If I understand well why Rushall published this paper, I don't think it is to motivate people to abandon a balanced approach in favor of too much focus on UST.
Not so sure about that. I'd summarize his position as "too many people are training to be really good trainers, when the goal should be to be the best racer." Rushall's opinion seems to be that anything other than race-paced training is suboptimal. You might not be truly "wasting your time" by doing long aerobic sets, but you could get more bang for the buck by doing a race-paced set instead.
edit: I think this quote sums it up
This presentation justifies ultra-short training at race-pace as being the best and only avenue for
physical work to significantly improve race performances in serious pool swimmers. While other
forms of training are possible, the more those forms deviate from replicating the energy supply
and biomechanics demanded of every swimmer's racing intentions, the less beneficial they will
be. Ultra-short training at race-pace is deemed to be relevant physical training while all other
training forms contain varying degrees of irrelevancy.
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'm with you. These workouts look brutal to me if you're really doing them the way they are meant to be done.
If I understand well why Rushall published this paper, I don't think it is to motivate people to abandon a balanced approach in favor of too much focus on UST.
Not so sure about that. I'd summarize his position as "too many people are training to be really good trainers, when the goal should be to be the best racer." Rushall's opinion seems to be that anything other than race-paced training is suboptimal. You might not be truly "wasting your time" by doing long aerobic sets, but you could get more bang for the buck by doing a race-paced set instead.
edit: I think this quote sums it up
This presentation justifies ultra-short training at race-pace as being the best and only avenue for
physical work to significantly improve race performances in serious pool swimmers. While other
forms of training are possible, the more those forms deviate from replicating the energy supply
and biomechanics demanded of every swimmer's racing intentions, the less beneficial they will
be. Ultra-short training at race-pace is deemed to be relevant physical training while all other
training forms contain varying degrees of irrelevancy.
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'm with you. These workouts look brutal to me if you're really doing them the way they are meant to be done.
