Why Training Isn't Working

And How to Fix It by Seeing What Actually Matters

Why Training Isn't Working is a practical swimming training and coaching book for readers who want to understand development beyond a single race time or one successful session.

It focuses on recognising what holds, what changes and where performance begins to break. The central idea is to look for repeatable patterns that reveal what a swimmer can currently support, rather than treating isolated outcomes as proof of development.

The book introduces the Capability Series approach to competitive swimming: training provides a stimulus, capability develops over time, and performance expresses that capability under particular conditions.