Getting ready to begin my L1 plan for my HIM race this year. Have been doing a L1 maintenance plan and have looked at the tri plan. I’d like to increase my swim volume. I get that swim gains are fairly insignificant in the total picture but it’s the 1 phase where I’m a top 10 maybe 5 age grouper so a great swim is a priority for me.
I plan on adding a 4th swim workout to each week varying the workout to maintain the 80/20 ratio. With respect to the workouts in the plan, can I simply pick another plan from the workout in the same category to increase yardage a bit. Say if the plan has a SCI1 can I simply choose any of the other SCI workouts to add, say, another 500 yards to the day? Do I need to try to keep the workout similar to what’s in the plan. Using the SCI1 example. If the main set is 5×100, should I sub an SCI2 with a similar 5×100 main or is it OK to replace it with a SCI8 with a 5X200 main.
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