-- The pendulum seems to be swinging against over-training/over-distance, which IMO is mostly a good thing, but this method has produced a lot of very very fast swimmers (as well as a lot of shoulder injuries and burned out swimmers). It isn't complete junk.
It's also worth noting that most of the swimmers who have success with low-yardage training put in some serious yardage when they were younger. I know Paul Smith did. I'm doing very short workouts now, but I built most of my speed in high school, when I was swimming a lot of slow 200s every day.
-- The pendulum seems to be swinging against over-training/over-distance, which IMO is mostly a good thing, but this method has produced a lot of very very fast swimmers (as well as a lot of shoulder injuries and burned out swimmers). It isn't complete junk.
It's also worth noting that most of the swimmers who have success with low-yardage training put in some serious yardage when they were younger. I know Paul Smith did. I'm doing very short workouts now, but I built most of my speed in high school, when I was swimming a lot of slow 200s every day.
