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'm guessing if you looked at a miler's workout it would be much more than 4x the yardage of Wariner's. I think remember reading one of Bernard Lagat's workouts was 20 x 300's all at 38 sec or under. Don't remember the rest. Distance guys might do 10-15 miles a day. I think swimmers are much more aligned in their yardage, intensity and sets than runners.
Lagat's a freak....1500m & 5000m is insane...then again I admit I'm just a tad skeptical given some of the recent findings regarding EPO use and the fact he did test positive once but was cleared:
Here's the article related to hardy that talks about EPO tests of athletes and the testing guidleines that was already posted:
www.nydailynews.com/.../2008-07-26_swimmer_jessica_hardy_claims_doping_inno.html
Having said all that...some interesting training info from the world of track:
members.iinet.net.au/.../aths.html
exerpts:
- Gebreselassie love plyo's and light weights and regualarly does "strides" (spped work) after workout
- Coe nver trained more than 90k a week and loved weights in off season
- Look at Japhet Kimutai midseason workouts:
Monday: AM 3 miles easy PM 4 x 600m (1:35) + 2 x 200m (24 sec). 2 min rest after 600m, 1 min after 200m.
Tuesday: AM 3 miles at 5:40 pace. PM 9 x 300m (35 sec), with 2 min rest.
Wednesday: AM 3 miles at 5:40 pace PM 5 miles on hills.
Thursday: AM 3 miles easy. PM 12 x 200m (25 sec) + 2 x 400m (58 sec) 60 sec. rest.
Friday: AM 3 miles easy. PM 3 x 600m (1:30) + 2 x 400m (58 sec) + 4 x 200m (27 sec) 60 sec. rest.
Saturday: AM 6 x 400m (57 sec) + 3 x 200m (27 sec) 60 sec. rest. PM Hill repeats
Sunday: Day off.
The more I look into this the more I have questions. Are masters swimmers and triathletes the most overtrained obsessive athletes out there?
I'm guessing if you looked at a miler's workout it would be much more than 4x the yardage of Wariner's. I think remember reading one of Bernard Lagat's workouts was 20 x 300's all at 38 sec or under. Don't remember the rest. Distance guys might do 10-15 miles a day. I think swimmers are much more aligned in their yardage, intensity and sets than runners.
Lagat's a freak....1500m & 5000m is insane...then again I admit I'm just a tad skeptical given some of the recent findings regarding EPO use and the fact he did test positive once but was cleared:
Here's the article related to hardy that talks about EPO tests of athletes and the testing guidleines that was already posted:
www.nydailynews.com/.../2008-07-26_swimmer_jessica_hardy_claims_doping_inno.html
Having said all that...some interesting training info from the world of track:
members.iinet.net.au/.../aths.html
exerpts:
- Gebreselassie love plyo's and light weights and regualarly does "strides" (spped work) after workout
- Coe nver trained more than 90k a week and loved weights in off season
- Look at Japhet Kimutai midseason workouts:
Monday: AM 3 miles easy PM 4 x 600m (1:35) + 2 x 200m (24 sec). 2 min rest after 600m, 1 min after 200m.
Tuesday: AM 3 miles at 5:40 pace. PM 9 x 300m (35 sec), with 2 min rest.
Wednesday: AM 3 miles at 5:40 pace PM 5 miles on hills.
Thursday: AM 3 miles easy. PM 12 x 200m (25 sec) + 2 x 400m (58 sec) 60 sec. rest.
Friday: AM 3 miles easy. PM 3 x 600m (1:30) + 2 x 400m (58 sec) + 4 x 200m (27 sec) 60 sec. rest.
Saturday: AM 6 x 400m (57 sec) + 3 x 200m (27 sec) 60 sec. rest. PM Hill repeats
Sunday: Day off.
The more I look into this the more I have questions. Are masters swimmers and triathletes the most overtrained obsessive athletes out there?
