Swim Plan mods for slower swimmers?
I seem to recall a discussion (not sure if in Blog, Wiki, or podcast?) that addressed the issue of slower swimmers using the HIM plans. The net of the discussion was somthing like this:
Yes, the swim workouts often cover greater than 1.2 miles. That's intentional. If you can accomplish the entire workout as written within an hour at the pool, do the whole workout as written. If however you are a slower swimmer and it would take you greater than 1 hour to do the whole written workout, then just pick one of the two Main Sets and do that.
Well that's what I remember, but the plans have 3 main sets, so I must be remembering incorrectly. I can't find the info that boils this down for us slower swimmers. Can someone point me to it?
Thanks!
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Yes, that sounds about right.
Most everyone has 45' to an hour to swim. I've just called every swim an hour...because I had to put something there and I have no way of predicting how long it will take Timmy vs Sally to complete a swim workout...so I just call it an hour. The hour given in the swim workout is not a goal at all.
So we trust you to do the smart guy/gal thing and adjust the workouts to fit the time it's going to take you to do it vs the time you avaible to swim. When in doubt, cut out the easy swimming and keep the hard swimming. So, for example, if MS1 is a faster 100's and 50's and MS2 is longer intervals (200+), I'd like to see you keep the faster stuff and shorten the longer stuff.
Thanks Rich and Nemo — as a 38 min HIM swimmer, this is very helpful advice. I will modify my workouts to suit.
Cheers
Peter