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?
more training would get your 500 time more in line with your 50 time
there's skinny little 12 year old girls who can barely go 26 in a 50 yard free that can go 5:11 in a 500
you should at least go under 5:00
I'm thinking about switching to longer events in the middle year of each age group
45 sprint
46 sprint
47 longer stuff
48 sprint
49 sprint
I'd really like to pop a decent 100 scy free
I'm leaning towards the paul smith trick
go for a 100 time while doing the 1,000
Of course. I'm thinking about the 200/500 combo at SCY nats next year. I've always kind liked those distances, and they suit me in one way because I'm not a terribly strong kicker.
Believe it or not, I went a lifetime best in the 500 (5:11) a couple years ago on less than 10,000 yards a week.
more training would get your 500 time more in line with your 50 time
there's skinny little 12 year old girls who can barely go 26 in a 50 yard free that can go 5:11 in a 500
you should at least go under 5:00
I'm thinking about switching to longer events in the middle year of each age group
45 sprint
46 sprint
47 longer stuff
48 sprint
49 sprint
I'd really like to pop a decent 100 scy free
I'm leaning towards the paul smith trick
go for a 100 time while doing the 1,000
Of course. I'm thinking about the 200/500 combo at SCY nats next year. I've always kind liked those distances, and they suit me in one way because I'm not a terribly strong kicker.
Believe it or not, I went a lifetime best in the 500 (5:11) a couple years ago on less than 10,000 yards a week.