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 think you guys are making a very clear point that Rushall is dismissing most of these activities as being potentially good enough to influence performances at race pace. That said, let us put it this way.
Would you be kind enough to point to volume cut recommendation? Overall that is? I'm being very sincere here. Could you find me a place in the document where he'd recommend say, a volume of 24k per week for distance swimmers, as 2500 of main set + 1.5 kilo of irrelevant stuff (4k * 6 times per week) to beat Sun Yang?
Could you find a place where he'd recommend a volume cut for a mid distance, say.... 1500 + 1500 = 3k * 6 = 18k per week to beat Phelps over the 400m IM?
If this is really what you guys believe, no wonder why you'd be skeptical about his thoughts.
If you do find these mentions, I'd like to know. Cause I'm simply going to put the jerk on my black list and forget about this crap. Good luck to any head coach trying to prepare a distance swimmer for a world class qualification (even the Worlds Aquatics) on 24k per week.
I made clear in my very first post, I hate Rushall, and part of the reason why is that he's making several people wasting considerable time...
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. That's 1k * 6 times per week = 6kilo of significant work for preparing to beat the best sprinters in the world.... So to me, if it's really what he meant, he has no point at all. 2h per day * 6 = 12h * 52 = 624h of training for the year, that's still under Bompa's recommandation for reaching fair national level, regarless of the sport (since Bompa's work encompass all sports). In fact, this schedule is that of a serious Master Swimmer.
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 think you guys are making a very clear point that Rushall is dismissing most of these activities as being potentially good enough to influence performances at race pace. That said, let us put it this way.
Would you be kind enough to point to volume cut recommendation? Overall that is? I'm being very sincere here. Could you find me a place in the document where he'd recommend say, a volume of 24k per week for distance swimmers, as 2500 of main set + 1.5 kilo of irrelevant stuff (4k * 6 times per week) to beat Sun Yang?
Could you find a place where he'd recommend a volume cut for a mid distance, say.... 1500 + 1500 = 3k * 6 = 18k per week to beat Phelps over the 400m IM?
If this is really what you guys believe, no wonder why you'd be skeptical about his thoughts.
If you do find these mentions, I'd like to know. Cause I'm simply going to put the jerk on my black list and forget about this crap. Good luck to any head coach trying to prepare a distance swimmer for a world class qualification (even the Worlds Aquatics) on 24k per week.
I made clear in my very first post, I hate Rushall, and part of the reason why is that he's making several people wasting considerable time...
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. That's 1k * 6 times per week = 6kilo of significant work for preparing to beat the best sprinters in the world.... So to me, if it's really what he meant, he has no point at all. 2h per day * 6 = 12h * 52 = 624h of training for the year, that's still under Bompa's recommandation for reaching fair national level, regarless of the sport (since Bompa's work encompass all sports). In fact, this schedule is that of a serious Master Swimmer.
