There was some confusion over the previous poll "What is your favorite stroke?", as the word "favorite" can be interpreted many different ways. For example, someone may think it's his/her favorite because it's most graceful and likes to watch this stroke the most, but he/she may not necessarily swim this stroke.
So this is the new poll.
Please only select the stroke you PERSONALLY train and spend most time swimming (and thinking about).
Originally posted by swiminton
Honestly, neither you nor Kirk is a sprinter, so you shouldn't have assumed that sprint training is the same as distance training and tried to give advice on something you knew little about.
This is a ridiculous and offensive statment. What makes you think we don't know how sprinters train? It's not like we're cloistered off in some separate pool where only distance swimmers are allowed.
For some reason it seems like you think that a 2000 yard warmup means a straight 2000 at a slow pace, and this isn't what any of us (or at least me) is advocating. As both Matthias and the workouts I linked from Bob Bowman suggest warmups can and do include some longer swimming, shorter swimming including limited amounts of faster swimming, pulling, kicking, etc.
I'll also point out that the section of Breakthrough Swimming you reference is discussing warmup before a meet, not necessarily in a training session. Also, Colwin does advocate a 20-45 minute warmup which would be around 1300-3000 yards for a typical swimmer. You poo-pooed the notion of doing 20 minutes of warmup earlier in the thread, now all of a sudden you're quoting Colwin who suggests 20 minutes as a minimum!
Originally posted by swiminton
Honestly, neither you nor Kirk is a sprinter, so you shouldn't have assumed that sprint training is the same as distance training and tried to give advice on something you knew little about.
This is a ridiculous and offensive statment. What makes you think we don't know how sprinters train? It's not like we're cloistered off in some separate pool where only distance swimmers are allowed.
For some reason it seems like you think that a 2000 yard warmup means a straight 2000 at a slow pace, and this isn't what any of us (or at least me) is advocating. As both Matthias and the workouts I linked from Bob Bowman suggest warmups can and do include some longer swimming, shorter swimming including limited amounts of faster swimming, pulling, kicking, etc.
I'll also point out that the section of Breakthrough Swimming you reference is discussing warmup before a meet, not necessarily in a training session. Also, Colwin does advocate a 20-45 minute warmup which would be around 1300-3000 yards for a typical swimmer. You poo-pooed the notion of doing 20 minutes of warmup earlier in the thread, now all of a sudden you're quoting Colwin who suggests 20 minutes as a minimum!
