I'm a Speed Freak through and through. :D
Uh, no, not that kind of Speed.
I'm talking about 25 and 50 meter freestyle type of speed. There is nothing I want more than a low, low 20 second 50 SCM.
Any good workouts?
Just the idea of swimmng anything beyond 100m makes me ill. All of you long distance swimmers are truely nuts. You should seek medical help.
I've only trained/ swimmed competatively for 2 months and I know my lungs are way out of shape. Maybe that's why I like the shorter distances. Currently my best 25m time is 11.3 sec and my best 50 SCM is 26 sec.
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I have become a sprinter almost by default because I am terrible at anything above middle distance. I was not a sprinter 25 years ago.
I have done some reading of Maglischo's Swimming Fastest and my coach is tailoring my overall workout for speed on 50s and 100s.
One thing I do consistently is sprint sets with long rest intervals, sometimes with active rest. The sprint part, sometimes as short as 15 yards, is always 100% effort.
Sample sprint sets:
6x50 on 2:30, 25 sprint, 25 easy
8x100 on 3:00, 25 sprint, 75 easy
4x50 on 2:30, 15 sprint, 35 easy
Sprint sets aren't very useful at the end of a workout when all your glycogen is depleted either. So sometimes move the sprint work earlier in the workout.
Maglischo points out that traditional endurance sets serve very little purpose to sprint speed, especially for 50s. Your energy sources for a 50 are not improved by swimming hard long sets of 200s or 500s. Easier basic endurance sets have value for base endurance plus they provide the stroke repetition.
I have become a sprinter almost by default because I am terrible at anything above middle distance. I was not a sprinter 25 years ago.
I have done some reading of Maglischo's Swimming Fastest and my coach is tailoring my overall workout for speed on 50s and 100s.
One thing I do consistently is sprint sets with long rest intervals, sometimes with active rest. The sprint part, sometimes as short as 15 yards, is always 100% effort.
Sample sprint sets:
6x50 on 2:30, 25 sprint, 25 easy
8x100 on 3:00, 25 sprint, 75 easy
4x50 on 2:30, 15 sprint, 35 easy
Sprint sets aren't very useful at the end of a workout when all your glycogen is depleted either. So sometimes move the sprint work earlier in the workout.
Maglischo points out that traditional endurance sets serve very little purpose to sprint speed, especially for 50s. Your energy sources for a 50 are not improved by swimming hard long sets of 200s or 500s. Easier basic endurance sets have value for base endurance plus they provide the stroke repetition.
