15% with a squad.
15% with one training partner
70% alone, although some of this is one-on-one with a coach.
OK then. So your question was "Should I focus on pure speed development (anaerobic power) or speed endurance (anaerobic capacity) 1 component at the time or would a mix of both be better?"
The there aren't just one answer to this question.
First, I would isolate these components. Speed endurance, or race pace training, or anaerobic capacity, or lactate tolerance, or pain tolerance is very hard. When you design a set aimed at improving this, given the recovery periods involved, I would only target this component during the set.
Pure speed can definitely be coupled with something else within the same workout. Best fit I find is to couple this with some technical. You drill then sprint over 25 or 50 y or m, then drill then sprint again etc. You can finish such a workout with some longer steady lower intensity work.
Now your next question might be: Should I address both of these within a training week? I'd say if you want to keep your schedule simple, periodization free, the answer is Yes.
Only when you reach what appears as being a hard to overcome plateau, then you may need to start periodizing your schedule to spend say, x number of weeks focusing on 1, then x number of weeks focusing on the other.
We all swim to improve (hopefully). So as long as you improve, I'd favor the simplest approaches.
Over the years, I have found that pure sprinting abilities are better developed very early in a season, even before serious aerobic development. Rational for this is that sprinting over short distances doesn't require a strong aerobic base (no prerequisite in other words). The benefit for this approach is that it allows you to increase the training speed at which all other fitness component development to take place later in the season.
15% with a squad.
15% with one training partner
70% alone, although some of this is one-on-one with a coach.
OK then. So your question was "Should I focus on pure speed development (anaerobic power) or speed endurance (anaerobic capacity) 1 component at the time or would a mix of both be better?"
The there aren't just one answer to this question.
First, I would isolate these components. Speed endurance, or race pace training, or anaerobic capacity, or lactate tolerance, or pain tolerance is very hard. When you design a set aimed at improving this, given the recovery periods involved, I would only target this component during the set.
Pure speed can definitely be coupled with something else within the same workout. Best fit I find is to couple this with some technical. You drill then sprint over 25 or 50 y or m, then drill then sprint again etc. You can finish such a workout with some longer steady lower intensity work.
Now your next question might be: Should I address both of these within a training week? I'd say if you want to keep your schedule simple, periodization free, the answer is Yes.
Only when you reach what appears as being a hard to overcome plateau, then you may need to start periodizing your schedule to spend say, x number of weeks focusing on 1, then x number of weeks focusing on the other.
We all swim to improve (hopefully). So as long as you improve, I'd favor the simplest approaches.
Over the years, I have found that pure sprinting abilities are better developed very early in a season, even before serious aerobic development. Rational for this is that sprinting over short distances doesn't require a strong aerobic base (no prerequisite in other words). The benefit for this approach is that it allows you to increase the training speed at which all other fitness component development to take place later in the season.
