Help! I have some questions regarding cross training?
I'm a high school runner and the Track season is quickly approaching! I only have like 2 months left and need to really step up my training now. I will be doing many events, but right now am focusing on my 1600m. I want to build my endurance (I already have great endurance, but want to strengthen it further), strength (really in need of this) and Lactate Threshold. What are some different swimming workouts I can do for each of these different thigns? Thank you very much, I appreciate anything you have to offer.
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You may be interested in this.I was a high school swim coach, and the track/cross country coach asked to borrow a couple lanes of the pool for some of the time to train the runners, which I agreed to do.
Here is what the track coach had his kids do. He put life preservers on them and had them "run" in the water while they were vertical in the deep part (they really couldn't touch bottom) Oh man! it looked like a good work out, both for strength and endurance. The water provided great resistance. You may want to try it, as it is used the running specific muscles. Give it a go, see what you think!
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I couldn't understand your question well but mainly if you want to improve your endurance by swimming workout you should swim continuously for long distance at But if where your coach i wouldn't include swimming in your training program as you only have 2 months left !! And as you probably know fitness in swimming is much differnt than running fittness ( you should remmember that ) it will only work for you if you hav time but talkin about gain form within 2 months is not gna be easy , so my advice is dont swimm and focus on running !If a person were drunk and they started to hold their breath underwater, wouldn't they drown?
Swimming is very arm and back intensive, so I don't know if that is how you want to train. What you may want to consider doing is very high amounts of kicking (freestyle and breaststroke). In order to build up lower body strength and endurance.How many laps in a 25 yd pool make a mile?
Ok.. To strengthen your endurance in SWIMMING especially, you need to swim a lot...ok now you want to focus on your 1600m run, right? Swimming can help you to build stamina and also your breathing method... Ok my idea of your swimming practise is like this:- warm up swimming for 500m any style
- then swim 8 x 50 m for every 50m below 1min..
- then slow swim for 200m
Do it this everyday i think it is enough for part of swimming then you should continue your running on land...
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