My latest one I stumbled upon this morning at the lake.  I’m calling it the three day reset rule.  It’s happened a few times in the past but today I put together all the pieces.  Thursday of last week I think i reached my saturation point with hard efforts and had a really awful swim session.  I felt uncoordinated, lethargic, unresponsive and just shitty.  So, no swimming since Thursday and today felt really good again.  I’ve tried it both ways, push through it, get up friday do a pull set, saturday do a technical session, get in, keep the feel, plug away but it seems to take 10-14 days to actually get back to a place that feels decent.  So this time, no swimming for 3 days.  I have that luxury on account of swimming not really being that big a deal in long distance so it’s an interesting experiment.

It may not hold true for everyone but for me, 3 days seems to be just the right amount of time to hit the reset button in my nervous system.  Obviously this is a rarity and can only be executed when absolutely necessary.  I’ve experienced the same thing running.