Has anyone used any of the strength training plans from this book by David Salo? I had planned to follow this starting in January, but when it came right down to it, the plans seemed nebulous and possibly a bit out of date compared to other plans I had available (non swim specific). So I went with another option for the time being.
Any thoughts, opinions?
I have his Complete Conditioning for Swimming (don't know if it is really the same book). I've used it to complement the weight program I put together based on what my college coach had me do. I was looking more for injury prevention exercises and core training and it was a good book to build with.
I also liked that it had a sample training section based on the Master's calendar that I tweeked based on this year's events and then I also came up with yardage goals as well.
Basically the book has five phases, Preliminary, Training, Competition, Championship and Active Rest.
In Prelim and Active rest it's more maintence and I usually drop the yardage and do wieghts/dry land 1-2 a week.
In Training I have high yardage and Weights/Dryland 3 days a week.
In Competition, I drop the yardage a little and keep weights and dryland to 3 a week.
In Championship, this is really your tapper, so no weights, the dryland is only injury prevention and slowly dropping yardage.
It seemed to work well for the SCM season and we'll see how I do at Nationals in a couple weeks.
I have his Complete Conditioning for Swimming (don't know if it is really the same book). I've used it to complement the weight program I put together based on what my college coach had me do. I was looking more for injury prevention exercises and core training and it was a good book to build with.
I also liked that it had a sample training section based on the Master's calendar that I tweeked based on this year's events and then I also came up with yardage goals as well.
Basically the book has five phases, Preliminary, Training, Competition, Championship and Active Rest.
In Prelim and Active rest it's more maintence and I usually drop the yardage and do wieghts/dry land 1-2 a week.
In Training I have high yardage and Weights/Dryland 3 days a week.
In Competition, I drop the yardage a little and keep weights and dryland to 3 a week.
In Championship, this is really your tapper, so no weights, the dryland is only injury prevention and slowly dropping yardage.
It seemed to work well for the SCM season and we'll see how I do at Nationals in a couple weeks.
