Wrong Definitions

A special acquaintance of mine once said, 'All scientific problems stem from wrong definitions.' You have to contemplate that statement for a few decades to fully understand it, or at least I did, but it has relevence to coaching philosophy. Ages ago, well, last November, I published a piece about Bob Bowmans's 'Five Keys to Success.' One of the elements was Speed and pace training: “How the time is swum is just as important as how fast the time is swum."

This reminds me of a much more succinct encapsulation of the same approach, 'It's not about how fast you swim but about how you swim fast.'
The quote is courtesy of Hamilton Smith, Fellow of the British Swim Coaches and Teachers Association.