Training athletes, you have to balance many things. Three of the most important items to balance are:
1. Efficiency/Speed (these two qualities are like two sides of the same coin)
2. Endurance Potential (base aerobic/cardio training)
I have thought quite a bit about our last competition, and I've concluded that we are a Team full of athletes who are either
A. pretty good at #1 and not so good at #2, or
B. pretty good at #2 and not so good at #1
The efficiency of strokes and walls is probably the most important aspect of swimming. Stroke Count 50s, breath control stuff, negative splitting, drills….all of this directly helps an athlete with efficiency. These are the main items we are going to work on for ALL athletes over the next few weeks.
The following post you see on an old blog I've written goes over this type of mentality in detail. Many of you have read this…so this is for those of you who have not. There's probably no better description of T2's training philosophy than this: Volume vs Velocity Blog
There is not an implicit focus on Stroke Count Swimming in this article, but keep in mind: most of the time we work on speed, we want to use a stroke count that makes sense for us during the training set.
1. Efficiency/Speed (these two qualities are like two sides of the same coin)
2. Endurance Potential (base aerobic/cardio training)
I have thought quite a bit about our last competition, and I've concluded that we are a Team full of athletes who are either
A. pretty good at #1 and not so good at #2, or
B. pretty good at #2 and not so good at #1
The efficiency of strokes and walls is probably the most important aspect of swimming. Stroke Count 50s, breath control stuff, negative splitting, drills….all of this directly helps an athlete with efficiency. These are the main items we are going to work on for ALL athletes over the next few weeks.
The following post you see on an old blog I've written goes over this type of mentality in detail. Many of you have read this…so this is for those of you who have not. There's probably no better description of T2's training philosophy than this: Volume vs Velocity Blog
There is not an implicit focus on Stroke Count Swimming in this article, but keep in mind: most of the time we work on speed, we want to use a stroke count that makes sense for us during the training set.
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