Just to play devil's advocate, one of the best masters sprinters in the world, Mike Ross, typically does 3500 yards per workout with mostly race pace and recovery swimming. Can't argue with his results.
I tend to hesitate to validate training/racing theories using fast master swimmers. These folks carry with them a training legacy that usually involve much more mileage (Base) done at earlier age.
That is why my hypothesis (5k/d base for sprinters) pertained to Elite Club or Varsity swimmers, which I believe is probably the sort of Base that made this grand champion at the first place.
As for his *race pace*, the guy seems to specialize from 50 to 200, which means that some of this race pace work targets aerobic capacity, which makes it fairly complete (as a training program I mean).
Just to play devil's advocate, one of the best masters sprinters in the world, Mike Ross, typically does 3500 yards per workout with mostly race pace and recovery swimming. Can't argue with his results.
I tend to hesitate to validate training/racing theories using fast master swimmers. These folks carry with them a training legacy that usually involve much more mileage (Base) done at earlier age.
That is why my hypothesis (5k/d base for sprinters) pertained to Elite Club or Varsity swimmers, which I believe is probably the sort of Base that made this grand champion at the first place.
As for his *race pace*, the guy seems to specialize from 50 to 200, which means that some of this race pace work targets aerobic capacity, which makes it fairly complete (as a training program I mean).
