Sounds like torture. When I want to increase endurance, I just do a whole bunch of 500 yd repeats with no more than 1 minute between, sometimes using fins or paddles and sometimes without.
On 1 Apr 2005 06:54:37 -0800, "Chris Durkin" <durkinc92@hotmail.com> wrote:
Here's one my triathlon coach gave us a couple of weeks ago, I thought I'd share it. Maybe this should be cross posted to alt.masochism... It's intended for use as the main set, after a couple hundred yards easy warmup. Supposedly the goal is to build VO2Max, increase ability to use full lung cpacity, and build "mental toughness". Not sure about the first two, but it definitely tested #3 in my case.
Swim 1600 yards at a medium-strong pace. Broken up into 8 200s (no rest in between). Each 200 is a breathing exercise, broken into 4 50s. The first 50 you breathe every 3, second every 4, third every 5, fourth every 6 strokes. If you normally breathe every two you can start at two instead and go to 5. Repeat 8x without pausing.
I noticed that even though I was dying at the end during the 5s and 6es, the increased stroke rate put me in a faster "gear" and I ended up negative splitting the 200s. It also made breathing every 4 or 5 seem like a luxury. (I normally do every 3).
In article <1112367276.788856.181480@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>, durkinc92@hotmail.com says...> Here's one my triathlon coach gave us a couple of weeks ago, I thought> I'd share it. Maybe this should be cross posted to alt.masochism...> It's intended for use as the main set, after a couple hundred yards> easy warmup. Supposedly the goal is to build VO2Max, increase ability> to use full lung cpacity, and build "mental toughness". Not sure about> the first two, but it definitely tested #3 in my case.>
Swim 1600 yards at a medium-strong pace. Broken up into 8 200s (no rest> in between). Each 200 is a breathing exercise, broken into 4 50s. The> first 50 you breathe every 3, second every 4, third every 5, fourth> every 6 strokes. If you normally breathe every two you can start at two> instead and go to 5. Repeat 8x without pausing.>
I noticed that even though I was dying at the end during the 5s and> 6es, the increased stroke rate put me in a faster "gear" and I ended up> negative splitting the 200s. It also made breathing every 4 or 5 seem> like a luxury. (I normally do every 3).>
Have fun>
Here is a more masochist version which we used for free diving trainings: After some warmup and drills, we swam 100 m breathing every 3 strokes, then 100 m 3-5 (meaning breathe at 3rd stroke, then at 5th), then 5-7, so on till 9-11 after which we used to rest and go on with other drills. This drill was not done against time, we swam at a moderate speed all the time. Of course the idea was not speed, just moving without breathing.
Now, I can understand this in a free diving context but I doubt its value for VO2max. -- Burak please remove Dot NOREPLY Dot to reply
"me" <avanduyne@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1113072183.955192.131240@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...> Yeah, sets like that are tough, but I like knowing exactly where you> are because of how they're split up. The toughest set I've ever done> was 90x100. It wasn't that hard physically, but it just killed you> mentally.>
