You’ll actually be questioning what these letters stand for, as I did once I first got here throughout this new coaching idea. USRPT is the acronym for “Extremely Brief Race Tempo Coaching”.
You might be in all probability nonetheless turning up your nostril, as a result of this has not made you any much less sceptical about this new idea I’m about to current.
However let’s start by looking again into the previous…. USRPT was first talked about over half a century in the past in Australia. That was again within the Nineteen Sixties and Professor Brent Rushall, who was younger again then, started experimenting with what was then a revolutionary methodology on quite a lot of athletes. The revolutionary factor about Rushall’s strategy was to base coaching round swimming approach and efficiency high quality. Dr Rushall’s concepts reached so far as the USA, so he moved to the States and that’s the place this fascinating idea actually took off.
USRPT is, at the beginning, a system specializing in approach, which pulls on a particular coaching methodology to essentially concentrate on studying the approach used for racing. The second precedence is to make trainers good lecturers, in order that they can assist swimmers change their racing approach. Thirdly, taking into account that psychology determines outcomes, this coaching system tends to stress this facet.
Right here is an instance of coaching that highlights the facets which have simply been described, primarily specializing in streamlining, head place and lowering vertical movement whereas swimming:
– Warmup: 400 free swimming
– Work-out targeted on lowering resistance to water: 12 x 50 m freestyle or backstroke at 60” for 200m tempo. Every ‘odd’ rep within the set is swum as normal. Change the place of your head and shoulders for each ‘even’ rep, elevating your hips and legs. Rely the variety of swim strokes for every even rep. If the variety of arm strokes is lower than for the odd reps, then you might be heading in the right direction.
– 5 minutes sluggish legs
– Utilizing your new swimming place: 16 x 25 m freestyle or backstroke at 60” for 100m tempo. Be sure that your head and shoulders are of their new place.
– 5 minutes swimming something however your normal swim stroke
– Utilizing your new swimming place: 12 x 50 m freestyle or backstroke at 60” for 200m tempo. Be sure that your head and shoulders are of their new place.
– 10 minutes swimming any stroke
The primary a part of this text just isn’t supposed to disclose some absolute reality, simply to arouse your curiosity and encourage you to search out out extra, as a result of each coaching methodology has its professionals and cons and it’s as much as all good coaches and swimmers to determine which is the very best strategy for them.
Within the second half we are going to take a look at the extra performance-related aspect of the USPRT methodology. Be sure to don’t miss it and carry on following us!
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