Reduce number of intensity levels
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Tandis Morgan
Reduce the number of levels/colors associated with the intensity of a set/rep to 3 or 4 max. I can never remember how fast I’m supposed to be swimming when it says moderate vs. endurance vs. best average or threshold vs. race pace vs. sprint. Too many levels! I can’t look it up mid-workout, and I can’t ever remember. Ideally blue = easy, yellow = moderate, and red = all out race pace. You could probably throw an orange in too to mean fast but not all out.
“Best average” is not an intensity level, it is an instruction on how to swim the set. The intensity level is “fast.” The instruction (which should scroll so I can read the entire thing on my watch) should explain “swim as fast as possible while maintaining a consistent pace across all reps.”
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Suzanne
I agree and would vote for 4 intensity levels - easy, moderate, fast, race pace. Separate instructions on pace control - best average, negative split, etc.
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Louise Murray 🏴
I agree too
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Kevin Noah
I do not believe you're required to swim at these intensity levels. It's just a guide if you forget or don't want to do it. Just ignore it. And you also can edit the sets before you swim them and change the intensity level to whatever you want.
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Abelardo Campañá
I cannot agree more with this. In my mind I only have 3 levels that I can conciously swim at and that is easy, moderate and fast
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Thomas Bata
Fully agree