I had a bit of a breakthrough this morning. After doing some reading and learning a little bit more about swim workouts I decided to try something that seemed difficult but turned out to be not so bad. It turns out that the quad muscles use a ton of oxygen and that kicking can actually lessen the quality of the upper body workout when swimming freestyle. So....this morning I dragged my legs only kicking lightly and occasionally for balance. I was able to do the first hundred yards freestyle without a rest lap and was no slower than I was before. I was swimming 100 yards in about 3 minutes this morning and was able to do most of my workout freestyle. I also added 100 yards by adding 2 more 50's. The whole workout was 4X100, 6X50, 4X25 for a total of 800 yards. I think I'm ready to move on to week two of the plan I'm following.
Next Up: Thursday morning I'm planning to move on to week 2 which increases the distance to 900 yards by adding 200 yards non-stop onto the beginning of week 1.
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