Originally posted by craiglll@yahoo.com
I saw Inge when she was training in the US. She did some sets with sweatshirt, blue jeans and tennis shoes. that's how she got her muscles.
I beg to differ on that point. I coached the Masters group at the same facility where Coach Paul Bergen was training Inky, and they rarely did that. I observed the group's progress for 30 months starting in September, 1998, and going through the Sydney Olympics. The female swimmers in Bergen's program typically swim with tank T-shirts under their suits. They sometimes swim with sneakers, but not as often. They barely ever swim with sweatshirts and blue jeans.
Personally, I feel Inky's incredible dryland routine has everything to do with her physique. Coach Paul Bergen is well known for his challenging and creative approach to swim training, technique, and dryland. The dryland routine includes a fair amount of rope climbing, and a healthy dose of running.
Side note: In 2000, very few people understood why Inky improved so dramatically, and they drew all kinds of conclusions. Even though I worked at the same pool and saw most of the swim sessions, I was skeptical, too.
I hadn't visited any of the group's dryland training sessions until last summer, when I was writing a feature for Swimming Technique about Windmill Freestyle. At that point, I learned a lot more about the type of dryland training she had done, along with the incredible technical developments in her freestyle and butterfly. Not only was it a lot easier to see why she became so fit, but it erased any doubts in my mind about how she achieved her success -- legitimately -- through hard work and technical innovation.
IMHO, some of the comments in this forum, and elsewhere, are terribly misinformed and unfair.
Originally posted by craiglll@yahoo.com
I saw Inge when she was training in the US. She did some sets with sweatshirt, blue jeans and tennis shoes. that's how she got her muscles.
I beg to differ on that point. I coached the Masters group at the same facility where Coach Paul Bergen was training Inky, and they rarely did that. I observed the group's progress for 30 months starting in September, 1998, and going through the Sydney Olympics. The female swimmers in Bergen's program typically swim with tank T-shirts under their suits. They sometimes swim with sneakers, but not as often. They barely ever swim with sweatshirts and blue jeans.
Personally, I feel Inky's incredible dryland routine has everything to do with her physique. Coach Paul Bergen is well known for his challenging and creative approach to swim training, technique, and dryland. The dryland routine includes a fair amount of rope climbing, and a healthy dose of running.
Side note: In 2000, very few people understood why Inky improved so dramatically, and they drew all kinds of conclusions. Even though I worked at the same pool and saw most of the swim sessions, I was skeptical, too.
I hadn't visited any of the group's dryland training sessions until last summer, when I was writing a feature for Swimming Technique about Windmill Freestyle. At that point, I learned a lot more about the type of dryland training she had done, along with the incredible technical developments in her freestyle and butterfly. Not only was it a lot easier to see why she became so fit, but it erased any doubts in my mind about how she achieved her success -- legitimately -- through hard work and technical innovation.
IMHO, some of the comments in this forum, and elsewhere, are terribly misinformed and unfair.
