Phases Of Training

Once you have decided on a challenge to aim for you should adjust your training to focus on peaking for this event. Planning the perfect peak, to coincide with your most important event on the yearly calendar, will enhance your performance. You should plan your various phases back from the event day. The key variables are volume and intensity. The influence of land work, especially strength training, will also sculpt your swimming fitness for a gradual increase on the important day of the event. You must choose when your own big goal performance is to be.

How you structure your training is a matter of preference, but there will probably be greater volume in the general endurance period, followed by a period of moderate to high volume with increased intensity, which is then followed by a period of base endurance, which leaves your body fresh and ready for the event.

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