Coaches and Sprinting

Over the past 25 years, I have been a member of 4 large USMS clubs. UC San Diego USF Davis NOVA I've trained with many other smaller teams in traveling as well. All 4 of the large teams and most of those I have visited, run a practice schedule that seems a variation of: Monday - Mid-distance Free Tues/Thur - Stroke/IM Wednesday - Big freestyle distance Friday - Fast/Sprint/Fins Saturday - Intensive or distance Sunday - Recovery or technique practice If your club does not have some kind of regular practice rotation, and you feel you are missing something in particular... "Go talk to your coach" (thanks Ben Shepard!) "Asking" (thanks Ande - Swim Faster Faster) U.S. Masters Swimming Discussion Forums - View Single Post - Ande's Swimming Tips: Swimming Faster Faster If you're a sprinter and you have not read Ande, Paul, or Erik's advice here on the forum, then do that next. Or checked periodically Ande or Fortress' blogs where sprinting fast is of the utmost importance. Ande? He is the MASTER of, "Assigned XXX, Did XXX" Fortress? She is Bad A** fast - and super smart. Interesting variations of dynamic sprint training - weight lifting - dryland - swim sets - and hands down, the best discussions/comments among masters swimmers out there! A former coach of mine, used to get insulted when I did not do everything as assigned when he coached. Luckily, he wasn't on deck very often. But after venturing out to look for coaching not offered within my own club, I found insight and experience worth trying in my own practices - right here. It can be tough to have the confidence to add or change up the training everyone else in the pool is doing - like herded sheep. Sometimes, all we need is the confidence to try something new. Follow our intuition. Ande gives some good advice on how to accomplish this in practice quite stealthly... Swimming changed a lot for me in the last year... just about the time I found these forum discussions. (A treasure chest of coaches) As a coach on deck and a swimmer in the pool, I have found that there are many masters swimmers who are incredibly knowledgeable and generous with their advice. Just because I'm the coach on deck does not mean I am the end all. My swimmer and I are a working team. As a coach, I've tried to be open to contributions and suggestions from the pool. I have learned more from real swimmers about swimming than anyone else. Some things DO change. Swimming is one of them. Very grateful for that and all the good (sometimes sarcastically offered) advice from swimmers.

Over the past 25 years, I have been a member of 4 large USMS clubs. UC San Diego USF Davis NOVA I've trained with many other smaller teams in traveling as well. All 4 of the large teams and most of those I have visited, run a practice schedule that seems a variation of: Monday - Mid-distance Free Tues/Thur - Stroke/IM Wednesday - Big freestyle distance Friday - Fast/Sprint/Fins Saturday - Intensive or distance Sunday - Recovery or technique practice If your club does not have some kind of regular practice rotation, and you feel you are missing something in particular... "Go talk to your coach" (thanks Ben Shepard!) "Asking" (thanks Ande - Swim Faster Faster) U.S. Masters Swimming Discussion Forums - View Single Post - Ande's Swimming Tips: Swimming Faster Faster If you're a sprinter and you have not read Ande, Paul, or Erik's advice here on the forum, then do that next. Or checked periodically Ande or Fortress' blogs where sprinting fast is of the utmost importance. Ande? He is the MASTER of, "Assigned XXX, Did XXX" Fortress? She is Bad A** fast - and super smart. Interesting variations of dynamic sprint training - weight lifting - dryland - swim sets - and hands down, the best discussions/comments among masters swimmers out there! A former coach of mine, used to get insulted when I did not do everything as assigned when he coached. Luckily, he wasn't on deck very often. But after venturing out to look for coaching not offered within my own club, I found insight and experience worth trying in my own practices - right here. It can be tough to have the confidence to add or change up the training everyone else in the pool is doing - like herded sheep. Sometimes, all we need is the confidence to try something new. Follow our intuition. Ande gives some good advice on how to accomplish this in practice quite stealthly... Swimming changed a lot for me in the last year... just about the time I found these forum discussions. (A treasure chest of coaches) As a coach on deck and a swimmer in the pool, I have found that there are many masters swimmers who are incredibly knowledgeable and generous with their advice. Just because I'm the coach on deck does not mean I am the end all. My swimmer and I are a working team. As a coach, I've tried to be open to contributions and suggestions from the pool. I have learned more from real swimmers about swimming than anyone else. Some things DO change. Swimming is one of them. Very grateful for that and all the good (sometimes sarcastically offered) advice from swimmers.