F1 + Swimming

Dear community,

in order to get prepared for the swimming exams at the university i have to start with my swim training 2-3 times a week. Now i just don`t know how to integrate this into my F1 schedule properly. Does anyone have any experiences concerning such a combination. Is it reasonable to split F1 throughout 6 days and adding the swim training to one of these days ? I would absolve the swim sessions in the morning and the the F1 work in the evening. I know that every one is an indiviudal and has to figure out for his own whether he is capable of doing such a combination. Anyway i would really appreciate any general advices or suggestions

Thank you in advance !

Cardio work generally meshes just fine with foundation work. What Foundation schedule are you on right now? 

Joshua Slocum said:

Cardio work generally meshes just fine with foundation work. What Foundation schedule are you on right now? 

I´m sorry, i forgot to add that. Until now I`ve done the full F7 three times a week and added 3x H1 in between. But the F7 takes me about 1,75 hours and is quite taxing. That`s why i thought about splitting the F7 days into shorter sessions throughout the week. I plan to do  2 long distance swim workouts with the focus on technique improvement and one harder sprint session.

Spliting F7 in half is perfectly reasonable if you've been successfully doing it for a while. I'd recommend initially dropping the volume a bit when you first add in the swim sessions. Something like this:

Monday: F_A and long distance swimming

Tuesday: H1, F_B

Wednesday: long distance swimming

Thurdsay: F_A

Friday: H1, F_B and swimming sprints

Saturday: H1

Once you've been doing that for a couple weeks, if you feel like you can handle it, add in another day of F_A and F_B. (Where F_A and F_B are two halves of F7).

Thank you very much for your advice Joshua. I´ll give this workout plan a try !