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This principle permeates through all our training method – improvements in qualities, especially internal qualities, lead to improvements in quantities. This is readily understood and embraced in so many other fields and sports, but for some reason it is not so common swimming.
Everyone measures externals – like time, distance, speed, the number of repeats, etc – because it is easy to measure quantities, and most conventional training emphasizes this out of convenience. But the best kind of training develops internal qualities which are much more difficult to instruct and measure. That is probably a main reason why they are not emphasized as much in the common programs – well-intending instructors don’t know how to teach these.
But we are showing you how to recognize the qualities and develop them. You have all the tools you need to do it. Your nervous system is receiving and sending signals all the time, from every point in the body. With training for this skill, you are quite capable of increasing your awareness of these signals, of interpreting them accurately and sending better responses throughout your body.
Efficient swimming is not just about spending energy to go farther or faster. It is about learning to use energy well – which means using just enough energy, in the best way, to produce the desired effect. The use of energy all happens inside the body and produces effects outside the body which can be seen in the movement of water (like waves, splash, vortexes, etc) and in the movement of the body over distance and time (speed). When you use energy wastefully, it not only increases moving water around (waste), it not only slows you down (waste), poorly managed energy transfer in the body creates excess stress and wear-and-tear. It sets you up for injury and longer recoveries.
The swimmer’s dedication to improving and protecting qualities inside the body cannot be over-emphasized in this modern training climate where quantities are king and the injury rates among swimmers in the conventional swimming programs are scandalously high. For ‘older’ swimmers (those over 40) your longevity in swimming depends primarily on these qualities.
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