Anyone fast with only 1500-2000 yds a day?

Lezak's competition (Nick Brunelli) has a bit of a different theory on training for sprinters.....below is a post from his Race Club blog. Goes to show you.....to each his own! njBrunelli Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 56 Location: tempe Arizona Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 9:53 pm Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Right after the 4-week mark from surgery, I was back in the water kicking. Vertical kicking and kicking on my back keeping my arm fully secured to my body. -6 weeks after surgery I was able to move my shoulder slightly in the water but only light motions and no pulling or recovering over the water. -Around 8 weeks, I was now moving my arm in a swim like motion but I was still not able to pull water. My swimming range of motion for freestyle was about 80 percent. I was having trouble getting on my left side and extending my arm out in front. During this time I was using fins and letting my arm move but not pull water. The Sets I did were all kick dominated. And when I swam I would just swim sets of 200's easy with fins making sure my stroke technique was where it needed to be. -Around 10 weeks I was swimming again and able to use the arm a lot more. My range of motion for freestyle was about 90 percent. This is where I was doing longer swims. An idea would be 300's and 400s just working on stroke technique. This is when I started to explore other strokes, mainly backstroke. 12 weeks out I was swimming full time, but no sprinting. I was working on technique and 200-pace stuff. My backstroke was a good break when my shoulder was getting tired from freestyle. A practice looked like this: 500 warm up 4 x 150 kick on 2:30 desc 4 x 100 kick on 1:45 neg. split 4 x 50 kick on 1min fast 25 under water 25 over water 12 x 75s swim/dr/swim 20 x 50's swim on 1min - all holding 200 pace keeping stroke together 5 x 200's swim on 2:30 - desc to 80% working stroke technique. 1 x 600 swim with fins working stroke tech with fins -About 14 weeks out from surgery, Dec 19th we did this set: Yards set 32 x 50's on 1 min. 1 easy 1 fast from a push Held 23.1 to 22.6 on all the fast ones. -16 weeks on Dec. 27th I was home swimming with BOSS, (Bay and Ocean State Squids) out of Harvard and Brown. I did what the team was doing. Here is the set: Meters set 1 x 800 Back 100 dr/100 swim 1 x 800 Back Desc by 200's 1 x 800 Back fast neg split The last 400 I was 4:45

Lezak's competition (Nick Brunelli) has a bit of a different theory on training for sprinters.....below is a post from his Race Club blog. Goes to show you.....to each his own! njBrunelli Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 56 Location: tempe Arizona Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 9:53 pm Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Right after the 4-week mark from surgery, I was back in the water kicking. Vertical kicking and kicking on my back keeping my arm fully secured to my body. -6 weeks after surgery I was able to move my shoulder slightly in the water but only light motions and no pulling or recovering over the water. -Around 8 weeks, I was now moving my arm in a swim like motion but I was still not able to pull water. My swimming range of motion for freestyle was about 80 percent. I was having trouble getting on my left side and extending my arm out in front. During this time I was using fins and letting my arm move but not pull water. The Sets I did were all kick dominated. And when I swam I would just swim sets of 200's easy with fins making sure my stroke technique was where it needed to be. -Around 10 weeks I was swimming again and able to use the arm a lot more. My range of motion for freestyle was about 90 percent. This is where I was doing longer swims. An idea would be 300's and 400s just working on stroke technique. This is when I started to explore other strokes, mainly backstroke. 12 weeks out I was swimming full time, but no sprinting. I was working on technique and 200-pace stuff. My backstroke was a good break when my shoulder was getting tired from freestyle. A practice looked like this: 500 warm up 4 x 150 kick on 2:30 desc 4 x 100 kick on 1:45 neg. split 4 x 50 kick on 1min fast 25 under water 25 over water 12 x 75s swim/dr/swim 20 x 50's swim on 1min - all holding 200 pace keeping stroke together 5 x 200's swim on 2:30 - desc to 80% working stroke technique. 1 x 600 swim with fins working stroke tech with fins -About 14 weeks out from surgery, Dec 19th we did this set: Yards set 32 x 50's on 1 min. 1 easy 1 fast from a push Held 23.1 to 22.6 on all the fast ones. -16 weeks on Dec. 27th I was home swimming with BOSS, (Bay and Ocean State Squids) out of Harvard and Brown. I did what the team was doing. Here is the set: Meters set 1 x 800 Back 100 dr/100 swim 1 x 800 Back Desc by 200's 1 x 800 Back fast neg split The last 400 I was 4:45