Subject: Your go-to swim workout Just 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. |