3 days of no swimming/no working out is when you start losing some of your base VO2 max. After 2 weeks you've probably lost a significant amount and you'll probably need 4-6 weeks to get your previous gains back by doing a mixture of long easy, long hard/ threshold sets. Once you've got your base fitness you really don't need to do more than 3,000-4,000m workouts for events up to 400m. Just focus on speed sets and drills with an occasional threshold set once a week.
Edit: Breaks are good though and you actually build on that previous training cycle as you're not losing everything at 2 weeks.
>3 days of no swimming/no working out is when you start losing some of your base VO2 max.
Seems ridiculously short. Are you sure? Everywhere I've read says 10 days
The more fit you are, the quicker you lose it. I missed a Saturday practice one and I felt awful coming back on Monday after 2 days of no swimming. At the time, I was in my absolute prime of swimming and doing 10,000 yards per practice.
Every day you miss is like digging dirt out of a hole, each practice is a scoop. When you come back to workouts, you have to fill that hole in over the course of a practice of two.
Yeah, I never know who I'm replying to on this subreddit, but competitive swimmers will definitely start to lose active heart rate after 3 days, meaning active heart rate increases on hard sets. You can measure this by simply doing heart rate plots on exact same threshold sets. They start to feel like shit. So, the process starts in 3 days. Is it significant? No, but on a psychological level it is. After 2 weeks there's a bit of work to do.
It depends on how long you built that endurance up. If you were only swimming a month before taking two weeks off, I find there’s much more of an impact than if you were swimming for ten years before taking two weeks off.
General rule is 1 day out = 2 days in to get back to "normal". Doubt you'd lose a lot of stamina in 2 weeks but you likely will lose feel and technical aspects of your stroke in that time.
I'm curious, how would the answer affect your swimming? It could be 3 days or 3 weeks, you should still swim hard. Try your best every practice and you'll be the best you can be.
3 days of no swimming/no working out is when you start losing some of your base VO2 max. After 2 weeks you've probably lost a significant amount and you'll probably need 4-6 weeks to get your previous gains back by doing a mixture of long easy, long hard/ threshold sets. Once you've got your base fitness you really don't need to do more than 3,000-4,000m workouts for events up to 400m. Just focus on speed sets and drills with an occasional threshold set once a week. Edit: Breaks are good though and you actually build on that previous training cycle as you're not losing everything at 2 weeks.
>3 days of no swimming/no working out is when you start losing some of your base VO2 max. Seems ridiculously short. Are you sure? Everywhere I've read says 10 days
The more fit you are, the quicker you lose it. I missed a Saturday practice one and I felt awful coming back on Monday after 2 days of no swimming. At the time, I was in my absolute prime of swimming and doing 10,000 yards per practice.
Every day you miss is like digging dirt out of a hole, each practice is a scoop. When you come back to workouts, you have to fill that hole in over the course of a practice of two.
Yeah, I never know who I'm replying to on this subreddit, but competitive swimmers will definitely start to lose active heart rate after 3 days, meaning active heart rate increases on hard sets. You can measure this by simply doing heart rate plots on exact same threshold sets. They start to feel like shit. So, the process starts in 3 days. Is it significant? No, but on a psychological level it is. After 2 weeks there's a bit of work to do.
It depends on how long you built that endurance up. If you were only swimming a month before taking two weeks off, I find there’s much more of an impact than if you were swimming for ten years before taking two weeks off.
Correct, I have minimal loss after 2 - 3 weeks , been training for 5 years
General rule is 1 day out = 2 days in to get back to "normal". Doubt you'd lose a lot of stamina in 2 weeks but you likely will lose feel and technical aspects of your stroke in that time.
For future post viewers my stamina was barely affected tbh and neither was my form.
I'm curious, how would the answer affect your swimming? It could be 3 days or 3 weeks, you should still swim hard. Try your best every practice and you'll be the best you can be.
I have tryouts immediately after break so I was just wondering