Reading the Eddie Reese article in the SFF thread and the importance of an aerobic base I was led to wonder, how do you establish and maintain an aerobic base, and how do you know when to go from building the aerobic base to working on non-aerobic training? Do you split your season or do you work on all aspects all the time?
I know it's a big question but...
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Allen,
This is an important topic and I'd love to hear from other coaches. Specificity training is well understood and I think we nod our heads up and down but most coaches still create workouts that are nothing more than "tire you out" sets. I know you understand very well what I'm talking about but the coaches coming up in the ranks, if they're like most coaches, still use training strategies they grew up with. I recently recevied a newsletter from ASCA and one of the articles listed the top 5 hardest training sets. It pointed out that these tough sets made the great swimmers who did them, -- Great. I don't think it did and the article contributed to the notion that 10 x 1000 made a swimmer faster. I remember a great flyer who broke a world record and attributed his success to the 20 x 200 fly sets on 2min, he did consistently but his record was broken the next week by Michael Gross who trained with micro-yardage comparitivly speaking. Thanks again for keeping the thread alive. Coach T.
Allen,
This is an important topic and I'd love to hear from other coaches. Specificity training is well understood and I think we nod our heads up and down but most coaches still create workouts that are nothing more than "tire you out" sets. I know you understand very well what I'm talking about but the coaches coming up in the ranks, if they're like most coaches, still use training strategies they grew up with. I recently recevied a newsletter from ASCA and one of the articles listed the top 5 hardest training sets. It pointed out that these tough sets made the great swimmers who did them, -- Great. I don't think it did and the article contributed to the notion that 10 x 1000 made a swimmer faster. I remember a great flyer who broke a world record and attributed his success to the 20 x 200 fly sets on 2min, he did consistently but his record was broken the next week by Michael Gross who trained with micro-yardage comparitivly speaking. Thanks again for keeping the thread alive. Coach T.
