I saw the Nitro set on the Flowswimming website - and the distance swimmer in me got all excited (I sometimes hate that guy). The set was in yards and started at a 20 sec interval - then a 25 sec - keep adding 5 seconds to the interval all the way to 2 minutes - TRY TO DO AS MUCH yardage as possible. For example try to swim a 100 at the 60 sec - but then you also have to make the 1:05 interval and so on. But then the "sprinter" in me wanted a set to challenge myself - but still keep it a sprint workout + have to swim it by myself - this is actually a set which you can only swim by yourself -at your pace and rest:
Simple set: 20x25 - yards
Pace: race pace for 100 - I don't have a timer - but a digital pace clock - for me, I have to stay under 12 sec on all of them
Interval: Try to complete the set as quickly as possible, while maintaining the pace -- I will start on 45 sec interval and see what happens -- if it's easy, I can go to 40 or 35, if I start missing, I will add to 50 or 60s.
Record overall time and number of misses - repeat next week or week later.
Sounds interesting. Normally I hate 25s but this would be fun.
Along those lines, our coach will sometimes have us do several 200s broken at the 25s at the end of practice and expect us to go ungodly fast times. Often he'll start off with low rest (eg 0:20) and then add time to the interval and expect significant time drops.
It is kind of fun to see how fast you can go with a decent bit of rest. Once I did it back on the 0:40 and the coach challenged me to break Lochte's AR (which I did, barely...though I may have cheated a bit on the underwaters by not worrying about 15m).
I was also eyeing the Nitro set with both an excited and scared feeling. It looks like a real challenge and it looks like buckets of pain. Now I need to figure out how to do it since I'm gonna be so busy on not dying to try and read a clock.
I was also eyeing the Nitro set with both an excited and scared feeling. It looks like a real challenge and it looks like buckets of pain. Now I need to figure out how to do it since I'm gonna be so busy on not dying to try and read a clock.
That set seemed almost impossible to do on your own without a coach whistling the intervals (kind of like trying to keep track of the descending intervals on dropout 50s). It even looked tricky for the coach to keep track of; it looked like he had a clipboard with all the whistle points mapped.
I can see getting into the zen of the whistle and pushing hard for that sub-2:00 200, though. I can also see blowing chunks into the gutter. Awesome set.
