Much has been discussed on this topic but i wanted to revisit it after watching the track & field championships and remembering debates about how much pool training time swimmers put in relative to a runner competing in the equivalent event (a 400m runner to 100m swimmer).
What got my attention on this again was a recent article in Men's Fitness about Jeremy Wariner, specifically his training week during mid-season:
M= 200's: 8 x 200's two minutes followed by 40 yd sprints w/20 seconds rest
T= 350m: 2 x 350's followed by 1 x 300, one minute rest then a 100m to simulate the end of the race
W= 450m: 2 x 450's each under 1:00 with 9 minutes rest between each
Th= 90m: Recovery day each run in an "X" pattern
F= 100m: last run of the week is multiple 100m sprints
That's an insanely lower amount of training time than even i put in....Ande & Jazz come to mind.
More of this in an excellent article:
"Elite coaching special - Clyde Hart coach to Michael Johnson and Jeremy Wariner"
Here's are a couple of excerpt:
Clyde believes the principles of training are the same for many events: "I trained Michael Johnson like I trained a four minute miler. A four minute miler was doing a lot of the same things Michael Johnson was - a lot of the same things in training but more of them.
"The longest workout we have ever done - not counting warm up and warm down - would be under 20min, I think we have never worked more than 20min. That's not counting the Fall phase.”
So here's my challenge...I'm going to pick one of the next seasons (either SCM this fall or SCY in the spring) and try and adapt to this regime...anyone else game?
I mentioned the current issue of Bicycling magazine earlier and several great articles along the same lines, here's a few samples:
"Dead Zone Syndrome = typically found in the time-crunched, who often feel that every moment on the bike is so precious that they must go hard."
"Symptoms + Those suffering from the malady may not be aware of it, due to the syndrome's insidious nature. That's because, at a minimum, it maintains fitness." "You're sweating, you burn calories and you get good endurance out of it." "It typically manifests itself in the summer, after the body has reaped much training benefit as possible from single-zone riding. it can manifest as a feeling of monotony, both physical and psychological. Moderate-level intensity provides a constant stimulant to your sympathetic nervous system, your 'fight or flight' response so if you're stressing that system to the same degree day-to-day, there'll be less recovery. In other words you're wearing yourself down."
Sounds like 90% of the masters swimmers I see and 99.9% of the folks at the gym everyday on the elliptical!
The article goes into detail on a 16+5 plan (16 days of "on" training in all 5 training zones followed by 5 days of recovery).
Interesting
I mentioned the current issue of Bicycling magazine earlier and several great articles along the same lines, here's a few samples:
"Dead Zone Syndrome = typically found in the time-crunched, who often feel that every moment on the bike is so precious that they must go hard."
"Symptoms + Those suffering from the malady may not be aware of it, due to the syndrome's insidious nature. That's because, at a minimum, it maintains fitness." "You're sweating, you burn calories and you get good endurance out of it." "It typically manifests itself in the summer, after the body has reaped much training benefit as possible from single-zone riding. it can manifest as a feeling of monotony, both physical and psychological. Moderate-level intensity provides a constant stimulant to your sympathetic nervous system, your 'fight or flight' response so if you're stressing that system to the same degree day-to-day, there'll be less recovery. In other words you're wearing yourself down."
Sounds like 90% of the masters swimmers I see and 99.9% of the folks at the gym everyday on the elliptical!
The article goes into detail on a 16+5 plan (16 days of "on" training in all 5 training zones followed by 5 days of recovery).
Interesting
