The place do you do most of your coaching and in what size pool (25/50m)?
I used to do all of my coaching in a 25m pool, however only recently I’ve modified program and moved into town the place there’s a model new 50m pool. I now practice predominantly lengthy course with solely 3 periods quick course.
What particular traits/qualities (each bodily and technical) ought to a brief course swimmer have in comparison with a protracted course one?
Brief course swimmers characteristically can have higher turns, quick around the partitions and highly effective and efficient push offs. They need to have a very good potential to work on the technical facets of quick course swimming successfully like begins, turns, beneath water work and the power to take care of velocity into and out of the turns. Having a higher athletic potential i.e explosive energy and athleticism is one other high quality good quick course swimmers ought to have. Lengthy course swimmers are higher at sustaining speeds for an extended time period, quick course swimmers are nice at altering path and velocity shortly and successfully.
With the 25m pool, technical facets such because the flip, push, glide, and dash naturally grow to be extra necessary – how do you’re employed on these facets in your preparation for a SC meet?
In preparation for racing at a SC meet I begin the season engaged on plyometric work and athletic primarily based land work to try to acquire that athleticism and explosive energy for begins and turns. In coaching, I concentrate on the approach of every side talked about at slower speeds steadily constructing as much as race tempo velocity as soon as the perfect approach has been reached to bolster it. Additionally hypoxic work is significant in coaching your lung capability to deal with the demand of being beneath water extra regularly in brief course racing. You don’t wish to undergo from an excessive amount of oxygen debt throughout a race! I additionally put strain on my potential to take care of good type and strategy of these facets talked about throughout powerful coaching units, i.e. working towards approach beneath fatigue. It does assist to coach in a brief course pool however you possibly can nonetheless practice successfully in a protracted course pool. Engaged on approach and rising the quantity of quick velocity work and hypoxic work will assist.
How else does coaching for brief course competitors differ from lengthy course? What’s the fundamental focus of coaching for brief course competitors by way of programme, units, and so on.?
I used to be lucky to have accomplished most of my coaching at a brief course pool so I by no means had an issue coaching for brief course competitions. Lately although I’ve switched to a higher LC utilization so I’m having to adapt my coaching to go well with quick course in a protracted course pool. I’ll work on coaching to hit race tempo and quick velocity work units extra regularly to try to accommodate the dearth of quick course coaching.
In an Olympic yr, how troublesome is the transformation (each bodily and psychological) from getting ready for LC to SC?
It may be fairly tough, quite a lot of swimmers will take an extended time period off put up Olympics so getting again into coaching in time for a brief course occasion might be laborious. Some could not really feel totally able to race when the quick course competitions come spherical. Submit Olympics to get your head again into coaching and get bodily match can take a bit longer because the affect the Olympics has is big. To some swimmers quick course racing will not be as necessary as lengthy course. I personally like racing quick course, it’s a chance to race your opponents and I discover you possibly can have much more enjoyable racing in a brief course pool.
How do your race ways differ between LC and SC? Would they differ for various occasions?
I discover the ways do differ for instance 200m quick course race seems like a 100m lengthy course race, 400m race seems like a 200m lengthy course race. It is advisable be sharp off the blocks and across the turns and never be afraid to be out quick the place as lengthy course in case you are out too fast you possibly can pay the worth in a while within the race as you practice to take care of that velocity over 50m, whereas quick course you solely want to carry it for 25m earlier than you flip.
Do you inspire your self in a different way for SC than for LC? How?
I hold my motivation the identical, to me it’s all racing. Whether or not is within the little pool or the large pool I view each competitions as alternatives to race quick and decide up methods in enhancing my efficiency. To me, that’s my motivation!
Understanding that you just’re heading into the Canadian winter, do you make any particular preparation or take any particular gadgets that can assist you within the freezing temperatures?
I’m bringing a pleasant heat jacket, hat and gloves and a few heated clothes……. And that’s only for poolside 😉 I like to remain heat!
