Onderwerp: Drills vs Duur
Een paar mooie tips van Kevin Koskella, omdat de meeste triatleten vaak te weinig drills doen en te veel meters zwemmen. Hier 2 stukjes:
Practice drills or build endurance?
What should your focus in swimming be?
It really depends on what level swimmer you are.
If you’re:
-A new swimmer
-Still swimming flat in the water with no hip rotation
or
-Plateauing or having a tough time making gains
then I would recommend 90-100% of your time spent in the water to be practicing drills! It sounds extreme, but if you want to make significant improvements in the water, you have to make some short-term sacrifices to make bigger gains in the long run.
This massive amount of drills isn’t meant to last forever. True beginners will likely have to keep drill work at a high level for several weeks. More advanced swimmers may just need a few days of intensive drill work to get past a hurdle. Think of it more as a “boot camp” for your swim stroke.
As you begin to improve, you can start backing off on the drills and start adding on more yardage and endurance work. Never let go of drills altogether, there are benefits to doing the more advanced swimming drills even if you are Michael Phelps!
I recommend even if you have your swim completely handled to continue doing about 10-15% of your workout as drills.
Here's an example of a three-phase, 12-week beginner's plan for building swimming volume. It is best suited to triathletes preparing for Olympic-distance events.
Weeks 1 to 4: Gradually decrease drills from 80 percent of your yardage to 20 percent. Gradually increase yardage from 1,200 to 2,200 per workout.
Weeks 5 to 10: Keep drills at 20 percent of your yardage. Gradually increase yardage from 2,200 to 3,200 per workout.
Weeks 11 to 12: Taper. Increase drills to about 30 percent of your workout. Decrease yardage to about 2,000 per workout before your race.
Again, each athlete is a little different in terms of the total volume and rate of volume change that work best. The emphasis should be on technique first.