Jason Calanog will be your preacher for the day, and Jacob Andrasco is the converted. The congregation is the Bolles School Sharks, they come and go, come and go.
Today’s service will be 4 hours long, and no fear will be allowed.
Schedule of the hymns:
200 x 100’s, short course yards
10 on the 1:20
90 on the 1:10-1:15
100 on the 1:05-1:15
Last 5 butterfly.
Ready, go.
Given the source of the original set…John Trembley…I think it is prudent to consider the nature of excess in swimming.
January 1993, Bolles School Pool
Set: 90 x 200m & yd (both pools in use)
Participants: The entire team including swimmers as young as twelve, Canadian Olympian Casey Barret of Imagine Swim fame and the blog Cap & Goggles, 1996 Atlanta gold medalist Trina Jackson, Asian Games and Cal star Ratapong “Nuk” Sironasont, Spanish Olympians Claudia Franco and Meider Gastañaga, Nashville Aquatics’ coach Christian Bahr, and former Oakland California Undercurrents’ and ex-US Swimming diversity consultant Ben Shepard.
Inspiration: Mercersburg and Amherest College All-American Tom Donley, current head coach at Sid Well Friends–then assistant coach at Bolles, mentioned to Gregg Troy that John Trembley made the Mercersburg team swim 80 x 200 in the late eighties. Not to be outdone, Troy… Read more »
Legendary
I definitely think this was poor judgment on Coach Jason’s part. One of the main roles for any parent/educator/coach is to help young people make good decisions, which sometimes takes the form of protecting them from their own overly ambitious ideas. The mind set of this young man should be commened, but maybe it would be better to channel that ambition into something a bit more productive and safe. Sure he accomplished something amazing (or ridiculous), but where would Jason have drawn the line? What happens when the next kid wants to do 300x100s?
Bolles is also a high profile club and some inexperienced coaches could easily think this is a great idea to copy Bolles. I hate to… Read more »
I think there is a gigantic difference between a kid asking to do a challenge set to celebrate his amazing progress as an athlete vs a coach ordering a set like this. Coach Jason alluded to it, but this young man has come a long, long way since joining Bolles. Don’t over-analyze this, it was a special accomplishment specific to this kid. IMO, any coach that “copies” this because a Bolles kid did it probably shouldn’t be coaching anyway. 🙂
Congrats!!! Major accomplishment! The video was so cool too. It was awesome seeing his teammates cheering him on!
No Apologies for Good Distance (Aerobic) Work! Those that don’t understand are ignorant! Aerobic (EN1) should be 40% of weekly yardage according to Maglischo….
Sorry, but I don’t think any exercise physiologist would agree that it was a good aerobic set.
However, it was a great accomplishment nonetheless and that is not diminished.
No Apology Necessary!,
Your claim that Maglischo recommends 40% of weekly yardage is incorrect. If you’re going to follow the science (more swim coaches need to, good job) please keep up with the science too. Also, it’s helpful to provide links to your findings to help support your claims. A couple quotes from Maglischo’s 2012 update on training zone’s-
“Ten to 20 mins of continuous or short rest swimming at a time is probably the minimum time required to produce an adequate training effect (of EN1 adaptations).”
Ten to 20 mins isn’t 40% of weekly volume, assuming a swimmer has a traditional 2 hour practice.
Maglisho also states-
“Not having coached swimmers for several years, I do not… Read more »
Dear Swimming Fans,
The point of the video was to show people that if your swimmer and coach BELIEVE in each other anything is possible. The set was his idea and he wanted to accomplish this feat. (5 years ago he could barely walk 1 time around a track) I congratulate him for his dedication with Bolles swimming and his determination to want to do it.
We did a 5,000 yard practice that day.
#Believe
#FearIsForOthers
Jason Calanog
Certainly an impressive feat. Just hoping that coach doesn’t actually think that was a valuable workout…
It’s not like the whole team did it. This may be a kid who’s training for the 1650-open water swims. in what will probably be surprise to folks who comment here regularly I’m OK with this. It’s what the coach thought this one dude needed.
Since it was only a challenge set there’s nothing wrong with it. I just hope that other coaches don’t consider that type of set to be physiologically beneficial.