Anyone fast with only 1500-2000 yds a day?

i didn't read your post all the way yesterday paul I thought those were YOUR work out times not nick's and I was thinking crap I've got my work cut out for me even if a swimmer is having success with the short high intensity work outs if they are elite you can be pretty sure at some point in their careers they put in some seriious work ande 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

i didn't read your post all the way yesterday paul I thought those were YOUR work out times not nick's and I was thinking crap I've got my work cut out for me even if a swimmer is having success with the short high intensity work outs if they are elite you can be pretty sure at some point in their careers they put in some seriious work ande 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