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to follow this starting in January, but when it came right down to it, the plans seemed nebulous and possibly a bit out of date compared to other plans I had available (non swim specific).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?
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Why would you use a strength metric for overtraining instead of one that is more directly related to swim performance, such as performance on test sets or in-season meets? Or the ability to recover between hard efforts?
Because when you initially introduce lifting, you can get a performance hit in the water due to adaptation. A lot of swimmers would panic about pool performance indicators and quit, totally missing the point.
Why would you use a strength metric for overtraining instead of one that is more directly related to swim performance, such as performance on test sets or in-season meets? Or the ability to recover between hard efforts?
Because when you initially introduce lifting, you can get a performance hit in the water due to adaptation. A lot of swimmers would panic about pool performance indicators and quit, totally missing the point.
