Ultra Short Training At Race Pace

Have you done any USRPT sets? I find them much more aerobically challenging (and I'm an aerobic beast!) than the "old school" aerobic sets that I used to do! I agree. anyone who thinks there's not a significant aerobic capacity building component to something like 30 x 50 or 20 x 75 on 20 seconds rest at 200 race pace hasn't likely tried either set once, much less done them several times a week for different strokes. Either of your predictions could prove to be true, however, it won't necessarily be due to the fact that he trains USRPT exclusively. I think this is ridiculous. He is already fast enough to make finals at olympic trials. His 100 *** time would have tied him for 4th at trials in 2012 and his 100 fly, 200 IM and 50 free times would also have placed him in the finals in 2012 in those events. I think he has almost no chance of qualifying for the Olympics this year but he already has a very good chance of making more than one final even if he doesn't get any faster this year. Exactly. How many 17 year old boys who train "old skool" are gonna make the finals at the upcoming trials? Few, if any. Why? Because it's damn hard to make the finals, especially in an era where guys can earn a decent living in swimming and extend their careers into their early 30's. The average age of the US Men's team at the 2012 Olympics was 25.8. It could be even older this year. No male under 18 has made the US men's Olympic team since 2000. If Micheal Andrew doesn't make the team, or doesn't even make the trials finals, it's hardly an indictment of his training methodology. He's far below the prime performance age for this sport. Let's give it at least another 4 years before we try to draw any conclusions. People have been saying for three years that a plateau is immanent, yet he continues to progress at a rate puts him on the right trajectory to be a strong contender in multiple events in 2020.

Have you done any USRPT sets? I find them much more aerobically challenging (and I'm an aerobic beast!) than the "old school" aerobic sets that I used to do! I agree. anyone who thinks there's not a significant aerobic capacity building component to something like 30 x 50 or 20 x 75 on 20 seconds rest at 200 race pace hasn't likely tried either set once, much less done them several times a week for different strokes. Either of your predictions could prove to be true, however, it won't necessarily be due to the fact that he trains USRPT exclusively. I think this is ridiculous. He is already fast enough to make finals at olympic trials. His 100 *** time would have tied him for 4th at trials in 2012 and his 100 fly, 200 IM and 50 free times would also have placed him in the finals in 2012 in those events. I think he has almost no chance of qualifying for the Olympics this year but he already has a very good chance of making more than one final even if he doesn't get any faster this year. Exactly. How many 17 year old boys who train "old skool" are gonna make the finals at the upcoming trials? Few, if any. Why? Because it's damn hard to make the finals, especially in an era where guys can earn a decent living in swimming and extend their careers into their early 30's. The average age of the US Men's team at the 2012 Olympics was 25.8. It could be even older this year. No male under 18 has made the US men's Olympic team since 2000. If Micheal Andrew doesn't make the team, or doesn't even make the trials finals, it's hardly an indictment of his training methodology. He's far below the prime performance age for this sport. Let's give it at least another 4 years before we try to draw any conclusions. People have been saying for three years that a plateau is immanent, yet he continues to progress at a rate puts him on the right trajectory to be a strong contender in multiple events in 2020.