Do we have it (training) all wrong?

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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  • Gosh, I'd give anything to have a coached practice! I coach a small group of folks once a week, but other than myself, the closest coached practice is 1.5 hours away and takes place at 5 am in the morning. I love swimming but not enough to drive 3 hours roundtrip during the early hours of the morning. Not only is it great to have a coach to watch your strokes, but it is also great to have one to push you. I am so lazy and I know no coach in his right mind would have me doing what I did today - 300 warm-up 4 x 100 dolphin kick (no fins) on 2 min, hold under 1 min.,30 sec. (the colon key on my computer is broken) 4 x 50 rt arm/lt arm fly on 1 minute 100 easy End of workout. Isn't that pitiful?
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  • Gosh, I'd give anything to have a coached practice! I coach a small group of folks once a week, but other than myself, the closest coached practice is 1.5 hours away and takes place at 5 am in the morning. I love swimming but not enough to drive 3 hours roundtrip during the early hours of the morning. Not only is it great to have a coach to watch your strokes, but it is also great to have one to push you. I am so lazy and I know no coach in his right mind would have me doing what I did today - 300 warm-up 4 x 100 dolphin kick (no fins) on 2 min, hold under 1 min.,30 sec. (the colon key on my computer is broken) 4 x 50 rt arm/lt arm fly on 1 minute 100 easy End of workout. Isn't that pitiful?
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