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 think we agree more than disagree and in fact I know many cyclists and runners who could benefit from a little interval training. They do sometimes have hills which is a little interval training whether welcome or not.
My only point is it seems like swimmers seem so adverse to continuous swimming as part of training for reasons that relate more to tradition than science, more to the practical problems of coaching 30 swimmers at once than to science.
I think with most of us having jobs, families etc and often under some time pressure when we work out masters swimmers need to seriously look at continuous swimming AS PART OF a workout program.
The whole idea of being in the aerobic range is that you are not working too hard so a rest interval makes no sense to me. What is it you are recovering from? When training in this range you should not be building up lactic acid or oxygen debt.
I think we agree more than disagree and in fact I know many cyclists and runners who could benefit from a little interval training. They do sometimes have hills which is a little interval training whether welcome or not.
My only point is it seems like swimmers seem so adverse to continuous swimming as part of training for reasons that relate more to tradition than science, more to the practical problems of coaching 30 swimmers at once than to science.
I think with most of us having jobs, families etc and often under some time pressure when we work out masters swimmers need to seriously look at continuous swimming AS PART OF a workout program.
The whole idea of being in the aerobic range is that you are not working too hard so a rest interval makes no sense to me. What is it you are recovering from? When training in this range you should not be building up lactic acid or oxygen debt.
