2024 U.S. Open Championships
- December 4th -7th, 2023
- Greensboro, N.C
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At the US Open in Greensboro, Purdue senior Brady Samuels had an excellent meet, winning the 50 (19.33) and 100 (42.27) free as well as the 100 fly (45.27). Samuels revealed that after having a lackluster season last year, he and his coaches decided to try something new – putting him in the distance group.
Considering purdue had a coaching change last year and sprint group didn’t do so hot I would assume whoever is coaching sprint is adjusting and hasn’t done it before, but there are other factors. You should always coach the athlete, not the event, perhaps this form of training just works better for this swimmer. There’s really no college sprint program that shouldn’t be doing some form of aerobic swimming and hard anaerobic swimming considering the 50 is a max of 4 of their swims between 2 relays and the individual event, while if they’re well rounded could be swimming 6 or more 100’s, and even a 200. Very different from someone like bruno fratus who should have been training very… Read more »
Cheering for you, Brady. Boiler Up!
While I applaud changing it up and challenging himself, when I was a senior I was pretty much just training to get to the end of my career and there is no way in hell I would have switched to distance!
But that also explains why I’m an old swammer commenting on the internet. Kudos to finding something that works and keeps you motivated! You maniac!
But Brett Hawke says we shouldn’t let sprinters waste their time on not going fast!
Michael Andrew taking notes?
To be fair, just joining an actual sprint program would be considered a “distance” practice for him
And Pan sits back cackling, smoking a cigar and sipping on some Buffalo Trace. 😂
What?
Do they sell Buffalo Trace in Wenzhou?
Pan went the other way, from someone that was pretty fast in the 1500m Free as a 14 year old (not as fast as Luka’s new NAG record, but still pretty fast 15.34ish) down to the 100 Free Olympic Champion and World Record holder.
Think the point is they’re both sprinters with large yardage.
Distance revolution! Where’s that guy from instagram
Hell yeah
Yeahhhhhhh!
Brett Hawke goes home devastated
Turns out that swimmers just get fast and it’s not all that important of the “style” of coaching rather than just having a good coach that will work with you.
While I agree that sprinting and racing certainly needs to be and has started to become a pillar in most programs (grade school to college) it is obvious that solid distance and aerobic conditioning is absolutely necessary if you want to swim anything but other than the 50 free.
It’s all about balance