There has been some discussion of non stop swimming all freestyle. I guess one obvious question is why are you swimming for aerobic fitness only this is fine. If one is training for distance swimming an argument can be made for this as part of a weekly training program. I (and people smarter than me) would argue that swimmers are too much in love with interval training as it relates to distance swimming, in the track world the Kenyans do some long steady runs in fact lots of them for their steeplechase, and 5 K and 10K and marathon runners.
The advantage of interval training, even for long distance events, is that it gets your body ready for race pace. For a race, you can go right to the edge of your limits. It is tough to do that in practice, day in and day out (with work / kids / other activities to balance), so you swim a shorter interval that you can go faster. Then you repeat that enough times to give you the endurance base.
The advantage of interval training, even for long distance events, is that it gets your body ready for race pace. For a race, you can go right to the edge of your limits. It is tough to do that in practice, day in and day out (with work / kids / other activities to balance), so you swim a shorter interval that you can go faster. Then you repeat that enough times to give you the endurance base.
