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?
many swimmers overtrain especially sprinters
here's the law of training
We become what we do
which means if you want to get better at swimming the 50 free
you should figure out what the critical factors are and work to improve in each area
one of them is to swim FAST swim 15's, 25's & 50 frees with plenty of rest
if you you don't allow enough rest between top efforts
you're actually training for a longer event
ironically the training many sprinters do makes them better at middle distance
one reason track athletes do less is to lower the risk of injury
I think it helps athletes to establish great technique and an excellent aerobic base in their younger years
you wrote:
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
give it a try I bet you'll have great results
I've gotten my best sprints results from doing this type of training
I did it 1990 - 92, 1995 & 96, and in 2008 preparing for SCY Nationals in May
One funny thing about longer harder training is swimmers work hard
so they believe they deserve to swim fast.
I swim fast in practice so I expect to swim fast in meets.
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?
many swimmers overtrain especially sprinters
here's the law of training
We become what we do
which means if you want to get better at swimming the 50 free
you should figure out what the critical factors are and work to improve in each area
one of them is to swim FAST swim 15's, 25's & 50 frees with plenty of rest
if you you don't allow enough rest between top efforts
you're actually training for a longer event
ironically the training many sprinters do makes them better at middle distance
one reason track athletes do less is to lower the risk of injury
I think it helps athletes to establish great technique and an excellent aerobic base in their younger years
you wrote:
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
give it a try I bet you'll have great results
I've gotten my best sprints results from doing this type of training
I did it 1990 - 92, 1995 & 96, and in 2008 preparing for SCY Nationals in May
One funny thing about longer harder training is swimmers work hard
so they believe they deserve to swim fast.
I swim fast in practice so I expect to swim fast in meets.
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?
