By this you mean that your rest does not allow for the aerobic system to fully recover right? Because anaerobic work pretty much requires the aerobic system to be at 100%.
1. Rushall is a professor, not a swim coach. He doesn't have to deal with boredom... or um... he is the producer of bor... :bolt:
2. He dislikes equipment because it has been show statistically to not improve performance, and thus a waste of time. He is not a coach and he has not studied non-elite swimmers. He doesn't have to keep swimmers engaged (the primary driver to toys) and he hasn't studied swimmers who can't achieve near competition speed at near competition distance.
3. I agree.
4. He is not against rehearsal swims. I would have to dig through his 8 million papers to find the details but he is pro racing and pro frequent shave and taper meets or the equivalent and anti trainForOneMeetAYear.
Since he is not a coach, he does not have to worry about keeping swimming interesting
1. Rushall coached international level swimmers before he retired. He consults with a number of swim clubs, particularly in Australia.
2. He discourages the use of equipment because they violate the most fundamental principle of adaptation to training in sports, the principle of specificity. Not only is it not productive work, it confuses the good motor patterns.
Perhaps there are ways to engage swimmers without the use of toys? Perhaps video feedback work (which few coaches seem to have time for) or mental skills training would be engaging?
3. What is missing from USRP for "speed training?"
4. "If you don't do rehearsal swims, how do you learn to pace for race"... that's the whole point of USRP... you learn to know by FEEL what, say, "1.5 m/s" feels like. USRP will groove that pattern more consistently than something like 6 x 100 free on 3 min (one type of "sprinter set") or 2x "all out free rehearsal swim".
That's it for me for this morning. Feel free to put up more questions.
By this you mean that your rest does not allow for the aerobic system to fully recover right? Because anaerobic work pretty much requires the aerobic system to be at 100%.
1. Rushall is a professor, not a swim coach. He doesn't have to deal with boredom... or um... he is the producer of bor... :bolt:
2. He dislikes equipment because it has been show statistically to not improve performance, and thus a waste of time. He is not a coach and he has not studied non-elite swimmers. He doesn't have to keep swimmers engaged (the primary driver to toys) and he hasn't studied swimmers who can't achieve near competition speed at near competition distance.
3. I agree.
4. He is not against rehearsal swims. I would have to dig through his 8 million papers to find the details but he is pro racing and pro frequent shave and taper meets or the equivalent and anti trainForOneMeetAYear.
Since he is not a coach, he does not have to worry about keeping swimming interesting
1. Rushall coached international level swimmers before he retired. He consults with a number of swim clubs, particularly in Australia.
2. He discourages the use of equipment because they violate the most fundamental principle of adaptation to training in sports, the principle of specificity. Not only is it not productive work, it confuses the good motor patterns.
Perhaps there are ways to engage swimmers without the use of toys? Perhaps video feedback work (which few coaches seem to have time for) or mental skills training would be engaging?
3. What is missing from USRP for "speed training?"
4. "If you don't do rehearsal swims, how do you learn to pace for race"... that's the whole point of USRP... you learn to know by FEEL what, say, "1.5 m/s" feels like. USRP will groove that pattern more consistently than something like 6 x 100 free on 3 min (one type of "sprinter set") or 2x "all out free rehearsal swim".
That's it for me for this morning. Feel free to put up more questions.
