Half Of Your Short Course Race Is Walls.

Three Key Learning Points:

* In a 100 metre short course race, 50 metres of it is affected by walls.

* Dive starts, turns and finishes are not skill work sitting beside your training. They are half the race.

* Every dive is a race dive. Every turn is a race turn. Build it into what you’re already doing.

Short course racing.

Some people love it. Some people not so much.

But when I talk to coaches about their short course plans, their programs and their workouts, they nearly always go one of two ways.

The first group says - it’s short course, it’s a 25 metre pool, so we’ll do a lot more sprints.

I get that. There’s something in it for a lot of coaches.

The second group says the opposite - short course isn’t as demanding as long course, so we need to do more work. More laps. More volume heading into the short course season.

You can argue either case.

But I want you to consider a third option, and it comes from doing some very simple arithmetic.