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How Training Has Changed Since the Onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic<\/strong><\/p>\n

Four years removed from the worldwide shutdown due to COVID-19, aquatics has re-established a rhythm of training and championships. Paris beckons the world for a second Olympics since, and coaches have resumed mentoring their charges to faster times and a better existence. For many, that has meant a reassessment of the \u201cold way\u201d of training and looking at life.<\/em><\/p>\n

In March 2020, thanks to a global pandemic, much of the world went on pause. In the U.S., among many other national measures, the NCAA responded by canceling all its championship swim meets. In short, COVID came, saw and conquered, leaving swimmers and coaches wondering, \u201cWhat comes next?\u201d<\/p>\n

The answer for many was an altered way of doing business and living life. Those in aquatics faced seismic changes as closed facilities, limited exposure and reduced hours forced coaches to re-evaluate how to train their charges in a new world environment. What followed was soul searching and epiphanies in order to successfully continue training a ready, willing and able swimming population.<\/p>\n

COVID led to introspection regarding training cycles, efficiency, dryland, kicking, recovery, mental health, communication, coach patience and education, among other key ingredients. Says University of Virginia head coach Todd DeSorbo<\/strong>, \u201cDuring COVID, we learned a lot regarding how much training means.\u201d He\u2019s not alone.<\/p>\n

IN PALO ALTO<\/strong><\/p>\n

Time and maturation on the job has wrought change in both art and man. Tony Batis<\/strong>, head coach at Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics, has coached for more than 30 years. \u201cWhen looking at training over my career, the key influencer to my training changes has been time\u2014how much we have, how we view it, how we spend it and how much is required to get the desired result.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, it has been an evolution from what I knew as an athlete, which carried over to my early years of coaching, followed by a better understanding of swimming science, and then creating training systems to address the needs of the athletes,\u201d says Batis.\u00a0\u201cFinally, the global pandemic created a reset in my thoughts and emerged as a more streamlined view of getting the job done. This was impacted primarily by facility availability, mindset of the post-COVID athlete and their families, along with a desire for more resets for all.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the late \u201980s and early \u201990s, my general thought was to put forth two-to-three training cycles per year with periods of high volume training, race planning\/speed development and rest. My first shift came in the late \u201990s and early 2000s when the notion of longer periods of race pace training, coupled with higher volumes of kicking and a more nuanced dryland program, became a larger part of my approach. Our weekly volume dropped about 10-15% on average, but the intensity of workouts along with skill-based drills and movements went up.<\/p>\n

\u201cPost-pandemic, I have lost about 15% pre-pandemic water time,\u201d he notes. \u201cAs a result, I have created an approach and work balance that allows enough time for work and perpetuation of a culture and environment that families want to be a part of. These days, we get our work done in less time, but still find hours for individual and group meetings as well as gatherings featuring guest speakers from within and without the aquatic world.\u201d<\/p>\n

IN FLORIDA<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a beginning coach like Batis, Liz Kershaw<\/strong>, head coach of Hurricane Aquatics in Coral Gables, used a structured training cycle. \u201cMonday morning was aerobic, Tuesday afternoon was quality, etc. I moved away from that some in the\u00a0mid-2000s and looked at it more from a two-to-three-week cycle standpoint. I wanted to get in X many kick days, Y many quality days, and moved things around based on meets and holidays within that three-week training cycle.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring COVID, I was forced back to a structured set week for 12-to-14 months. We were fortunate to have the ability to swim in the\u00a0ocean, so even though our pool time was limited, we were able to expand our open\u00a0water time. We did three open water days per week, which tended to be aerobic swimming and lots of kicking. Our two-to-three pool workouts were always high quality. We only had 60 minutes of pool time, so I was forced to be very efficient and specific with workouts, and they had a different look than ever before. We did some dryland prep\u00a0before getting in; then it was go time,\u201d says Kershaw.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince COVID, our team has done a hybrid of the two training mindsets. We have kept Tuesday and Saturday as quality days.\u00a0I have retained fluidity with kick sets, keeping stress days much more dialed in.\u00a0We kick two-to-three days with longer kick sets during non-meet weeks and early season. Later in the season and on meet weeks, we sprinkle in smaller kick sets daily, and only go one big 1500+ yards kick set.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do much more dryland now than when I first started coaching, and it has a lot more structure and specificity. In the early years of coaching club, it was more abs and general preventative shoulder stability, stretch cords and other things. Even when I was coaching college, 1999-2003, if we were not in the weight room, dryland was more generalized,\u201d she says.\u00a0\u201cSince 2020, our club has been very specific with exercise progression and how dryland fits into a training cycle or body movement in the water.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese days, we go for generalized stability and flexibility early in the season, and then we move to explosive power-type movements later on. I really like seeing the increased flexibility, strength and power as a result of more focused dryland. While the transition may not be directly related to training during 2020-21, that period when we were forced to spend more time out of the water and swam fast made me re-evaluate what we should do when pool time became available again. Our success due to more focused dryland keeps the coaching staff believing the crossover is beneficial,\u201d says Kershaw.<\/p>\n

AN OLYMPIAN PERSPECTIVE<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick<\/p><\/div>\n

Bruce Gemmell<\/strong>, 2016 assistant Olympic coach, is the father of two credentialed international medalists (Andrew and Erin Gemmell<\/strong>) and former coach of Katie Ledecky<\/strong>. These days, he coaches 15- and 17-year-olds at Nation\u2019s Capital Swimming. \u201cCOVID forced us to be more efficient,\u201d he asserts. \u201cThe question is should we continue that efficiency, or is that a detriment to the long-term development of the swimmer? I don\u2019t know the answer, but I think we are going to find out. Some coaches have been very successful with shorter work sessions. I\u2019m an Old School guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Will he go back to the old way? \u201cSort of…and it depends,\u201d he says. \u201cThere are some athletes in some events where we can continue with that: 400 IMers, long course-2 flyers and milers. I think we better go back to Old School stuff.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not training 15-and-17s as I used to. When I was young, I had one tool, and I was going to make everyone a 400 IMer. As you get older, you get more tools. I train all swimmers better now. I\u2019m wiser now, more patient and putting more importance on kicking, dryland and speed,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

HEAD SPACE<\/strong><\/p>\n

During COVID, Jack Roach<\/strong>, former national junior team director for USA Swimming, was director of coach-and-athlete development for TIDE Swimming in Virginia Beach, Va. There, the TIDE coaches rediscovered the importance of engaging their athletes emotionally and psychologically…as have others.<\/p>\n

At SwimRVA in Richmond, Va., Coach Jonathan Kaplan<\/strong> notes that since COVID, connectivity with athletes is more paramount. \u201cI\u2019ve always been a proponent of focusing on building the person over the athlete,\u201d he says. \u201cEvents of the last few years have reinforced my belief that all coaches and athletes need to focus more on mental health and emotional balance than ever before.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have always emphasized process over performance, and that is paying off big-time now. We continue to get faster, but it is happening because we are taking a lot of pressure off the athletes\u2014something that is more critical now than ever. As a result, athlete resiliency is better than ever,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

MORE AWARENESS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Michael Phelps<\/strong>, Simone Biles<\/strong>, Simone Manuel<\/strong>, Allison Schmitt<\/strong> and Missy Franklin<\/strong>, among others, have not only brought mental health into the national conversation, but have reoriented coach thinking and subsequent training. \u201cComing back from COVID, I\u2019ve had to be a little more patient,\u201d says Emory head coach Jon Howell<\/strong>. \u201cWe\u2019ve really focused a lot on mental health and psyche. At Emory, we\u2019ve created an endowment to raise awareness of mental health. That\u2019s been a priority,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Practices, both in-water and dryland, have received a second look as well. Jeff Dugdale<\/strong> at Queens recalls that after COVID, training went\u00a0\u201cto another level because athletes realized they weren\u2019t promised tomorrow and that a season could be canceled with a moment\u2019s notice.\u201d He also became more flexible, adaptable and introduced more recovery into the team\u2019s training regimen. \u201cThese days, I do not hesitate to give someone off if I feel they need it.\u201d<\/p>\n

THE UNKNOWN<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe isolation of the pandemic created more extremes in swimmer psyche and demanded a different training approach,\u201d says Batis. \u201cThere are some who thrive in isolation and come out of challenges stronger than before. For them, it created higher highs, lower lows and a greater need for understanding stress and anxiety management. This, coupled with facilities shutting down, higher costs in general, less pool time and a smaller pool of candidates for coaching positions, has influenced how we approach training,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cMore than ever, we now need more awareness of everyone\u2019s mind space\u2014including our own\u2014as much as the training plan for the day. Factoring in mental health is always a good thing and can lead to better coaching and stronger performance\u2014but was not always a consideration and needed an adaptive period. The challenges of longer school days and earlier starts to the academic year impacted when and how we compete and when families and swimmers could find their own personal time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe influence of social media and watching athletes of all ages perform at higher levels more often (i.e., \u201cDid you hear what so-and-so went last weekend?\u201d) has become more of a norm in swimming. And while you want to stick to \u2018your plan,\u2019 it is definitely an influence on how we view performance. This is especially true when considering visibility with college programs and the interest shown based on how fast one swims (during their) freshman, sophomore years or at earlier meets,\u201d says Batis.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat said, the highest performing athletes always find a way. One thing remains true, the \u2018Swimming Bus\u2019 is always moving forward with swimmers getting faster and faster. You may have to make changes so as not to miss the bus, but in the big picture, just being aware of the bus and how it runs will make you better, irrespective of its speed,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Michael J. Stott is an ASCA Level 5 coach, golf and swimming writer. His critically acclaimed coming-of-age golf novel,\u00a0\u201cToo Much Loft,\u201d\u00a0is in its third printing, and is available from store.Bookbaby.com, Amazon, B&N and book distributors worldwide.<\/em><\/p>\n

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