What stroke do you personally train the most?

Originally posted by Phil Arcuni All organized workouts I have ever been in spent about 1/4 of the time or yardage doing "warmup". As Knelson says, warmup is a variety of strokes, drills, pulling, kicking, distances, and intensities (but never anaerobic or threshold sets.) Whether this is a good training idea is one issue, but the fact of its presence in swimming programs is not debatable. This is precisely true and exactly the point of the current discussion. The article I posted mentions the following: "Nevertheless, the high-volume, low-intensity training model probably remains the most common practice among élite swimmers, with even sprint swimmers focusing on clocking up the kilometres rather than more race pace- specific training. One of reasons for this high-volume bias is that swimmers and coaches believe that swim technique, efficiency through the water and the ‘feel’ of the stroke are optimised by spending many hours in the pool. I have heard swimmers say they do not feel as comfortable in the water and confident about their technique unless they complete high doses of training. " I don't have that long of a swimming history as most of you here do, but it seems that if you have been swimming for years, it should not take 30-40 minutes every time you go to the pool for your body to get into the state. Your body should quickly memorizes what it is supposed to be doing. Another analogy: If you are going on a cycling race for 40 miles, you don't go warm up for 80 miles every time before your race because you body should have already memorized what to do with short warmups. If that's not the case in any other sports, then why do we do it in swimming? Just because everyone else is doing it, does it make it right? I am sure it has its own values for distance swimmers, but I am not convinced that it is also a good idea for short distance swimmers, simply because it doesn't make sense logically.

Originally posted by Phil Arcuni All organized workouts I have ever been in spent about 1/4 of the time or yardage doing "warmup". As Knelson says, warmup is a variety of strokes, drills, pulling, kicking, distances, and intensities (but never anaerobic or threshold sets.) Whether this is a good training idea is one issue, but the fact of its presence in swimming programs is not debatable. This is precisely true and exactly the point of the current discussion. The article I posted mentions the following: "Nevertheless, the high-volume, low-intensity training model probably remains the most common practice among élite swimmers, with even sprint swimmers focusing on clocking up the kilometres rather than more race pace- specific training. One of reasons for this high-volume bias is that swimmers and coaches believe that swim technique, efficiency through the water and the ‘feel’ of the stroke are optimised by spending many hours in the pool. I have heard swimmers say they do not feel as comfortable in the water and confident about their technique unless they complete high doses of training. " I don't have that long of a swimming history as most of you here do, but it seems that if you have been swimming for years, it should not take 30-40 minutes every time you go to the pool for your body to get into the state. Your body should quickly memorizes what it is supposed to be doing. Another analogy: If you are going on a cycling race for 40 miles, you don't go warm up for 80 miles every time before your race because you body should have already memorized what to do with short warmups. If that's not the case in any other sports, then why do we do it in swimming? Just because everyone else is doing it, does it make it right? I am sure it has its own values for distance swimmers, but I am not convinced that it is also a good idea for short distance swimmers, simply because it doesn't make sense logically.