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Your go-to swim workout
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 2016-09-20 10:32 AM |
Veteran  976    New Hampshire |  Subject: Your go-to swim workoutJust started and ended my season last week with a sprint race and now I'm looking just to build for the time being before getting on a more specific training schedule come late winter/early spring to set up for my first 70.3. I just got back in the pool about 6 weeks ago after 2 years off so I'm still seeing a pretty strong series of gains where every week I've been dropping 3-4s/100 to get back to my previous 1:30 or so pace just by simply swimming more often. I typically like to keep my sessions to roughly 2000 yards in the interest of time since I swim on my lunch break but I can get there 3 times a week no problem. Previously while training for an Olympic a few years ago I was doing lots of high effort 100 repeats with 10-15 second rest between and that netted me some great gains (for me) but it did get a little boring. Does anyone have any suggestions for something to break up the workouts a bit more. I haven't really experimented with pull buoys or kick boards as much as I should, so I think that's one thing I'll shoot for. I keep noticing gains just swimming more, so that's my first answer, but anything after that is much appreciated. |
| 2016-09-20 10:42 AM in reply to: jonD81 |
Master 2429 Falls Church, Virginia | Subject: RE: Your go-to swim workout I just bumped to the top a thread with four full pages of BTer's daily swim workouts  Enjoy! |
| 2016-09-20 10:55 AM in reply to: Atlantia |
Veteran 976 New Hampshire | Subject: RE: Your go-to swim workout Nice, thanks. Had to add that one to my favorites. I'll try and keep it alive. |
| 2016-09-25 6:40 PM in reply to: jonD81 |
Veteran 720 Aurora, Illinois | Subject: RE: Your go-to swim workout I'm a fan of 300 repeats. When nothing else is planned and I jump in the pool, doing a few sets of 300 always seems to work! Seems like the perfect distance to mix in some speed and endurance and you can always mix things up: 100 sprint (simulate race start) / 100 steady / 100 easy. Etc... |
| 2016-09-25 7:17 PM in reply to: jonD81 |
| 197 | Subject: RE: Your go-to swim workout I like ladder workouts. I will typically do a 200 or 300 warm up and then the main set starting at 50 or 100 yards and increasing by 50 (or 100) yards until I get to 500 and then start descending until I get back to the original starting yardage. After that an easy 200 yard cool down. It's a pretty easy way to get two or three thousand yards quickly. J White |
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