I see this all different -- I would not even call Paul's approach "less is more". Sure yardage will vary from a 50 sprinter to a Miler --- but the only thing I care about is how much yardage are you able to do AT OR ABOVE RACE PACE. I would guess that Paul is doing quite a bit of that in his 3 or 4 workouts a week. Even if you swim every day for 6K - I bet that you can only go fast 2-3 sets per week - even for a 200 swimmer that may be a total of 2000 yards at race pace (and that's high) - the rest is made up of kicking / pulling and garbage yards. So Paul chooses to leave out the 5,000 yard "recovery workout" the day after pounding out some broken 200s.
One of my first coaches explained it best - the only reason to do long sets in the beginning of the season is to be able to do MORE quality towards the end. The problem is that many coaches used to destroy the swimmers so badly early on, they could never recover to do the quality work - or the coaches did not even do those quality sets in the later part of the season.
Hoch...Exactly!
Guess I just am a "long winded" write always trying to explain and get people worked up at the same time!
Bob...play nice!
Mel...sadly the digs have been almost exclusively via forums and not nearly as often sitting at a bar or in the pool...are you and your lovely Mrs. joining Team AZ in Portland?
John...you take that mentality to an extreme, we all know you binge and purge to maintain your college weight. Or wait, is it just that you make such horrible margs that your throwing up and staying skinny? get you ass back in the pool...your getting fat!
I see this all different -- I would not even call Paul's approach "less is more". Sure yardage will vary from a 50 sprinter to a Miler --- but the only thing I care about is how much yardage are you able to do AT OR ABOVE RACE PACE. I would guess that Paul is doing quite a bit of that in his 3 or 4 workouts a week. Even if you swim every day for 6K - I bet that you can only go fast 2-3 sets per week - even for a 200 swimmer that may be a total of 2000 yards at race pace (and that's high) - the rest is made up of kicking / pulling and garbage yards. So Paul chooses to leave out the 5,000 yard "recovery workout" the day after pounding out some broken 200s.
One of my first coaches explained it best - the only reason to do long sets in the beginning of the season is to be able to do MORE quality towards the end. The problem is that many coaches used to destroy the swimmers so badly early on, they could never recover to do the quality work - or the coaches did not even do those quality sets in the later part of the season.
Hoch...Exactly!
Guess I just am a "long winded" write always trying to explain and get people worked up at the same time!
Bob...play nice!
Mel...sadly the digs have been almost exclusively via forums and not nearly as often sitting at a bar or in the pool...are you and your lovely Mrs. joining Team AZ in Portland?
John...you take that mentality to an extreme, we all know you binge and purge to maintain your college weight. Or wait, is it just that you make such horrible margs that your throwing up and staying skinny? get you ass back in the pool...your getting fat!
