Throughout this paper, mentions were made of irrelevant swimming activities that do not relate to or could improve race performance. They are most of what is commonly seen in competitive swimming pools today. Drills, land-training, pool-use equipment (e.g., bands, pull-buoys, paddles, snorkels, etc.), and single-energy specific training sets are irrelevant activities for influencing racing in a positive manner.
I believe Kirk's interpretation is correct. Rushall is promoting a single training session a day, a significant decrease in total yardage and an elimination of all sets that don't relate directly to racing or warm up/recovery.
I don't think you can go over 1 full kilo of work (working time, not resting volume) at UTS. Say you go for 12.5m, that means 80 times. Say that you keep the rest distance = it sums up to 2k session, which again there leaves at least 1 kilo for warming up, 500k for technique maybe and 500m for cool down for a total of 4k in total. Note that the hard work only represents a quarter of the overall mileage.
That would be 1k of work at the target 50 race pace. A non-UTS workout would have 0 yards at such a pace. Rushall is saying that race pace work is really all that should count. Warm up, cool down, recovery, whatever yardage doesn't need to be measured, it is extraneous.
He has a point, effort matters more than distance, but distance is the most commonly tracked and discussed.
Throughout this paper, mentions were made of irrelevant swimming activities that do not relate to or could improve race performance. They are most of what is commonly seen in competitive swimming pools today. Drills, land-training, pool-use equipment (e.g., bands, pull-buoys, paddles, snorkels, etc.), and single-energy specific training sets are irrelevant activities for influencing racing in a positive manner.
I believe Kirk's interpretation is correct. Rushall is promoting a single training session a day, a significant decrease in total yardage and an elimination of all sets that don't relate directly to racing or warm up/recovery.
I don't think you can go over 1 full kilo of work (working time, not resting volume) at UTS. Say you go for 12.5m, that means 80 times. Say that you keep the rest distance = it sums up to 2k session, which again there leaves at least 1 kilo for warming up, 500k for technique maybe and 500m for cool down for a total of 4k in total. Note that the hard work only represents a quarter of the overall mileage.
That would be 1k of work at the target 50 race pace. A non-UTS workout would have 0 yards at such a pace. Rushall is saying that race pace work is really all that should count. Warm up, cool down, recovery, whatever yardage doesn't need to be measured, it is extraneous.
He has a point, effort matters more than distance, but distance is the most commonly tracked and discussed.
