Q, I just started skimming through this, and I must say it is excellent.
I agree. Most people would find several points of value in the article, as current swimming research has been summarized in a sentence or two per paper. I recommended it to Jazz because it is an excellent list of current research papers relevant to competitive swimming.
Perhaps it should be mandatory reading before any of us on these forums be allowed to bloviate on some tidbit of swimming minutiae of which be suspect we have inner wisdom!
I am a strong believer in empirical evidence. I am a student of the forumites who share their training experience, both positive and negative. I learn from them and compared to many I have very limited experience. My years as a competitive swimmer are very limited and thus I have little of my own experiences to draw conclusions on training methodology from. To fill these gaps, I read, and I share what I read. I try to limit my advice to matters where I might have more experience than the advised. This keeps me from advising The Fortress on kicking, Ande on tech suits and Chris Stevenson on chemistry.
You might have noticed that advice I give that comes from personal experience is limited to beginning swimmers and weight training? Other serious commentary is usually accompanied by references, not because I expect references from everyone else, but because I lack the background to make statements that researchers of the sport can.
Not sure if it covers the effect of land training and weight lifting on swimming performance, but I suspect it might provide a wee tincture of validation for those of us who hold despised views along these lines!
Yes, there are several references supporting that weight lifting does not aide swimming and one reference (Hsu), showing a benefit of weight lifting. The debate on the short term benefits of strength training is still open.
The long term benefits debate was closed at the end of April. I know you love videos, so here is video proof of the long term benefits of strength training.
YouTube- Rich Abrahams 65 years old 100 freestyle Atlanta 2010
Q, I just started skimming through this, and I must say it is excellent.
I agree. Most people would find several points of value in the article, as current swimming research has been summarized in a sentence or two per paper. I recommended it to Jazz because it is an excellent list of current research papers relevant to competitive swimming.
Perhaps it should be mandatory reading before any of us on these forums be allowed to bloviate on some tidbit of swimming minutiae of which be suspect we have inner wisdom!
I am a strong believer in empirical evidence. I am a student of the forumites who share their training experience, both positive and negative. I learn from them and compared to many I have very limited experience. My years as a competitive swimmer are very limited and thus I have little of my own experiences to draw conclusions on training methodology from. To fill these gaps, I read, and I share what I read. I try to limit my advice to matters where I might have more experience than the advised. This keeps me from advising The Fortress on kicking, Ande on tech suits and Chris Stevenson on chemistry.
You might have noticed that advice I give that comes from personal experience is limited to beginning swimmers and weight training? Other serious commentary is usually accompanied by references, not because I expect references from everyone else, but because I lack the background to make statements that researchers of the sport can.
Not sure if it covers the effect of land training and weight lifting on swimming performance, but I suspect it might provide a wee tincture of validation for those of us who hold despised views along these lines!
Yes, there are several references supporting that weight lifting does not aide swimming and one reference (Hsu), showing a benefit of weight lifting. The debate on the short term benefits of strength training is still open.
The long term benefits debate was closed at the end of April. I know you love videos, so here is video proof of the long term benefits of strength training.
YouTube- Rich Abrahams 65 years old 100 freestyle Atlanta 2010
