"After sufficient swimmer adaptation to this training format and substance, it can be performed daily resulting in a vastly greater accumulation of relevant training effects than is possible with traditional programming." Brent Rushall
He never says swimmers should train more than once per day, does he?
"Irrelevant training programsare compounded further by a lack of effective coaching in technique (the pedagogy of movement instruction is largely absent in swimming and its coaching education programs) and mental skills training. " Brent Rushall
Yes, but drills are more or less antithetical to his whole position on training since drills are being done at a sub-optimal speed. I believe Rushall would say a skill done at a slow speed isn't going to carry over to race-pace, thus it is not effective. I will admit I'm making an assumption here, too, since he doesn't directly address drills in the paper.
And, for the record, I'm not advocating Rushall's approach. In fact I can't really fathom doing this ultra-short training exclusively, but I'm biased by 20 years of training completely differently.
"After sufficient swimmer adaptation to this training format and substance, it can be performed daily resulting in a vastly greater accumulation of relevant training effects than is possible with traditional programming." Brent Rushall
He never says swimmers should train more than once per day, does he?
"Irrelevant training programsare compounded further by a lack of effective coaching in technique (the pedagogy of movement instruction is largely absent in swimming and its coaching education programs) and mental skills training. " Brent Rushall
Yes, but drills are more or less antithetical to his whole position on training since drills are being done at a sub-optimal speed. I believe Rushall would say a skill done at a slow speed isn't going to carry over to race-pace, thus it is not effective. I will admit I'm making an assumption here, too, since he doesn't directly address drills in the paper.
And, for the record, I'm not advocating Rushall's approach. In fact I can't really fathom doing this ultra-short training exclusively, but I'm biased by 20 years of training completely differently.
