Thanks, Brett. Appreciate you getting all sorts of varied feedback from different experts, and in this case, from a different field, to back up swimming sprint training. Cheers, mate.
What a great, informative interview. I was recruited to the distance track and field team at age 10!! I could just run long distance with relative ease. I tried out for the long jump and sprinting races at around 14. I didnt make either one. I lacked the power and speed but I could keep up really well with the 8 mile runs. The training for the sprinters and the long distance runners was completely different. We had separate coaches, etc. We also tend to look different. Track sprinters and marathon teunners look like night and day. This is most obvious with the male runners.
Great stuff, I had to abandon my club, they had some very old ideas that were just too stupid, Im gonna let the results speak for themselves, and they will have to either adapt or die, the sprint revolution is here to stay!!
Kettlebell exponent Pavel Tsatsouline has been extolling the virtues of his A + A training for years which is kind of similar. Happy to see that this type of thinking is breaking through to swimming training. Great interview and thanks for sharing this information.
To increase RFP you need a higher ceiling of strength so I would disagree with him a good bit here. Not to say it’s not important in fact the opposite. Maximal strength is a key component for RFP. Also his statement on muscle adaptation is extremely outdated with the notion that fibers “breakdown” to be “rebuilt” we know now that damage recovery and hypertrophy muscle recovery are two DIFFERENT mechanisms in the body.
Thanks for developing your work in the Sprint Revolution, Brett. Questions: Not more than 150 m distance intervals preparing for a 400m track and field race? I don't see how you can exclude some 300's and 600's in to their training. Also, I'm wondering about the need to monitor any changes (+ or -) that occur in the athletes' techniques when they're beefing up force productions (running or sprinting). Merry Christmas there!
How does this reconcile with the success of the Sandpipers of Nevada, or the fact that maybe three of the best male swimmers of the last 20 years all came from distance based programs (Phelps, Lochte, Dressel). And then there is Popov who regularly went 9,000m practices albeit slow deliberate swimming. And of course we can go further back to the Laurie Lawrence days (Jon Sieben, Duncan Armstrong) and the daily 40x100s warmup. And as an aside in identifying what an athlete is (sprinter or non-athlete) where would a Ryk Neethling fit in. Is he an accidental miler (NCAA Champion) or an accidental sprinter (Gold Medal 4x100 relay)? Probably a stupid or out of context question. I just ask myself this all the time as I transition away from pure distance based programming. In any event thank you very much for putting this stuff out there. Listening to it all.
I am totally receptive to everything Coach Kula says but I do have one question: in the example he gives where he coached a swim team in track sprinting and they broke all records that season: how is it possible to tease out the work that the swim coach was doing with them? That is, if the swim coach brought in Coach Kula it stands to reason that he (the swim coach) shared a similar philosophy about speed training and may have already been applying similar principles to his swim training..
I keep hearing this idea that track is way ahead of swimming, but I never hear any details as to why that is. It seems to me as though swimming performance is improving at all levels. I don't know anything about track, so maybe it's on fire even beyond what I'm seeing in swimming. Is there a video or good article that describes how track performances are way ahead of swimming performances?
What if your kid is good at sprinting and at long distance my kid won the 50 yrd free and the 500 free state title for 10 and unders. We have always trained tempo, and speed and get rid of useless yards. Which is club team doesnt like. Hes not the fastest in running on land has an average vertical and is much smaller then the other kids. But hes powerful and has a fast stroke rate
Mr. Hawke, please continue to do all you can to drag swim training out of the dark ages!
Doing my best
Watching the Cameron McEvoy interview and then this one has to be the biggest lightbulb moment I’ve ever had in the sport of swimming
Thank you 🙏🏻 please share it out
Thanks, Brett. Appreciate you getting all sorts of varied feedback from different experts, and in this case, from a different field, to back up swimming sprint training. Cheers, mate.
I need everyone to share it so more people can see this type of thing in swimming
What a great, informative interview.
I was recruited to the distance track and field team at age 10!! I could just run long distance with relative ease. I tried out for the long jump and sprinting races at around 14. I didnt make either one. I lacked the power and speed but I could keep up really well with the 8 mile runs. The training for the sprinters and the long distance runners was completely different. We had separate coaches, etc. We also tend to look different. Track sprinters and marathon teunners look like night and day. This is most obvious with the male runners.
Great stuff, I had to abandon my club, they had some very old ideas that were just too stupid, Im gonna let the results speak for themselves, and they will have to either adapt or die, the sprint revolution is here to stay!!
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Kettlebell exponent Pavel Tsatsouline has been extolling the virtues of his A + A training for years which is kind of similar. Happy to see that this type of thinking is breaking through to swimming training. Great interview and thanks for sharing this information.
Super informative. Great interview. Thanks to both of you!
This is an awesome interview!! More sports should have crossover talk. Great question and answers
brett could you spend a few episodes/ make some videos regarding sets/planning and technique sometime? would love to hear what ques you use.
Awesome video! That’s the sprint revolution
What Brian is taking about at 42.27 is the truth about muscle fibre density vs power / speed ratio. Perfect. Light strong quick , body's.
To increase RFP you need a higher ceiling of strength so I would disagree with him a good bit here. Not to say it’s not important in fact the opposite. Maximal strength is a key component for RFP. Also his statement on muscle adaptation is extremely outdated with the notion that fibers “breakdown” to be “rebuilt” we know now that damage recovery and hypertrophy muscle recovery are two DIFFERENT mechanisms in the body.
Thanks for developing your work in the Sprint Revolution, Brett. Questions: Not more than 150 m distance intervals preparing for a 400m track and field race? I don't see how you can exclude some 300's and 600's in to their training. Also, I'm wondering about the need to monitor any changes (+ or -) that occur in the athletes' techniques when they're beefing up force productions (running or sprinting). Merry Christmas there!
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How does this reconcile with the success of the Sandpipers of Nevada, or the fact that maybe three of the best male swimmers of the last 20 years all came from distance based programs (Phelps, Lochte, Dressel). And then there is Popov who regularly went 9,000m practices albeit slow deliberate swimming. And of course we can go further back to the Laurie Lawrence days (Jon Sieben, Duncan Armstrong) and the daily 40x100s warmup. And as an aside in identifying what an athlete is (sprinter or non-athlete) where would a Ryk Neethling fit in. Is he an accidental miler (NCAA Champion) or an accidental sprinter (Gold Medal 4x100 relay)?
Probably a stupid or out of context question. I just ask myself this all the time as I transition away from pure distance based programming. In any event thank you very much for putting this stuff out there. Listening to it all.
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I am totally receptive to everything Coach Kula says but I do have one question: in the example he gives where he coached a swim team in track sprinting and they broke all records that season: how is it possible to tease out the work that the swim coach was doing with them? That is, if the swim coach brought in Coach Kula it stands to reason that he (the swim coach) shared a similar philosophy about speed training and may have already been applying similar principles to his swim training..
Do you have a program that mcovy follows for sprints
Should swimmers go to the track and do sprint work outs?
I keep hearing people talk about "central nervous system training" but im not sure what this means at all.
How fast do you reckon dressel would be if he trained like McEvoy for the last 4 years?
20.5 or below for 50 free?
Yes.
I keep hearing this idea that track is way ahead of swimming, but I never hear any details as to why that is. It seems to me as though swimming performance is improving at all levels. I don't know anything about track, so maybe it's on fire even beyond what I'm seeing in swimming. Is there a video or good article that describes how track performances are way ahead of swimming performances?
Took an hour to say, do 4 x 25 on a good rest.
That's it, there are literally no more secrets about sprinting...
We be doing this for a while now 👊🏻
InsidewithBrettHawke facts are best 100m swimming has improvement over the last 30yr vs 100m running or 400m
We’ve had technology advancements in that time
What if your kid is good at sprinting and at long distance my kid won the 50 yrd free and the 500 free state title for 10 and unders. We have always trained tempo, and speed and get rid of useless yards. Which is club team doesnt like. Hes not the fastest in running on land has an average vertical and is much smaller then the other kids. But hes powerful and has a fast stroke rate