Your very own Hamden North Haven YMCA Typhoons coach was on Split Time with Garrett McCaffrey last night. We talked about caffeine restrictions and bans in the NCAA which has been a huge debate recently on pool decks and among coaches. Take a look through this link, or watch the video below:
This was an absolutely awesome swim for Michael Phelps and without a tech suit on as well! He gets the World Record once again, and proves that hard work and stroke technique are more important than technical advancements in competition suits!
Enjoy the video!
This past week marked a huge turning point for the technologically savvy racing suits; FINA has banned all tech suits and is requiring the traditional wooven suit be worn by all swimmers. With that said, swimmers have until the end of the year to wear their tech suits…the question on everyone’s mind is if this will actually have a significant impact on time drops and/or performance.
There is a relatively bold wave of rumors going around that Michael Phelps is currently trying to alter his freestyle technique into a more “tech savvy” and stroke efficient method.
So, with that in mind, keep your eyes open for his first meet in Mid-May in Charlotte!
There are several talks about the banning of the new tech. suits that significantly impacted these past Olympic games. As we know, these suits are banned in the U.S. for the 12 and under age group swimmers in order to preserve the competitive nature of the sport and take away the financial burden that these suits would have on young swimmers and their families.
However, now Australia is looking to ban the suits all together for the same reasons. That means that all age groups would not have access to the suits. In my opinion, I don’t think it is a good idea to restrict the access to these suits when the swimmers have reached a certain level. Maybe 13 is still a little bit too young to introduce these suits to the swimmers and maybe we should reconsider to move the age to 15. However, that being said, younger swimmers are becoming faster and faster each and every year. So, by the time that the 2012 Olympic Games come up we might be seeing several more 15 year olds at trials.
Again, this is just my opinion, but I think that Australia would be making a huge mistake if they were to remove the suits overall from all of their comptitions.
As I was browsing through a couple of the swimming forums, I came by a post that had some ideas of Michael Phelps and his workouts. I am curious to know if they are the actual workouts or a generic idea of his workout(s). Either way, I hope all of the Hamden North Haven Swim Team (the YMCA TYphoons) take a gander! This is an alleged workout that Michael Phelps did in 2001. I can only imagine what his workouts are currently!
Warm Up:
6x (50 free, 50 side kick, 50 fly drill, 50 pull buoy, 50 im, 50 im)
20x 100 on 1:15 (25 fly-50free-25fly)
500 stroke (50 kick 50 drill)
Main Set:
2000 timed kick stroke
–MP did free with a board and held per 500 (5:48.9-5:47.5-5:46.0-5:39.6)
4×100 IM drill continous
Pulling Set:
10x 200 on 3:00 odd =free (moderate) even=fly (fast)
4 Speed Set:
24×25 fly on :30 (1-ez drill, 1-no breath, 1-sprint)
after practice he did 500 abdominals and stretched
Feb 2002:
after a 4,500scy moderate am practice:
Warm-up:
800 mixer on 10:30
4×150 kick on 2:30 (50 stroke-50free-50stroke)
400 pull with buoy on 5:00 (breathe 3-5-7-9 by 100)
200 stroke on 3:00
10×50 on :45 (2-25kick/25drill 2-25free/25stroke 1-stroke)
Main Set:
4×50 on 1:30
1×50 1:20
1×50 1:10
1×50 1:00
1×50: :50
1×50 :40
1×50 :30
Long Swim Down
100-200-300 pull (lungbusters by quarters)
400 choice kick
300-200-100 IM Drills
In a previous post regarding Grant Hackett’s retirement (potential retirement at that time), it was the common thought that the world-class Australian swimmer would continue his career at least until 2010. Unfortunately, for the swimming world we have seen the final swim from Mr. Hackett.
While in Sydney on October 27th he announced his official retirement from the sport. However, he did so in (as expected) world-class fashion. He gave support and advice to his former younger teammates while thanking everyone that has been involved in his infamous career. Hackett was known as the ironman of swimming, and will always be an icon for young swimmers around the world. So, thank you, Grant Hackett for putting on great shows and for swimming for so long at such a high level!
There are several swimmers out there that have had, or are having shoulder issues/injuries. However, the debate right now in a lot of forums and social networking sites is if these shoulder injuries are preventable in swimmers. For me, personally and professionally, I absolutley think that a majority of the shoulder injuries can be prevented and/or controlled.
Here’s the catch, though…swimmer rotate their shoulders (if they are free, fly, or back) a significant number of times throughout the course of one practice. Now, let’s hypothetically say that a single swimmer rotates their arm 1500 times in a practice (relatively low, by the way). In a given week where they attend 5 practices they are rotating their shoulders 7000 times in a single week. The swim season is around 10 1/2 months long so roughly estimated you are rotating one arm close to 294,000 times in a year (on the low end of the spectrum).
With that information, how can anyone prevent a should injury if they are a swimmer?
Here are a few ways that you can control and prevent these injuries from occurring.
Again, these are only some suggestions on how to prevent and/or limit shoulder injuries in swimmers. I hope this helps some people out there, and please let me know if you have any other suggestions by leaving a comment!
As I was searching through the swimming forums today I came by a great video of Michael Phelps doing a vertical dolphin kick during practice. This, in my opinion, is one of the best ways to train for a dolphin kick, or any other type of kick because you are able to feel the entire movement of the water, your body, and your exact leg motions. It is the most natural position that you can get in (vertical) so you are able to feel slight corrections, differences, and improvements in your kick.
If you watch the video, you’ll notice that Phelps has a weight strapped on which is something that the Hamden North Haven Swim Team (the YMCA Typhoons) have not ventured into at this point. However, we might go into a modified version of this with our Senior and Junior groups. This is also a technique that I have used at other YMCA Swim Teams.
Enjoy the video!
On October 21, 2008 Michael Phelps will be in Toronto at The Power Within conference. With Barbara Walters hosting the event, there is a plethora of inspirational individuals slated to appear. The running list so far: Michael Phelps, Patrick Lencioni (author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team), Garry Kasparov (Chess grandmaster), Dr Muhammad Yunus (Nobel Peace Prize winner), Jeffrey Zaslow (author of The Last Lecture), Peter Sheahan (author of Generation X: Thriving with Generation Y at Work), and Phil Town (who will be speaking to successful investing).
I don’t know if there is or isn’t a T.V. channel that will broadcast this event to our Connecticut Swim Teams, but it will be something that I will keep an eye on and update our Hamden North Haven YMCA Swim Team and all of the Typhoon Swimming Blog readers.
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