I subscribe to Row360 magazine. This month's edition has an article by the illustrious Terry O'Neill on "Masters Training".
This guy is a legend. The O'Neill 4 minute test...He invented it. He's also behind the interactive plan and marathon plan. What he wrote was this:
The rest of the article outlines 4 "hard" sessions to do per week. One AT session (2x5K). One TR session (8x4' - ouch). One AN session (8x500). And one AL ( 4 sets of (10 strokes on / 10 strokes off x 10) ).What I propose for masters is to drop UT1 and UT2 as a formation of the major part of a training session. They can be used as a link between sessions of very high intensity, or technical sessions where the aim is to deal with technique issues rather than physical improvement. Depending on the water you have available, you may work in time or distance.
The part where I got really confused was his direction if you wanted to do 6 workouts per week. In that case he suggests..
AN, TR, AT, AN, AT, AL
So, I could understand going after this for a few weeks to sharpen for competition, but wouldn't this approach essentially destroy your aerobic endurance?
So very confused.