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The following workout was submitted by John Brooks, head swimming & diving coach at Brigham Young University:
This IM set is designed to help with the transition from one stroke to the next. As you can see you are always doing 3 fast strokes with the 3rd 50 being a new stroke.
32×50 @ 45
fly fast
fly ez
fly fast
fly fast
bk fast
bk ez
bk fast
2x bk fast
br fast
br ez
br fast
br fast
fr fast
fr ez
fr fast
fr fast
1min break
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Swimming 32 x 50’s on the 45 is analogous in track for doing 32 x 200’s on the 45. Would never be done. 16 maybe. SprintSalo from 1993 touches on the disconnect between swimming and track wrt training methods. The fundamantal question for thought is, “How does swimming for 10,000 -15,000 meters per day, a good percentage of it slow, make you fast for swimming a couple hundred meters race?”
Maybe not for a a 100 or 200. But i have personally trained with and witnessed a swimmer who did almost exclusively long slow distance training make aa Fina A standard Olympic qual time in the 400IM. This swimmer was also much less successful moving to a more quality oriented program for college. And don’t tell me it wasn’t a good program. It was one of the best. Consistently in the top 10 with some titles to their name. So sometimes i think people judge old school training a bit much. Bobby Hackett is still the fastest 16 year old American ever in the 1500…so get your head around that…all the advancement we’ve had in training and one of the… Read more »
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