I read somewhere that Jason Lezak only swims 4,000 yds/meters a day. Has anyone else heard this? I don't see how an athlete of his caliber can get by on such little yardage. It seems like if he bumped it up some he could be faster than he already is. I swim more than that and I'm nowhere near as fast as him lol.
Even if Salo's training philosophy works well for distance swimmers it's got to be a hard sell for those who have trained for years doing mega yardage. Mentally it would be very difficult to give up the kind of training you're used to--and has worked in the past--for something so radically different.
Kirk:
That is exactly why there was such an outburst back in 1988/1989 when the articles about High Intensity Training appeared in Swimming World and then the book came out shortly after. A lot of Olympic and NCAA coaches felt that the concepts were to radical and that the minimal mode would not lead to peak performance. Two coaches come to mine that lectured against this type of training. Doc Counsiliman did a presentation at ASCA called the "Oversimplification of Training" where he said that swimming will be headed in the wrong direction if swimmers and coaches adopt this type of training. Dennis Pursley, who was the National Team Director of the USA Team agreed and wrote against this type of training in his articles that followed Salo in Swimming World. I don't know if you were swimming for MSU at the time of this but a lot of swimmers heard a lot about this when it was going on and there were great debates at the time as to what was right. More is bad and less is better. Traditional coaches did not want to hear about this and wanted to stay in there traditional max mode of training.
Even if Salo's training philosophy works well for distance swimmers it's got to be a hard sell for those who have trained for years doing mega yardage. Mentally it would be very difficult to give up the kind of training you're used to--and has worked in the past--for something so radically different.
Kirk:
That is exactly why there was such an outburst back in 1988/1989 when the articles about High Intensity Training appeared in Swimming World and then the book came out shortly after. A lot of Olympic and NCAA coaches felt that the concepts were to radical and that the minimal mode would not lead to peak performance. Two coaches come to mine that lectured against this type of training. Doc Counsiliman did a presentation at ASCA called the "Oversimplification of Training" where he said that swimming will be headed in the wrong direction if swimmers and coaches adopt this type of training. Dennis Pursley, who was the National Team Director of the USA Team agreed and wrote against this type of training in his articles that followed Salo in Swimming World. I don't know if you were swimming for MSU at the time of this but a lot of swimmers heard a lot about this when it was going on and there were great debates at the time as to what was right. More is bad and less is better. Traditional coaches did not want to hear about this and wanted to stay in there traditional max mode of training.
