direstraits: [Supertraining] Re: Total time/volume of training

--- In Supertraining@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Rogers" <paulr99@...>
wrote:
>
> John, I think it's a fair post for discussion . . . and I think
Jamie
> only meant it as that.
>
> However, I must admit, I would be surprised if, for most sports,
> training time had not increasesed over the last twenty years. I
could
> be wrong, but it's just an impression.
>
> I read an article the other day that said that former world
swimming
> record holder in the 200m butterfly, Otylia Jedrzejczak, of Poland
> was swimming (yes, swimming) 90 kms/week in training in order to
get
> back in form for Beijing after a car accident.
>
> It sounds absurd to me, this volume, but it's not uncommon for
> distance swimmers to train 70kms/week -- and she's not even really
a
> distance athlete.

****
Henk Kraaijenhof wrote:
""Train as much as necessary not as much as possible. It is only the
anxiety of the coach because if they do less they can't say
afterwards "we did all we could". But instead they do everything and
afterwards all they did was destroy the athlete.""

================
Jamie Carruthers
Wakefield, UK

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