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Having the Flu May Have Helped Ryan Murphy’s SC Worlds Taper

2022 FINA SHORT COURSE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

It was two golds in two swims tonight for Ryan Murphy as he collected wins in the 4×50 mixed medley relay and individually in the 100 back. Murphy admits he was nervous coming into this competition because he had had the flu 2.5 weeks prior and didn’t know how the time out of the water would affect his taper.

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Seth
1 year ago

As long as the flu didn’t weaken you after fully healing then you might be faster.

I once spent 9 years competitively swimming and became busy in college reducing training to 1-2 times per week for a semester. The next meet I swam the fastest 50 free of my life.

612
Reply to  Seth
1 year ago

Okay

Bayliss
1 year ago

Ryan Murphy has always had one of the most insane physiques. Dude has trained a lifetime to achieve it.

pete kennedy
1 year ago

Ryan’s extra tapper is exactly what he needed.
Congratulations Ryan.

Robbie
1 year ago

Great video, nice mix of individual assessment and team observations by Ryan.

Andrew
1 year ago

it’s almost like training too much is a real problem athletes face?

Grant Drukker
Reply to  Andrew
1 year ago

yeah, who knew the “taking 1 day off would require 2 days to get back into shape” was such a hinderance to development.

Admin
Reply to  Grant Drukker
1 year ago

I was told it was 3:1.

Walter
Reply to  Braden Keith
1 year ago

It does look like many people are swimming much faster than pre-pandemic, so breaks and rest can not be that bad!

Obese Legend
Reply to  Andrew
1 year ago

This question was already raised after the pandemic lockdown. It looks like quarantine did good to many swimmers.

MTK
Reply to  Andrew
1 year ago

Yeah, I think coaches and athletes across the board need to really strive to find the “minimum effective dose” of training. For a long time the default has been to do more rather than less, but I think for the most part (perhaps exception of distance swimmers, or those that just handle training better), 30km per week is likely to be more effective than 50km per week given the cumulative effects of fatigue over a long period of time, especially for those that do a lot of lifting.

Old School
Reply to  MTK
1 year ago

You would think coaches would learn from the pandemic, but so many programs went right back to the old school, more is better approach. Why so many burn out by the time they get to college.

CraigH
Reply to  MTK
1 year ago

Don’t tell that to the Sandpipers.

MTK
Reply to  CraigH
1 year ago

The problem with looking at a program like the Sandpipers as confirmation that high volume works is that those top successful athletes are the small % that thrive under those kinds of training conditions. Some of the ones that don’t make it in those conditions might have the same upside as the others, but they just can’t handle the type of training that they do, or they burn out very young.

Troyy
Reply to  Andrew
1 year ago

Chalmers broke that 100 SCM world record three months after the Olympics where he was only training lightly.

swim
Reply to  Troyy
1 year ago

coleman stewart’s 100 back was also done with minimal training

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