***Breath control work can be dangerous. Do not attempt. For more information on the dangers of Shallow Water Blackout, see here***
On a fine Thursday morning, SwimSwam swung by the University of Florida to film a sprint practice with 7x Olympic Champ Caeleb Dressel, NCAA Josh Liendo, and many more. Assistant coach Jack Szaranek, a UF swimming alum, guides the sprint group through buckets, drills, and speed work.
BUCKET WORK:
- 6x15y sprint with bucket
- 4x15y sprint without bucket
1 Rd w/ No Equipment
1 Rd w/ Fins
DEEP END:
3x, Rd 3 w/ Fins
2x
- 25 Build to FAST Finish
- 25 dead stop, kick on first whistle, swim to FAST finish on 2nd whistle
- 25 FAST breakout
35 OTB 100 Pace, 15 EZ
2×75 AntiPaddles: 1) 1-1-0 Breaths per 25 2) No Breath
I breath too much on my 50 free
I need to do 2 breaths but I do 3
Where is Macguire Macduff?
Congratulations for providing potentially dangerous advice re. breath holding. Clearly a more knowledgeable person informed you of the risk, and advised you to print a “safety clause”. Pathetic!
Jeeez! They are reporting on elite swimmers… elite.
The “safety clause” as you call it is a good idea. Coleman was very fast to include it and address a genuine oversight.
Wind your neck in.
Dat Buff is scootin’
On camera!
Florida needs a new pool. Their pool is outdated and with the newfound women’s program success, it seems overdue
It looks fine for practice
for practice yeah, but the deck space is awful, there isn’t a separate diving well, and pullout stands are a relic of the past.
It isn’t in the same league as Mizzou, Tenn, Auburn, Bama, VT, Louisville, Minnesota, etc which is crazy considering the program is leaps and bounds ahead of the aforementioned teams
Agreed, the facility dates from the 1980’s I believe.
There is no sustained physiological benefit from doing a couple no breath 75.
Maybe not, but there is definitely a psychological benefit
Not a big fan of anaerobic workouts eh?
Dressel and Liendo being 2 of the only athletes to be able to go the last 25 of a 100 fly no breath is not an accident. This does not increase lung capacity, but training CO2 tolerance is a absolutely a physiological benefit from this. Does it make sense for 99% of athletes, probably not, but for the UF sprint group under close supervision from a coach, sure.
Sarah Sjostrom takes 5 breaths in a 100 short course meter free. That doesn’t happen without exposure to higher CO2 levels on a regular basis.
Does she really?? Wow
I always loved Michael Phelps swimming butterfly breathing every stroke.
Well prolonged lack of oxygen causes the body to go into anaerobic metabolism that produces lactic acid. Aerobic metabolism produces CO2 and water.
There is no sustained physiological benefit of doing anything just a couple times. The point is that it was part of the workout, and when they work out every day and likely do some form of breath control every day, it adds up. That’s how training works. Duh.
you think you could train the Florida men better than Nesty? Yea I bet if Liendo or Dressel had you as a coach they’d go 38.5 and 41.0 SCY free/fly. Clearly his training program has no physiological benefit.
most of the things done in these videos thru the years are somewhat questionable… Good entertainment tho,,,,,
Awesome job Coleman!