Given my death of "pure speed power" would I get more benefit out of concentrating on building "pure speed power" or from building "speed endurance"? My current strategy is to do a mix of both in training, but sometimes I wonder if I should just concede that I will never have raw speed so I can focus more on speed endurance, which seems to be something more consistent with my physiology. Do you train alone, in a squad, or mix of both?
You are right about the free data btw, it's less reliable because it is collected over a variety of venues over a number or years. (I don't race free much.) I see.
As to the question of whether a distance swimmer should do power work,I have no real data,except that when I first started consistently doing weights the first race that I started really seeing improvement in was the 200 BR. I'll specialize in the 200bf this year (as well as the 1500 free) and trust me, I have my season ticket for once/week gym session. Vital for me I find, both for the reason you mentioned and for injury prevention.
Again, I feel very lucky because I do not know about you, but once a week for me works fine. No DOMS. 45min roughly. So not a big investment for all the good it does.
...formulas,logs;how cool is that(I am not being sarcastic,I really love this stuff.) Then here is the second part.
TU = T1 * (DU/D1) ^ SDI
Where TU is a time that is unknown for a distance (DU) you'd like to issue prediction.
As an example. You may not like this one though!!
Your time over 100 based on your 50 could be predicted as
36.48 * (50/100) ^ 1.111
1.18.8
Your time over 200 based on your 50 could be predicted as
36.48 * (50/200) ^ 1.111
2:50.2
If I was your coach, you'd probably have me on your back until you get closer to these times, as your pure speed potential seems to indicate that there's still a lot of room for improvement. I may be wrong though. Without having access to the two top swimmers' best effort over 50Breast, it's hard to tell. The balance between your 100 and 200 matches theirs, but the balance between your 50 and the two other events may indicate that you lack on both the anaerobic capacity side and the aerobic capacity side. I use the word *may*.
Given my death of "pure speed power" would I get more benefit out of concentrating on building "pure speed power" or from building "speed endurance"? My current strategy is to do a mix of both in training, but sometimes I wonder if I should just concede that I will never have raw speed so I can focus more on speed endurance, which seems to be something more consistent with my physiology. Do you train alone, in a squad, or mix of both?
You are right about the free data btw, it's less reliable because it is collected over a variety of venues over a number or years. (I don't race free much.) I see.
As to the question of whether a distance swimmer should do power work,I have no real data,except that when I first started consistently doing weights the first race that I started really seeing improvement in was the 200 BR. I'll specialize in the 200bf this year (as well as the 1500 free) and trust me, I have my season ticket for once/week gym session. Vital for me I find, both for the reason you mentioned and for injury prevention.
Again, I feel very lucky because I do not know about you, but once a week for me works fine. No DOMS. 45min roughly. So not a big investment for all the good it does.
...formulas,logs;how cool is that(I am not being sarcastic,I really love this stuff.) Then here is the second part.
TU = T1 * (DU/D1) ^ SDI
Where TU is a time that is unknown for a distance (DU) you'd like to issue prediction.
As an example. You may not like this one though!!
Your time over 100 based on your 50 could be predicted as
36.48 * (50/100) ^ 1.111
1.18.8
Your time over 200 based on your 50 could be predicted as
36.48 * (50/200) ^ 1.111
2:50.2
If I was your coach, you'd probably have me on your back until you get closer to these times, as your pure speed potential seems to indicate that there's still a lot of room for improvement. I may be wrong though. Without having access to the two top swimmers' best effort over 50Breast, it's hard to tell. The balance between your 100 and 200 matches theirs, but the balance between your 50 and the two other events may indicate that you lack on both the anaerobic capacity side and the aerobic capacity side. I use the word *may*.
