Doesn't make sense to you in other words? This concept that you need to build a strong Base to later build other fitness components on it?
The different systems are suited to different tasks. Sprinting is more anaerobic, and endurance is more aerobic. They overlap quite a bit, so energy system cross-training isn't necessarily useless. But nothing about these systems suggests that one is the "base", unless you happen to think that sprinting isn't real swimming because it's not painful enough or time-consuming enough. You could just as well say that nobody should attempt endurance events without first establishing a base of sprinting power. But that would be crazy sprinter talk.
In other words, the "aerobic base" concept of training is an artifact of old-school swimming culture.
Doesn't make sense to you in other words? This concept that you need to build a strong Base to later build other fitness components on it?
The different systems are suited to different tasks. Sprinting is more anaerobic, and endurance is more aerobic. They overlap quite a bit, so energy system cross-training isn't necessarily useless. But nothing about these systems suggests that one is the "base", unless you happen to think that sprinting isn't real swimming because it's not painful enough or time-consuming enough. You could just as well say that nobody should attempt endurance events without first establishing a base of sprinting power. But that would be crazy sprinter talk.
In other words, the "aerobic base" concept of training is an artifact of old-school swimming culture.
