colinlaughery wrote:
Now a set of say 4 x 1,000's on x rest or a given interval can be useful. No need to do it that much, but when you would do it, do something like descend or build.
Did a set of 10 x 1000's (yds) in college when I used to be a swimmer on like 10:30's. That was a bitch. I guess you could call that steady state?
Side note:
I used to go to Tom Jager's (50m WR Holder for a while) camp down near his house in NM over the summer. It was direct coaching from him and only about 15 - 20 campers or so. He said that the one set that made him fast was 3 x 1000's LCM kick. No board. That was f*king the most boring thing I have ever done in my life. This is a very, very interesting anecdote, one of those things you only ever hear from other real swimmers, and that you would be highly unlikely to read in your average interview of a guy at that level, i.e. this is the real inside scoop. Actually, it is fairly amazing that a 50/100 guy like Jager felt that it was a set like 3 x 1000 LCM kick made him really fast; pretty counterintuitive for a pure sprinter. Did he say if he did them all freestyle, or perhaps some on his back??? On your back, you would at least be able to look at the clouds as Jason said, not so much with your head down in the water kicking free on your stomach w/o the board. Agree that would be a very boring set; i've done 10 x 400 scm IM kick w/ no board, but at least in that set i got to change kicks every 100 m:)
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