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 sorry, this is not a workout nor adequate preparation for any distance unless you are competing against 8/9s in the 25 Summer League. This is in no way similar to what Paul is proposing. If all you do is the 50 and you have no desire to get better or do longer distances, this might suffice but as you get older and consider doing other distances this will cause you to fall flat on your face.
Geek....Brian did throw down a really good 50 in Austin (21.04) and that seems to be his focus....so would this type of training along with a heavy emphasis on weight training possibly be what someone like track sprinter Asafa Powell or Usain Bolt would do? Were talking about guys training to run in the 9.7 range...and MAYBE pushing out to 200m (19.32)?
As for the board shorts...sounds funky but I still know guys that train with them...and don;t forget doing funky stuff like kicking with sneakers (Josh Davis mentioned this in Austin but people have done it for years). This type of resistance/power work along with and including chutes, bungee's, power racks, etc. all blow your HR thru the roof...something most swimmers rarely can do in workout.
FYI...I had some swimmers from Sun Devil stay after workout the other day to do some bungee work...all were mainly 50-200 folks and I thought we might have a heart attack they were so 'blown up".
I'm sorry, this is not a workout nor adequate preparation for any distance unless you are competing against 8/9s in the 25 Summer League. This is in no way similar to what Paul is proposing. If all you do is the 50 and you have no desire to get better or do longer distances, this might suffice but as you get older and consider doing other distances this will cause you to fall flat on your face.
Geek....Brian did throw down a really good 50 in Austin (21.04) and that seems to be his focus....so would this type of training along with a heavy emphasis on weight training possibly be what someone like track sprinter Asafa Powell or Usain Bolt would do? Were talking about guys training to run in the 9.7 range...and MAYBE pushing out to 200m (19.32)?
As for the board shorts...sounds funky but I still know guys that train with them...and don;t forget doing funky stuff like kicking with sneakers (Josh Davis mentioned this in Austin but people have done it for years). This type of resistance/power work along with and including chutes, bungee's, power racks, etc. all blow your HR thru the roof...something most swimmers rarely can do in workout.
FYI...I had some swimmers from Sun Devil stay after workout the other day to do some bungee work...all were mainly 50-200 folks and I thought we might have a heart attack they were so 'blown up".
