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?
There are good coaches, great coaches, some that are fellow swimmers that are willing to take the responsibility of posting the workout, and then there are those on crack.
I would rather limp along self directed that every have another coach that is unwilling to post the work out, or does not work with those that are focusing on specific events and strokes. I will spend enough time in purgatory swimming backstroke and will never see the need to do more than an IM series of back.
There are good coaches, great coaches, some that are fellow swimmers that are willing to take the responsibility of posting the workout, and then there are those on crack.
I would rather limp along self directed that every have another coach that is unwilling to post the work out, or does not work with those that are focusing on specific events and strokes. I will spend enough time in purgatory swimming backstroke and will never see the need to do more than an IM series of back.
