When you analyze the past year, you can see how training has progressed and expanded its horizons in swimming.
You can clearly see that every time I significantly improved my results and efficiency in swimming compared to more advanced swimmers, I would first receive comments regarding the changes I made in training, and then I would be moved to a group that was less favorable for them in terms of work. Fortunately, this only helped me master training with that group. In the end, I was left with only children who had limited physical and mental abilities. For me, this was a special motivation to develop a training strategy for that category and it was the greatest honor to help those children. My approach to life and training is such that it only leads to progress, and no matter how hard you try to limit my progress, I always become better, and in fact, thanks to them.
There is no way to approach such people with reason and humanity. I tried many times. It's something that is embedded in you from birth.
My goal is to make the most efficient use of a child's physical potential, while theirs is to keep them in groups as long as possible to collect membership fees. I had almost the same situation in my other specialty, about which I also published a book. Of course, the best advertisement for the results you achieve is your success, but their achievements and ambitions in this regard are not even close to mine.
In normal environments of the civilized world, proper training to achieve top results is a highly profitable business, and there is no amount of money that many would not give to become champions in swimming, even in the local environment where they are.
Water is a thousand times denser than air. The pulse is constantly high, and lactic acid is not the only obstacle to reaching peak form. The magic is in knowing the right moves.
Today, after decades of experience and everything I have seen and heard in professional and amateur sports, I am completely sure that only a few people know the true magic of achieving strong, explosive, and effectively precise movements in sports. That is the secret that is difficult to uncover and which coaches normally do not reveal. So, I won't talk about it now, but I will talk about what is harmful.
Depending on the sport, if you treat a muscle in the wrong way, it will regress. You can exhaust it, overstrain it, deplete its energy stores, and make it slower, with the body feeling overtrained.
To achieve speed in arm rotation in the water and powerful pushes and kicks in the water, you cannot apply classical plyometrics, except for the starting jump into the water.
The way you perform the exercise, the tempo, the number of repetitions and sets, and especially the intensity, are of the utmost importance. The compatibility of exercises is of the greatest significance.
The worst thing is that any misstep in this regard significantly worsens the situation. And returning to the starting point to reset to the original state is a long process. Of course, I am talking about the subtleties of professional sports.
For example, just one wrong treatment in a professional athlete’s training leads to a drop in results, which requires weeks and sometimes months of proper training to return to the previous parameters of speed and strength.
Of course, the main fact in this story is that if the next training is not adequate in developing the athlete's potential, but instead extinguishes it, it is to the detriment of something that is not meaningful for the athlete.
For example, if you attack speed with too many exercises or repetitions that are not done correctly or at the proper rhythm, you will program the muscle for the wrong settings, literally exhausting it with inadequate movements, and it will lose the previously gained speed, become empty and tired, and as a result, inaccurate and imprecise in movement patterns.
Maximum strength and force, as well as hypertrophy as a precursor, must be precisely performed and applied to each individual. Certainly, the most effective way to train is only if it is applied individually. One cannot train the same exercises for a person with a strong torso but weak limbs and for a person with strong limbs but a weak torso.
I have witnessed completely inefficient ways of training and adopting general principles that have been repeated for years, even though they are only applicable at the beginning.
Today, I regard proper training understanding as one of the most valuable aspects in my knowledge repository and a tangible quality for achieving sports performance that leads to the winner's throne.
The greatest magic lies in the knowledge that a coach applies in the most efficient way, assessing the athlete’s capabilities and every moment during the training process.
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