep up with him for short workout which consisted of a sprint 50, sprint 100 and sprint 50 with 1 minute rest between. Now I swim a lot so I am in good shape and after that set my arms were on fire. Shoulders felt like they should look like the hulk. This to me tells me that I am working my arms so l continued to do some short sets but not as fast to help make them stronger. Is it working? I am not sure but I can tell you this-the short intervals worked a different muscle or worked them really hard which is making them stronger.
I mix it all up. Since I do longer sets. 250's and up and with this thread making me think I have spent the last week doing shorter intervals. I got in with a friend who is fast and tried to keep up with him for short workout which consisted of a sprint 50, sprint 100 and sprint 50 with 1 minute rest between. Now I swim a lot so I am in good shape and after that set my arms were on fire. Shoulders felt like they should look like the hulk. This to me tells me that I am working my arms so l continued to do some short sets but not as fast to help make them stronger. Is it working? I am not sure but I can tell you this-the short intervals worked a different muscle or worked them really hard which is making them stronger.
