coachsci.sdsu.edu/.../ultra40a.pdf
There is a method, which is referred to as the Rushall method which Michael Andrew uses.
Was wondering if you had any critique about this. If this sort of training is a good idea and what are the problems.
Would this also be good for longer events? Like the 400 IM?
Thanks!
Psychologically, I do better with a set number of repeats in mindset rather than a "go until you fail" system, even if that means I slightly fall off my desired race pace. I just don't buy Rushall's apparent belief that the path to swimming success is extremely narrow. (Put another way: if you think of swimming performance as a multidimensional hypersurface, then Rushall seems to think that the global maximum is a very sharp peak while I think it is reasonably broad.)
agree 1 billion percent
if swimming performance was such a narrow peak....then there would not be such a vast amount of swimmers that have broken records with various methods. and i can vividly point to 2 olympic gold medals that were earned in the exact same event in the exact same way under the exact same coach! brian goodell and mike o'brien both under mark schubert. both doing mega lactate long distance.
how many olympic gold medals has rushall coached?
not only that, but in that same training pool as mike we had: tiffany and her 2 golds, mary t and her 3 golds, dara and her gold, rich and his gold and finally amy and her silver. not all the same events (100 - 1500, fly and backstrokes).
that is pretty darn broad.
Psychologically, I do better with a set number of repeats in mindset rather than a "go until you fail" system, even if that means I slightly fall off my desired race pace. I just don't buy Rushall's apparent belief that the path to swimming success is extremely narrow. (Put another way: if you think of swimming performance as a multidimensional hypersurface, then Rushall seems to think that the global maximum is a very sharp peak while I think it is reasonably broad.)
agree 1 billion percent
if swimming performance was such a narrow peak....then there would not be such a vast amount of swimmers that have broken records with various methods. and i can vividly point to 2 olympic gold medals that were earned in the exact same event in the exact same way under the exact same coach! brian goodell and mike o'brien both under mark schubert. both doing mega lactate long distance.
how many olympic gold medals has rushall coached?
not only that, but in that same training pool as mike we had: tiffany and her 2 golds, mary t and her 3 golds, dara and her gold, rich and his gold and finally amy and her silver. not all the same events (100 - 1500, fly and backstrokes).
that is pretty darn broad.
