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?
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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 in. I've been wanting to ask about this approach for awhile, but didn't want to seem ignorant. My thought is that in running marathons and ultras I have the aerobic system pretty much in place. And although I love distance running and hate sprint running, when it comes to the pool I am just the opposite. I'm not a good sprinter in the pool, but it is so much more fun!
Are there any training plans out there? I was thinking of converting the training plan for the 800 in Daniel's Running Formula book, but if there is something specific for swimming, that would be even better.
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 in. I've been wanting to ask about this approach for awhile, but didn't want to seem ignorant. My thought is that in running marathons and ultras I have the aerobic system pretty much in place. And although I love distance running and hate sprint running, when it comes to the pool I am just the opposite. I'm not a good sprinter in the pool, but it is so much more fun!
Are there any training plans out there? I was thinking of converting the training plan for the 800 in Daniel's Running Formula book, but if there is something specific for swimming, that would be even better.