2022 FINA SHORT COURSE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Tuesday, December 13 to Sunday, December 18, 2022
- Melbourne Sports and Aquatics Centre, Melbourne, Australia
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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.
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.
Okay
Ryan Murphy has always had one of the most insane physiques. Dude has trained a lifetime to achieve it.
Ryan’s extra tapper is exactly what he needed.
Congratulations Ryan.
Great video, nice mix of individual assessment and team observations by Ryan.
it’s almost like training too much is a real problem athletes face?
yeah, who knew the “taking 1 day off would require 2 days to get back into shape” was such a hinderance to development.
I was told it was 3:1.
It does look like many people are swimming much faster than pre-pandemic, so breaks and rest can not be that bad!
This question was already raised after the pandemic lockdown. It looks like quarantine did good to many swimmers.
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.
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.
Don’t tell that to the Sandpipers.
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.
Chalmers broke that 100 SCM world record three months after the Olympics where he was only training lightly.
coleman stewart’s 100 back was also done with minimal training