I'll be training on my own until around the end of April, and I'm looking to swim the IM and was wondering if this sounds like a good training schedual?:help: I'll be swimming about an hour a day while lifting weight 3 days a week
monday - fly only
tuesday - IM
wednesday - backstroke only
thursday - IM
friday - *** only
saturday - IM
sunday - freestyle only
then the next week rotate so the IM starts on monday
monday - IM
tuesday - fly
wednesday - IM
thursday - Back
friday - IM
saturday - ***
sunday - IM
then start the next week with freestyle etc.
its my first year swimming:wiggle: so im looking for any feedback on a plan like this, im just trying to stay in shape and work on techniques for all strokes, until i start swimming for a team again.
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Keith,
I would be interested to know what distance IM you are planning to swim? And even though you say you swim an hour each workout, how is that hour swum? Are you doing sprints, 100 repeats, interval work, drills? I think it may be more advantageous to have a better mix within each workout, not just dedicate a workout to a particular stroke, and I would add more freestyle interval work to build conditioning and stamina. My point is swimming an hour of breastroke may help you psychologically, but how is that stroke being broken down over the course of an hour? And I would like to see a little more IM work within each workout; say for instance, fly to back sets, back to *** sets, etc.
Give us a little more information on these workouts so we can help critique it.
donna
Keith,
I would be interested to know what distance IM you are planning to swim? And even though you say you swim an hour each workout, how is that hour swum? Are you doing sprints, 100 repeats, interval work, drills? I think it may be more advantageous to have a better mix within each workout, not just dedicate a workout to a particular stroke, and I would add more freestyle interval work to build conditioning and stamina. My point is swimming an hour of breastroke may help you psychologically, but how is that stroke being broken down over the course of an hour? And I would like to see a little more IM work within each workout; say for instance, fly to back sets, back to *** sets, etc.
Give us a little more information on these workouts so we can help critique it.
donna
