Ultra Short Training At Race Pace

thought y'all might want to see this: Questions pertaining to USRPT (Ultra Short Race Pace Training) may be directed at info@swimmingscience.net with the subject line “Cam USRP Group”. The discussion panel continues to grow every week. Many coaches incorporate some form of “high intensity”/”race simulation” sets in their training structure. However, high intensity sets are not sufficient to qualify a swimmer as training in a USRPT structure. USRPT is a set of principles for MAXimizing the volume of race pace training that can be performed. Many coaches are not willing to maximize this volume because they believe that other things can be more important than maximizing speed in particular events. Extremely competition specific training is not new to the sporting world, as it has been adopted by athletes in other cyclic and total body sports like rowing and cross country skiing at the Olympic level. Athletes in other countries (not USA) are adopting it to greater and greater extents, and it is only a matter of time before the US Swim community realizes that catching up matters. If the concept of USRPT training is wholly new to you, I recommend checking out the 2 and 8 page bulletins 40a and 40b at the following url coachsci.sdsu.edu/.../table.htm If you make it through, and are hungry for more, review bulletin 39 as well. The principle of specificity governs all sporting adaptation. You are what you repeat. Race-pace training *is* aerobic systems training. I encourage you to review the aforementioned papers for a detailed explanation, but quite frankly supposed measures of “general” aerobic/endurance capacity (VO2 Max, “Lactate Threshold”, etc) just don’t match up with competition performance. Phelps and Lochte are at the top of an arena field where every single one of their competitors trained with the idea that non-competition specific activity IS relevant to performance. There isn’t anything odd about some people doing exceptionally well despite running under the same basic training principle: it’s a normal distribution curve. In time, someone with the right genetic potential will meet a coach/team that is willing to run a USRPT program fully. Nobody is making any promises that USRPT is a “magic bullet” that will transform sinkers into Olympians. Different people will have different ceilings, just as in any other sport or activity (school, music, etc). But exercise science literature indicates that USRPT is the most effective way to enable individuals to fulfill their *individual* FULL POTENTIAL… I invite people interested in continuing discussion further to reach out to the aforementioned email address. info@swimmingscience.net Subject Line: “Cam USRP Group”

thought y'all might want to see this: Questions pertaining to USRPT (Ultra Short Race Pace Training) may be directed at info@swimmingscience.net with the subject line “Cam USRP Group”. The discussion panel continues to grow every week. Many coaches incorporate some form of “high intensity”/”race simulation” sets in their training structure. However, high intensity sets are not sufficient to qualify a swimmer as training in a USRPT structure. USRPT is a set of principles for MAXimizing the volume of race pace training that can be performed. Many coaches are not willing to maximize this volume because they believe that other things can be more important than maximizing speed in particular events. Extremely competition specific training is not new to the sporting world, as it has been adopted by athletes in other cyclic and total body sports like rowing and cross country skiing at the Olympic level. Athletes in other countries (not USA) are adopting it to greater and greater extents, and it is only a matter of time before the US Swim community realizes that catching up matters. If the concept of USRPT training is wholly new to you, I recommend checking out the 2 and 8 page bulletins 40a and 40b at the following url coachsci.sdsu.edu/.../table.htm If you make it through, and are hungry for more, review bulletin 39 as well. The principle of specificity governs all sporting adaptation. You are what you repeat. Race-pace training *is* aerobic systems training. I encourage you to review the aforementioned papers for a detailed explanation, but quite frankly supposed measures of “general” aerobic/endurance capacity (VO2 Max, “Lactate Threshold”, etc) just don’t match up with competition performance. Phelps and Lochte are at the top of an arena field where every single one of their competitors trained with the idea that non-competition specific activity IS relevant to performance. There isn’t anything odd about some people doing exceptionally well despite running under the same basic training principle: it’s a normal distribution curve. In time, someone with the right genetic potential will meet a coach/team that is willing to run a USRPT program fully. Nobody is making any promises that USRPT is a “magic bullet” that will transform sinkers into Olympians. Different people will have different ceilings, just as in any other sport or activity (school, music, etc). But exercise science literature indicates that USRPT is the most effective way to enable individuals to fulfill their *individual* FULL POTENTIAL… I invite people interested in continuing discussion further to reach out to the aforementioned email address. info@swimmingscience.net Subject Line: “Cam USRP Group”