Morning Workout at SMU : Speakers & Interviews

SMU has known how to sprint for years. Back in the late 70's the summer SMU team put together two 200 free relays at one of last meets before nationals. The "B" relay won and got the american record. (only held it for a week)

Garrett, you should come out here to Stanford. I know Skip wouldn't let you near his practice(he will suspect you of spying and set up some kind of counter-espionage, no joke), but you could check out the girls practice or PASAs practice. Plus it is the nicest campus and nicest swim complex in the country, with no real comparison actually.

Are you kidding me AMAHANEYGETSHYPHY? Lets see.. the 50 free last year at C-USA.. SMU got 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 6th in the final.. SMU knows how to sprint and will dominate C-USA.

HAWAII WILL WIN CONFERENCE USA CHAMPS. CHEE HEE.

Forget swim coach, Eddie Sinnott is just a really outstanding person that teaches his kids a lot more than just dropping time!

A lot of the time at early season (September-October, April) workouts we will pound out a TON of dryland, then have a practice like this. The idea is to be able to maintain good techniques when it hurts, so that later in the season during challenging sets/races, your stroke form doesn't break down just because it is painful.

that pool has the best dual meet atmosphere i have every experienced..very far from a dump of a pool

IT looks to me like these guys ran a good hour before they hopped in the pool. They then worked on Technique for about thirty minutes. ALl in all I would say there hear rate was up about 150 for the majority of this practice. Sounds to me like a perfect early season morning workout. Sinnot is a stud.

I'm a younger coach, and I love watching Eddie's vids here. Does anyone here come from a program where a practice like this NEVER takes place? Is it monster sets all day every day? If floswim ever came to my practice I would probably change what I had going on to a set I thought would impress. That's dumb, but I'm being honest. Here's a coach confident enough to give a glimpse into what they are doing, why they are doing it, without trying to show off. His results speak for themselves, and his swimmers look fit with good technique.

This video does a nice job of showing younger coaches (me) that it is ok to take the time to work on technique. There are lots and lots of famous coaches who say a workout that doesn't include some form of technique work is a bad workout day. This seems like an AM recovery day that is heavy on technique...which sounds like a great idea. What, are Eddies guys not doing well enough for anyone??? Maybe all the people who are mad about this workout should maybe check their rosters for as many good swimmers Eddie has produced over the years - you have more national qualifiers than him please complain :)

ps. Really? - I have the same problem with floswimming from time to time but this isn't "the land of the free" - it is floswimming.org - they have the right to control their content. If you want freedom of speech: start your own site :)

Shawn,

I've coached at least one twelve year old to a AA standard. Does that count?

Let he who has coached more All-Americans and Olympians than Eddie Sinnot cast the first stone. Otherwise, keep your mouth shut and enjoy Garrett's great WWW offering.

There's also a chance that this is representative of an Eddie Sinnott practice, and I still think its good. From the looks of it he has got a team full of guys that are in very good physical condition. He may not feel the need to condition them further in the pool. He's looking situationally and trying to decide whats best for his program.

Let's put this into context - it's a snapshot of a midweek session (which includes running) that's all, and it's good to see it.

Eddie Sinnott is a veteran of multiple Olympics and was on the US Team in China - I think he knows what he is doing. It is clear that this is a technique based session not a workload based one. The proof of the pudding will be in the water at the Meet.
We should admire these guys (and many others across the country) up at 6 am to pursue their sport before class. If you can't find anything useful to say don't say anything !

this is weak
everyone knows what running looks like
are they a swim team or a track team

to Really? Anyone as passionate as you are about free speech, and as willing to be negative, should be willing sign their name. You're right, most of the posts on this site are reasonably positive even if they state some disagreement or questions. (Thus as a fan of the site I don't mind them being unsigned) Pissy juvenile mind farts that don't bring anything to the table, such as yours, are a waste of our time. I don't think it is free speech you defend, I think it is only your speech that you like to hear.

"shaking hands with the water." great description

"Good job today, go get an A" lolz. I bet everyone without class went and fell back asleep haha.

On the note of complaints, I believe criticism is good. A knowledgeable person is going to decipher and weed out which good AND bad comments are constructive and will help that individual gain MORE knowledge on the topic.
What youtube did with the thumbs up/down and letting a user decide if a comment has so many down thumbs not to display it when they are looking at comments is a good idea imo. Another idea may be seperating comments into trees or such.

Workout Wednesdays is something to look forward to, and after awhile your archives will hold a true buffet of approaches....some early AM, others pre-
meets, others just to keep sane during high stress times. Looking forward to
learning how some of the other guys do it.
Any time a seasoned coach takes out the chalkboard, I think he's spent time thinking about his systematic approach. I'm open to learn something! Thanks.

Really?: No one here has infringed on your right to like or dislike a video/workout. From what I gathered you are just concluding the wrong thing from this 'snapshot' (and that is really what all these videos are) of their training regime. I am sure SMU practices (in the water) somewhere between 8 and 11 practices a week and all of the practices are not like this (once again still assuming). I would point to *good pt.* and and *not impressed?* as evidence of your igronance twoard the new and evolving sport of swimming because they are right. A little less (in most cases) is now more, as far as training goes.

Floswimming is not a good representation of the US. Anytime someone writes anything on these walls that is anything bad about the video, the comments get erased. what does that say about freedom of speech? As long as the comments aren't using bad language then whoever is erasing them should stop. it isn't and won't be good for business. You are taking away a person's right of speech. Don't take that away from me. Not every video on here is good and not every video is bad. take the good with the bad please.

I'll say it again until I know that everyone reads my messages.
This workout was not hard. Yea, running in the morning might be a little hard, but only because it's so early. the workout, sure it's good for tech but not for getting a swimmer into shape! That was an easy morning.
So erase this if you want but I am copying this and i will continue to re-paste this.

it's so few of them

Not impressed?: good point, the new age of swimming is full of the "less is more" mentatility. Coaches are now discovering that giving their swimmers one afternoon (at least) off a week is actually more beneficial than having them train all the time.

cobra: thanks for the info... 3-4 sounds pretty good... I by no means think 3-4 miles is easy... I think it is essential to remember that these are swimmers who run not runners who swim.

excellent recovery workout. Dosen't have to be mega distance to be aerobic.

3-4 miles. This isn't as "easy" as people say it is. As Eddie said, his swimmers just came off a killer leg workout the day before. He knows what he is talking about. He just got back from Beijing and has many successful swimmers on the world scale. Steve Lundquist and Lars Frolander ring a bell anyone?

how long was the run? I can see that when they started it was dark and when they finished it was fairly light outside. Just wonderin the mileage...

hey! not impressed.. swimming has moved on from the dark age of TRAIN-TRAIN-TRAIN-TRAIN all day long... coaches (and swimmers) are now discovering that less is sometimes more. Now don't get me wrong, if that is all they did everyday then there would have problems, however I am sure that this drill orentieated practice is not a daily occurance. As a swimmer I can confidentaly say that to have a coach who believes in recovery not only helps the team as a whole, it helps the swimmer individually.

I loved the editing job where you would cut back and forth between him saying the drill and them performing it, made it a lot easier to visualize. I definitely agree with the earlier posts, morning practice isn't about killing it, just get in and get some solid technique work in, especially early in the season

Good stuff! I'm liking this group/coach. They desire/energy level/playfulness of this group seems to be lacking. Maybe you didn't capture that on video... granted it is AM workout and they probably don't want to move much haha. Not saying I expect top teams to be goofing off, but if anyone else knows what I mean the video just down right lacks energy in the environment of the workout.

Not Impressed.....that workout was not posted to impress or rival a Texas workout. The sole purpose was to let everyone have some insight on SMU swimming and Eddie Sinnot. I'm sure they got killed or at least worked pretty hard that afternoon

Mitchell Johnson is the man!

Colton Ingraham is the man!

Considering that it is September, seems like aerobic work and technique based swimming makes some sense.

at a college program, by the time you get to thursday during the week, your body is just crushed from doubles and weights, so you need a workout that will give you a chance to recover

More than likely they are going to do their more intense swimming workout in the afternoon, this seemed like it was just to get them up and moving and get some good technique work in.

don't get me wrong, drills and technique work are essential, but there was nothing challenging about this practice. running was the only thing that was an aerobic exercise but they didn't really do anything worthwhile in the pool besides 25's drill

Best college duel meet pool in the country!!! The atmosphere inside this old pool during a swim meet is awesome. Its swimmings equivalent of what an SEC football player feels like on the field playing in front of 90,000 on Saturdays. Everything inside is wood, so the sound is loud. Its an intimate atmosphere, with the stands horse shoeing around the 6 lane pool. The deck tyles heat up for crying out loud! Its rich in tradition, which you have to love and respect... If your a college swimmer, you should beg your coach to set up a meet with SMU... Swimming at this pool is one of those experiences every swimmer deserves to experience!

We wanna be Michael not Milorad