Resting Heart Rate
lexlomax
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I have been doing a bit more distance lately in preparation for the zurich swim in August. My sets are normally a 25km in the pool followed by a 10 to 15km set the next day, so am averaging close to 100km per week. As a result, I guess I am getting fitter, but wanted to know if my resting heart rate is abnormal? I am currently sitting on between 38 to 40 beats per minute. Is this normal? Would like to get a poll going for other people who are reasonably fit and doing distance to double check that I don't have some sort of condition that is dropping my heart rate to this level.
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It's been a couple years, but I remember the initial chapters contained rather enlightening information on heart rate data in athletes. Worth their read for that, but the bulk of the remaining chapters were rather banal.
On another topic: looking forward to any write-up you don on the Chinmoy swim. That's on my marathon swim bucket list.
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I will do a write up on Chimnoy. Mongoose, not a problem, however my approach is completely abnormal and almost certainly not best practice and not to be heeded!
I split my training sessions to intervals of 5K which are swum without stoping. These 5km are split into 5x100s, which each 100m having a different focus.
1st 100: Focus on my buoyancy in the water making sure I have good position in the water
2nd 100: Focus on perfect rotation
3rd 100: Focus on perfect kicking
4th 100: Focus on perfect buoyancy, rotation and kicking at the same time
5th 100: Focus on breathing, buoyancy, rotation and kicking all that same time but swimming at a fast pace.
I will be breathless after the 5th, so as I enter this sequence again I will slow down for the first 50 to settle myself again into my routine. (I found that i swim faster if I shock my body every fifth set, rather then maintaining a constant pace throughout)
After 5km, I stop to rehydrate (which I base on a feeling of thirst only) with gatorade. I have found that I only need to eat snakes (ie soft, chewey lollies) and I don't need much. For example, on tuesday, I did a 30km session in the pool and here is what I consumed:
4 x 500ml gatorade
1 x 300gm of snakes
I rest for 5 minutes after each 5km.
I used to eat and drink much more than this, however I don't thinks it is necessary and just makes me feel bloated. After a 30km set, I just settle back into a easy 10km set the next day for recovery.
Am still really slow for a 30km set...sitting on 1.43 per 100, however, now that I have the distance variable constant, am now focusing on incrementally dropping my pace each training session (very small change each time) and would like to get to 1.35 per 100...let's see though...probably unrealistic.
Anyway, thanks again...this forum has been a real eyeopener for me and everyone is so helpful.
I haven't yet done a 5km pool swim so aiming to get there soon. I found the kitchen sink set that someone posted so going to try that out
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I'm looking forward to being part of a (slow) pair in a future La Tuque 24-hour marathon swim!
We're all just carbon, water, starlight, oxygen and dreams
We're all just carbon, water, starlight, oxygen and dreams