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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A couple comments - First of all, you probably shouldn't swim every day unless you are in really great shape and have been swimming a long time. I'm a college student, and even I can't handle swimming every day. 6x/week is probably just as good or better, since your body gets a day to recover.
Also, it may be better to mix it up a little more. Maybe work on technique for a certain stroke for half the workout and do sprints and/or endurance for the other half, and some days do more hard swimming or more technique work.
The distance you are training for is also very important. A 100 IM is basically an all-out sprint, the 200 requires a little pacing, and the 400 requires much more endurance and pacing. If you are training for a 100 IM, do sprint sets like 4x(25 all out, 75 easy), doing one sprint each stroke. If you are training for a 400 IM, do more endurance work, like 50's or 100 IM's on an interval.
A couple comments - First of all, you probably shouldn't swim every day unless you are in really great shape and have been swimming a long time. I'm a college student, and even I can't handle swimming every day. 6x/week is probably just as good or better, since your body gets a day to recover.
Also, it may be better to mix it up a little more. Maybe work on technique for a certain stroke for half the workout and do sprints and/or endurance for the other half, and some days do more hard swimming or more technique work.
The distance you are training for is also very important. A 100 IM is basically an all-out sprint, the 200 requires a little pacing, and the 400 requires much more endurance and pacing. If you are training for a 100 IM, do sprint sets like 4x(25 all out, 75 easy), doing one sprint each stroke. If you are training for a 400 IM, do more endurance work, like 50's or 100 IM's on an interval.
