What Swim Coaches Don’t Understand About Sprinting with Brian Kula

What Swim Coaches Don’t Understand About Sprinting with Brian Kula

"Watching the Cameron McEvoy interview and then this one has to be the biggest lightbulb moment I’ve ever had in the sport of swimming." - Coach Sander

Yesterday’s interview is one of those episodes that you’ve gotta watch more than once because it is so full of actionable information!

Brian Kula, owner of Kula Sports Performance, brings over 25 years of experience in speed and performance training. He has worked with thousands of athletes including Christian McCaffrey and Anna Hall, presented at coaching clinics nationwide, and consulted for the NFL and over 30 universities.

He talks to Brett about…

• periodizing speed (you don’t)

• training the “high performance, high output, speed development energy system”

• force production

• the difference between power & speed

• how sprinting is all encompassing

• resting up to 48 hours between intense workouts

• active vs. passive recovery

• rep range in the gym (1-3 for power and 4-7 for strength)

• talent identification

• and much, much more

What are ya’ll doing to stimulate your swimmers’ central nervous systems?

Enjoy!

Listen on Apple Podcasts here.

Watch on YouTube here.

Time Stamps:

00:00 Hello Brian Kula 01:00 Friends with Tony Holler 02:00 Brian Kula's Background 03:15 Christian McCaffrey 04:45 Jim Bocci 06:00 Kula's System 09:00 Why are we doing 50K weeks? 10:30 Do you want to get really good at running slow? 12:00 Periodization for Speed 16:00 Can you train like this for a 100? 20:00 Why is swimming so far behind? 22:00 Resistance Training in Swimming 23:30 Force Production 26:00 Sprinting is All Encompassing 27:30 Rest & Recovery 29:30 Blending in Strength Training 31:30 Active vs. Passive Recovery 33:00 Youth Training Timelines 37:30 Bounce Fire Series 40:30 Difference between Speed & Power 41:30 Rep Range 43:30 Warm Up 45:30 Taper 47:45 Hawkin Dynamics 51:30 Reaching the Ceiling 53:00 Who's a Sprinter, and Who's Not? 56:00 KULASP.COM

Like this episode?

Leave us a comment:

• 👍 Another banger!

• 😐 It's fine.

• 👎 Weaakkkk sauce