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 just too much of an endorphin addict. ...
Bowman was taking his swimmers to 70 practices in 24 days before the Olympics. Yardage isn't mentioned, but it is a pretty good bet to be much more than the amount is being discussed here.
From an article on nbcolympics.com:
The full details of the regimen remain a Bowman secret. But he was glad to share, for instance, the details of what one day might be like: 6:30 a.m.: 4,000-meter swim. 11:30 a.m.: 6,000-meter swim. 4 p.m.: weight room or pilates, 45 minutes 5 p.m.: 4,000-meter swim Total in the pool that day: 14,000 meters, or about eight miles.
I'm kind of with you Chris on the endorphin addiction. I would almost like to try training like this just to see how my overall fitness (and physique) changed over its course. And to see if I could survive it.
I agree with Ande that if I want to improve my speed, I should train for that. But I really love the fact that I've lost 30+ pounds in the year and a half since I started swimming. And, even with all of our aerobic workouts, my speed is SLOWLY improving.
I'm just too much of an endorphin addict. ...
Bowman was taking his swimmers to 70 practices in 24 days before the Olympics. Yardage isn't mentioned, but it is a pretty good bet to be much more than the amount is being discussed here.
From an article on nbcolympics.com:
The full details of the regimen remain a Bowman secret. But he was glad to share, for instance, the details of what one day might be like: 6:30 a.m.: 4,000-meter swim. 11:30 a.m.: 6,000-meter swim. 4 p.m.: weight room or pilates, 45 minutes 5 p.m.: 4,000-meter swim Total in the pool that day: 14,000 meters, or about eight miles.
I'm kind of with you Chris on the endorphin addiction. I would almost like to try training like this just to see how my overall fitness (and physique) changed over its course. And to see if I could survive it.
I agree with Ande that if I want to improve my speed, I should train for that. But I really love the fact that I've lost 30+ pounds in the year and a half since I started swimming. And, even with all of our aerobic workouts, my speed is SLOWLY improving.
