How fast when you're training?
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xc800runner posted 15 weeks ago.
This depends on what you're swimming ability and goals are, the number of intervals you indent to do, and how ill you hope to be after the workout. As a joke (partially) my high school swim coach made us swim 10k yards on New Years Eve with the option of 200 x 50s or 100 x 100s. I was a sprinter to I naturally opted for the 50s. We did them on the 45, i.e. every 45 seconds we were going again, regardless of how long we took to swim it (usually 35 - 40 sec). I made it to 177 before reaching for a bucket. Then finished the last 23.
If you are finishing them in 40-45, this is a pretty good pace. I would try 10 or 20 x 50s at 50 sec including rest and see how you feel. If you feel good, but worked, this is a good pace. If you still feel fresh, drop your times down 5 seconds and push a bit harder. Fast swimming only gets easy after you swim fast.
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kkocan posted 15 weeks ago.
xc800runner wrote:
As a joke (partially) my high school swim coach made us swim 10k yards on New Years Eve with the option of 200 x 50s or 100 x 100s..
I think the new years sufferfest is a tradition among a lot of HS swim teams. I know for the slower swimmers they did 100x50's, us faster ones got to do 100x100's that day, and it really SUCKED. But the coach did make the slower guys stay behind once they were done to offer 'support' to us.
To the op, the above advice is correct in that to swim faster, you need to keep pushing yourself just like anything else. I know when I am started out the season after winter a good workout for me was 20x100 yds on 1:30. Once I started making that interval with 10 seconds of rest or more, I lower the time to 1:25, which is about where I'm at now. Once, hopefully, that gets comfy I will lower it again if I can.
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IM Wisconsin
I've recently been experiencing much better swims. I feel like I'm actually making progress on the position and I'm able to swim much longer and faster than even just a few weeks ago.
After an easy week, I jumped in for a quick interval workout where I was doing 50's in a 25 yard pool and I just blew any and all prior times away on my first 50y. I admit that I've been getting better at doing flip turns, but I do make a deliberate effort not to push off too far under water, so I don't suspect that has much to do with it.
I was turning :40-:45sec 50s, which felt pretty nice. I certainly couldn't hold the pace for even a half mile, but prior to that swim, I don't think I'd turned a 50 in faster than :55 or so.
What times are solid for doing 50s in a 25 yard pool for interval training?
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