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My new favorite IM swim set.
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 2009-01-24 7:22 PM |
 Subject: My new favorite IM swim set.I usually fall back on a tired old set on long swim days - 400, 2 x 300, 3 x 200, 4 x 100 and back up. Thanks to MikeB, have a new one. 1000 Swim on the same 100 interval (i.e., for 1:30 1000 on 15:00, 800 on 12:00, etc), but the time for each distance is set by the split for that distance in the prior one. So, swimming on a 1:30 push off, in the 1000 hit the 800 mark in 11:40, you have to beat that time in the 800. It's a lot of numbers to track, but it's a great exercise in pacing yourself, which is important on the IM swim, especially at the beginning, when you are not yet tired. If you go out too hard on that first 1000, yoou just screw yourself for the rest of the set (assuming you try to hit the marks). Mike's workout actually started at 1200, and in the heat of IM swim training, that would make for a nice 4200 yard set. Just another arrow in the quiver to get you through those long IM swim days
Edited by ChrisM 2009-01-24 7:23 PM |
| 2009-01-24 8:05 PM in reply to: #1927269 |
Master  1529    Living in the past | Subject: RE: My new favorite IM swim set. So not only do I need to accurately keep track of laps, but then note my split time and THEN find someplace to write it down....I'm ho$ed Sounds like fun, I think I'll try it at some point this season. Thx. |
| 2009-01-24 11:06 PM in reply to: #1927320 |
| Subject: RE: My new favorite IM swim set. Force - 2009-01-24 6:05 PM So not only do I need to accurately keep track of laps, but then note my split time and THEN find someplace to write it down....I'm ho$ed Sounds like fun, I think I'll try it at some point this season. Thx. Or do it in your head if you are swimming steady |
| 2009-01-25 5:06 AM in reply to: #1927269 |
Extreme Veteran 527 Round Rock, Texas | Subject: RE: My new favorite IM swim set. I am partial to the 40 x 100 or the 20 x 200 on the 1:30 interval. |
| 2009-01-25 5:57 PM in reply to: #1927269 |
Champion 7547  Albuquerque, New Mexico Bronze member | Subject: RE: My new favorite IM swim set. 1200-1000-800-600-400-200 sounds like a plan. I can track the necessary splits in my head. |
| 2009-01-26 8:11 AM in reply to: #1927468 |
Master 1529 Living in the past | Subject: RE: My new favorite IM swim set. ChrisM - 2009-01-24 11:06 PM Force - 2009-01-24 6:05 PM So not only do I need to accurately keep track of laps, but then note my split time and THEN find someplace to write it down....I'm ho$ed Sounds like fun, I think I'll try it at some point this season. Thx. Or do it in your head if you are swimming steady I was just messin' with my comment, hoping to start a hijack along the lines of "how do you keep track of laps...." |
| 2009-01-26 10:59 AM in reply to: #1927269 |
| 86 | Subject: RE: My new favorite IM swim set. I used to do sets but gave that up now I just swim one stroke and go for a long time 1 - 2 miles without stopping it seems to be working much better for me. I also gave up on all of the drills and just work on my form while I am swiiming also seems to be working well! |
| 2009-01-26 3:20 PM in reply to: #1927269 |
| Subject: RE: My new favorite IM swim set. Glad you found something that works! Me, I would shoot myself if I did that every workout. |
| 2009-01-26 3:21 PM in reply to: #1928715 |
| Subject: RE: My new favorite IM swim set. Force - 2009-01-26 6:11 AM ChrisM - 2009-01-24 11:06 PM Force - 2009-01-24 6:05 PM So not only do I need to accurately keep track of laps, but then note my split time and THEN find someplace to write it down....I'm ho$ed Sounds like fun, I think I'll try it at some point this season. Thx. Or do it in your head if you are swimming steady I was just messin' with my comment, hoping to start a hijack along the lines of "how do you keep track of laps...." <snerk> you'd need two piles of pennies to keep track of this! |
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