Any discussion about adding a new category to your online workouts? Great article in the March-April 2019 Swimmer edition about the success of USPRT. As the writer Jim Thornton wrote: "Perhaps it's time to look into yet another protocol. Masters-USPRT." Perhaps it's time to add it to your online workout section!!!!!
Gonna be honest here, I think saying "the least important is conditioning" with respect to someone that wants to be a marathon swimmer is way off base.
My saying that conditioning is least important may sound like I am saying that conditioning is not important. That is not what I am saying. I am just ranking the three important parts of swimming...kind of like saying $1,000,000 is what I would like to have and $999,999 is the next best amount to have and $999,998 is the least best amount to have.
Being efficient (i.e., good technique) in the water particularly when swimming long distance is even more critical because poor technique over a long distance adds up to a poorer outcome. Compare a swimmer competing in the 1650 doing efficient turns i.e., straight into the wall and straight out again, with someone who essentially goes down one side of the lane and comes back on the other side of the lane, almost circle swimming. That swimmer will swim more than 1650 yards and have a poorer outcome than the swimmer doing turns correctly/efficiently.
Gonna be honest here, I think saying "the least important is conditioning" with respect to someone that wants to be a marathon swimmer is way off base.
My saying that conditioning is least important may sound like I am saying that conditioning is not important. That is not what I am saying. I am just ranking the three important parts of swimming...kind of like saying $1,000,000 is what I would like to have and $999,999 is the next best amount to have and $999,998 is the least best amount to have.
Being efficient (i.e., good technique) in the water particularly when swimming long distance is even more critical because poor technique over a long distance adds up to a poorer outcome. Compare a swimmer competing in the 1650 doing efficient turns i.e., straight into the wall and straight out again, with someone who essentially goes down one side of the lane and comes back on the other side of the lane, almost circle swimming. That swimmer will swim more than 1650 yards and have a poorer outcome than the swimmer doing turns correctly/efficiently.
