This is about mental expectancy and physical preparation. You can perform in 5+ events in a day. But if you don't expect to, if you've already got your list of excuses ready, if you don't eat and drink throughout the day to keep yourself energized, if you don't warm up or warm down properly, then of course you're going to suck. Prepare correctly and believe in yourself and you'll be amazed at what you can do.
I agree mental is a huge part of the game when it comes to competition and you bring up a good point that managing yourself during a meet is critical to your last events.
But does training volume play a significant roll at the end of your event list or no?
I think this is the most important statement from the original training article "Over the whole season the swimmers who made the biggest improvements were those who performed more of their training at higher paces. The volume of training had no influence on swim performance."
That statement makes a lot of sense, but what about two swimmers who train at the same intensity, but one swimmer has an extra workout a week. Will the swimmer doing the extra work perform better on his 5th event? Will he perform better on the fifth event at expense of this early events? Or is he just wasting time because that extra workout doesn't give him any advantage over his competitor?
This is about mental expectancy and physical preparation. You can perform in 5+ events in a day. But if you don't expect to, if you've already got your list of excuses ready, if you don't eat and drink throughout the day to keep yourself energized, if you don't warm up or warm down properly, then of course you're going to suck. Prepare correctly and believe in yourself and you'll be amazed at what you can do.
I agree mental is a huge part of the game when it comes to competition and you bring up a good point that managing yourself during a meet is critical to your last events.
But does training volume play a significant roll at the end of your event list or no?
I think this is the most important statement from the original training article "Over the whole season the swimmers who made the biggest improvements were those who performed more of their training at higher paces. The volume of training had no influence on swim performance."
That statement makes a lot of sense, but what about two swimmers who train at the same intensity, but one swimmer has an extra workout a week. Will the swimmer doing the extra work perform better on his 5th event? Will he perform better on the fifth event at expense of this early events? Or is he just wasting time because that extra workout doesn't give him any advantage over his competitor?
