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?
Parents
Former Member
Paul is that all he does or is there biking, and weights etc?
Like you said get fit out of the water and save it for the race pace stuff and drills etc. No 4k a night thing.
Admitted I am not a swimmer thru school and college but I got fast (for me :50's down to 28 low; 100 1:06ish converted) at 50's and 100's doing little else but 2.5 -3kyards x 3 a week. Of note my 2 BR went from #;07 to 2:57 in 1 season... of course I's a nice steep curve of improving times when you first start up. I think you may be able to get some relative drops doing pure sprint work and technique stuff. Provided you don't binge eat and balloon up your weight etc.
This year I'm dong 3k x 4 or 5 a week in the LCM pool. I look a tad faster than last year, but the test will be zones in 3 weeks...see if I get any good drops after a rest and taper.
Reply
Former Member
Paul is that all he does or is there biking, and weights etc?
Like you said get fit out of the water and save it for the race pace stuff and drills etc. No 4k a night thing.
Admitted I am not a swimmer thru school and college but I got fast (for me :50's down to 28 low; 100 1:06ish converted) at 50's and 100's doing little else but 2.5 -3kyards x 3 a week. Of note my 2 BR went from #;07 to 2:57 in 1 season... of course I's a nice steep curve of improving times when you first start up. I think you may be able to get some relative drops doing pure sprint work and technique stuff. Provided you don't binge eat and balloon up your weight etc.
This year I'm dong 3k x 4 or 5 a week in the LCM pool. I look a tad faster than last year, but the test will be zones in 3 weeks...see if I get any good drops after a rest and taper.
