I agree with what both of you guys have to say.
It's just my observation that some swimmers, human nature being what it is, are always looking for an easy alternative route to glory.
If something trendy comes along and appears to offer this, it can be easy to pay special attention to the easy-appearing part (be this Popov's famous slow motion swimming or Rushall's 7.5 yard sprints) and less attention to the rest of their recommended protocols.
Anyone who swims meets and gives all out efforts to a couple events every day for four days in a row knows how utterly exhausting this becomes. I am absolutely in favor of race pace swimmiing, and I am equally in favor of working on technique (though I agree with an earlier poster who said that sprint freestyle is a different stroke from distance freestyle, so it's hard for me to see how slow motion swimming can help ingrain sprint technique all that effectively.)
In any event, I want to be like Popov and I want to be like Rich, and I will do what I can to emulate both of my idols!
Do I understand your assumption correct that this type of training is easy to do and something for a training minimalist? I got pretty exhausted from it.
I agree with what both of you guys have to say.
It's just my observation that some swimmers, human nature being what it is, are always looking for an easy alternative route to glory.
If something trendy comes along and appears to offer this, it can be easy to pay special attention to the easy-appearing part (be this Popov's famous slow motion swimming or Rushall's 7.5 yard sprints) and less attention to the rest of their recommended protocols.
Anyone who swims meets and gives all out efforts to a couple events every day for four days in a row knows how utterly exhausting this becomes. I am absolutely in favor of race pace swimmiing, and I am equally in favor of working on technique (though I agree with an earlier poster who said that sprint freestyle is a different stroke from distance freestyle, so it's hard for me to see how slow motion swimming can help ingrain sprint technique all that effectively.)
In any event, I want to be like Popov and I want to be like Rich, and I will do what I can to emulate both of my idols!
Do I understand your assumption correct that this type of training is easy to do and something for a training minimalist? I got pretty exhausted from it.
