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?
Maybe rtodd or someone else with a track background can enlighten us as to how 45-year-old 400m specialists train?
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This is being discussed elsewhere. Here is a great thread which references the 400m track workout and it's equivalency to the 100m swim. Buried in it is an old iconic article from Clyde Hart (coach of Michael Johnson, Jeremy Wariner and Sanya Richards). It shows how an an elite 46 sec quarter miler might train.
It was once thought that the quarter mile was 90% anaerobic and 10% aerobic. Scientific research has flipped that and found a rather large aerobic component.
Therefore an aerobic component is necessary for sprinters not only for the race but also to assist in the recovery of repeats during speed endurance workouts. As the season progresses, the workouts become shorter and more intense.
What shocked me most about switching to swimming was the short rest.....why do swimmers do that? I used to rest 2-3 minutes, sometimes 8-10 for full recovery.
Maybe rtodd or someone else with a track background can enlighten us as to how 45-year-old 400m specialists train?
www.theraceclub.net/.../viewtopic.php
This is being discussed elsewhere. Here is a great thread which references the 400m track workout and it's equivalency to the 100m swim. Buried in it is an old iconic article from Clyde Hart (coach of Michael Johnson, Jeremy Wariner and Sanya Richards). It shows how an an elite 46 sec quarter miler might train.
It was once thought that the quarter mile was 90% anaerobic and 10% aerobic. Scientific research has flipped that and found a rather large aerobic component.
Therefore an aerobic component is necessary for sprinters not only for the race but also to assist in the recovery of repeats during speed endurance workouts. As the season progresses, the workouts become shorter and more intense.
What shocked me most about switching to swimming was the short rest.....why do swimmers do that? I used to rest 2-3 minutes, sometimes 8-10 for full recovery.
