Despite giving away his training methodology openly on multiple podcasts for years, McEvoy says zero Australian swim coaches have approached him to understand what's actually happening. He attributes the resistance to defensive inertia: coaches protect long-held beliefs by defaulting to energy-system arguments that misframe what the work is even targeting. Outside swimming—track, cycling, strength coaching—practitioners consistently tell him his approach is long overdue common sense.
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