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March, 2010
How much training is right for me (or how cake baking can help you swim faster!!!)
Without doubt the toughest question in swimming to answer is “How much training is right for me?”
Coming up with the right swimming training program has often been described as being a bit like making a cake.
When you make a cake, you follow a recipe which specifies how much flour, how much butter, how much milk, how many eggs, how long to bake in the oven, what temperature to set the oven for – yummy I can almost taste it now!
If you add too much butter, no eggs and five pounds of flour more than the recipe needs, then cook it for three hours at a high temperature, you get a mess more like a brick than a dessert!
Training is a mix of the right things done at the right time in the right quantities.
It all starts with your training plan – your “recipe” for success. Read more
March 1, 2010 | 4 Comments
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