She’s actually right. Less is more for power sports.
I’ll turn up to a session and do 3x 50m efforts and it’ll take me several hours.
Feel free to stalk my training.
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=74mqjctes8fmhj4nlfvqhtvnfk@group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Australia/Hobart
But… Rachel is missing the complementary training. On top of my ‘hard’ workouts
I also have physio once a week
I ride my bike to commute for at least 2h each day
I race every Friday
I swim every Sunday
I have a full time job (mon-fri 8-4), a husband, and I hang out with my friends and eat food/drink beer.
I would love to do a bit more, but life gets in the way.
Active recovery (stretching, physio, sports psychs, skills sets) are vital parts of training for a team mate and actual elite world champion. If you include those activities, I would say the hours for training would be a lot higher.