As I crawled back into the pool today fat and out of shape, I wondered: Don't sprinters need some minimal aerobic work? I see that Ande is doing none whatsoever and Paul advises not "fighting fat" in the pool. I do a lot of race pace training and cross training. But still, is just a little aerobic work called for? I can tell I don't need any for 50s, but my 100s could use a little something. I don't think I have the substantial swimming aerobic base that people like Ande have because I was out of the pool for so many years .. So I'm either taking my 100s out too slow for fear of dying or actually dying. Does aerobic work help counter this? Or do I need more lactate work such as doing 100s with huge amounts of rest?
the point is
if you don't train properly for sprints
you won't achieve your potential
you might be able to come close
but you could lose a several 10th's of a second
Do you think "sprints" include both 50s and 100s? I always thought they did, although I feel like the 100 fly is an endurance event, especially in meters. I always though of 50s specialists like Jazz as "drop dead sprinters." (Jazz needs to come give Warren some competition in the "Battle of the Drop Dead Sprinters" at the GMU Sprint Classic!)
So if one does some aerobic work, do you think that's "not training properly?"
I now where I'm losing several tenths of a second right off the bat -- whimpy weight lifting.
the point is
if you don't train properly for sprints
you won't achieve your potential
you might be able to come close
but you could lose a several 10th's of a second
Do you think "sprints" include both 50s and 100s? I always thought they did, although I feel like the 100 fly is an endurance event, especially in meters. I always though of 50s specialists like Jazz as "drop dead sprinters." (Jazz needs to come give Warren some competition in the "Battle of the Drop Dead Sprinters" at the GMU Sprint Classic!)
So if one does some aerobic work, do you think that's "not training properly?"
I now where I'm losing several tenths of a second right off the bat -- whimpy weight lifting.
