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. I truly truly think you misread or misinterpret his text.
In short, and we could argue about it for 50 more posts, but in short here's what he says:
1. If you have no race pace component to your training, WAKE UP!
2. Swimming is a strange animal, body is horizontal, there's a severe muscle mass bottleneck which means that lactate produce in these regions could more easily shuttle to other areas
3. Based on point 2, Rushall thinks that Lactate Tolerance sets aren't as important as people might think
4. Lactate Tolerence sets (ie Anerobic Capacity sets) tend to be very energy consuming, which prevents being able to perform a lot of mileage at this
5. Let's not forget point 2
6. Half life of most physiological changes that take place whilst training are around 30sec
7. Point 6 means that if you work very hard for short duration, but do not rest for more than 30sec every time, you allow to train: ATP-CP (that's obvious) but also Aerobic metabolism. And since lactate level are still quite high it's assumed (by Rushall) that this component also be addressed
8. In the same time, since Aerobic Metabolism is well activated, it's also assume that this increase the rate of replacement of CP, which means that you'll be using less sugar (glygogen) and therefore able to swim this everey day
What this paper doesn't say is:
Replace all your existing mileage by UST. It just says to replace your QUALITY portion by UST (less AC work, more UST work). And again, if you don't even do Race Pace work, then read (or write on a paper learn it by heart then eat the paper) Rule#1 : If you don't have Quality work in your session (ie race pace work) then WAKE UP
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. I truly truly think you misread or misinterpret his text.
In short, and we could argue about it for 50 more posts, but in short here's what he says:
1. If you have no race pace component to your training, WAKE UP!
2. Swimming is a strange animal, body is horizontal, there's a severe muscle mass bottleneck which means that lactate produce in these regions could more easily shuttle to other areas
3. Based on point 2, Rushall thinks that Lactate Tolerance sets aren't as important as people might think
4. Lactate Tolerence sets (ie Anerobic Capacity sets) tend to be very energy consuming, which prevents being able to perform a lot of mileage at this
5. Let's not forget point 2
6. Half life of most physiological changes that take place whilst training are around 30sec
7. Point 6 means that if you work very hard for short duration, but do not rest for more than 30sec every time, you allow to train: ATP-CP (that's obvious) but also Aerobic metabolism. And since lactate level are still quite high it's assumed (by Rushall) that this component also be addressed
8. In the same time, since Aerobic Metabolism is well activated, it's also assume that this increase the rate of replacement of CP, which means that you'll be using less sugar (glygogen) and therefore able to swim this everey day
What this paper doesn't say is:
Replace all your existing mileage by UST. It just says to replace your QUALITY portion by UST (less AC work, more UST work). And again, if you don't even do Race Pace work, then read (or write on a paper learn it by heart then eat the paper) Rule#1 : If you don't have Quality work in your session (ie race pace work) then WAKE UP
