Jason Lezak

My recollection is reading a story in Swimming World about a coach who thought about 3,000 per workout was all that was needed and went on to describe how he trained his swimmers in this manner. Was this Salo or someone else? If you had limited time in the pool 3,000/workout could work. 1500 of warming up, drillls, kicking, pulling, 1000 distance set, 500 sprint set, cooldown

I hate to plug it, but it's on the topic so... You should tune in to the episode of Deck Pass with Jason as our guest. We discuss his training yardage as well as his training alone. On another note, I've talked many times with Jason about his training philosophy, and he's really on par, I think. With him it's all about quality, but he also derives much of his talent from what he does outside of the pool. He lives his training with everything he does throughout the day dedicated in some way toward making him a better athlete. I'm a big fan!

I want to add to what Fort said about speedwork. In my opinion speedwork is necessary for all distances, it's just that the pace and the distance for the repeats may be different. It just seems obvious that if you don't train the body at race pace you can't really expect it to happen on race day. And to do race pace, you just may have to cut out some of the overall yardage. My :2cents: .

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. that is correct. But he swims quality yards. If he bumped up his yardage he would get slower.

I have heard something similar but can't say for sure. Perhaps his workouts are largely sprint based...lots of maximum effort with short rest intervals.

He is a sprinter. He doesn't need to train that much. Besides, whatever he is doing is working. Let's hope that he can shine in the individual 100 free this time.

Lezak never left the scene and he's always been in the top 5 sprinters in the US for the past decade or so, give or take. Let's go back to analyzing Kitajima's performance that tj has frozen on microfiche in his deep freezer so we can whine about that some more.

so a question: jason is old (30 something) ;trains low yardage. self coached. where is the outrage? where are the accusations? where is the charge that he is making a mockery of every usas and div 1 program in the country?

Dave, you have it wrong....nobody else has ever done this so it must be PEDs:mooning:

Dave, you have it wrong....nobody else has ever done this so it must be PEDs:mooning: must be. some posters are being awfully quiet.