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 have any problem with this in theory. I don't do sets anymore that aren't race pace.
However, (1) I can't imagine doing UST every single day -- boredom; (2) I am not giving up equipment that helps make me fast (fins, chute) -- why does he dislike equipment? because it takes away from race pace efforts? (3) I don't think a steady diet of UST is a substitute for pure speed training for sprinters; and (4) if you don't do rehearsal swims, how will you know how to pace yourself in a race? I also disagree with his quoted statement that "single-energy specific training sets are irrelevant activities for influencing racing in a positive manner."
Skip, I do sets with intervals such as:
10 x 25 burst + cruise (12.5 or 15 with fins) @ 1:00
8 x (25 AFAP + 75 EZ) @ 3:00
5 x 50 AFAP @ 5-6:00
broken 100s @ 8-10:00
Sometimes I don't use any intervals, and just do AFAP efforts with lots of recovery swimming.
I do drills in warm up and on my recovery days. However, unlike Solar Energy, I can certainly imagine swimming without single arm drills. :)
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 have any problem with this in theory. I don't do sets anymore that aren't race pace.
However, (1) I can't imagine doing UST every single day -- boredom; (2) I am not giving up equipment that helps make me fast (fins, chute) -- why does he dislike equipment? because it takes away from race pace efforts? (3) I don't think a steady diet of UST is a substitute for pure speed training for sprinters; and (4) if you don't do rehearsal swims, how will you know how to pace yourself in a race? I also disagree with his quoted statement that "single-energy specific training sets are irrelevant activities for influencing racing in a positive manner."
Skip, I do sets with intervals such as:
10 x 25 burst + cruise (12.5 or 15 with fins) @ 1:00
8 x (25 AFAP + 75 EZ) @ 3:00
5 x 50 AFAP @ 5-6:00
broken 100s @ 8-10:00
Sometimes I don't use any intervals, and just do AFAP efforts with lots of recovery swimming.
I do drills in warm up and on my recovery days. However, unlike Solar Energy, I can certainly imagine swimming without single arm drills. :)
