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It’s the best the country has done in a training, following Dr. Brent Rushall’s system. long time. The problem is this: Canada’s top swim- categories, and every issue we will do our The following year, Coach Smyth drew from that mers are much younger than the rest of the world, best to give info in each. The categories are experience to integrate race-pace sets within a and Canada is getting younger each year. more traditional training program... as follows: 20 | Training Load and Illness 08 | What You Need to Know Management in Swimmers About Ice Baths in Swimming by David Pyne MENTAL PREPAREDNESS by Jan Homolak The demands of balancing the training load and MP Cryotherapy is a five-dollar word for application risk of fatigue, injury and illness has long occupied of extreme cold in medical therapy. Although its the minds of swimming coaches and scientists. The use in sport is escalating, this form of therapy training of high-level swimmers—predominantly is old news. Even good old Hippocrates of Kos the pool training, but also the demands of dryland TC TECHNICAL was advocating this form of therapy back there and conditioning work—is one of several factors somewhere around 400 B.C.... that influence the risk of illness... 10 | Find Your Mantra 22 | Preseason Sets NUTRITION/RECOVERY N/R by Brad Jones by Michael J. Stott Modern pain science has taught us a lot about In the afterglow of the Olympics, college swimmers the importance of our thoughts and how they have traipsed back to campus, faced with the influence the feeling of pain or discomfort. The prospect of starting over or continuing a summer TR TRAINING new research can easily be applied to competitive of successful training. NCAA rules regulate the swimming and how swimmers cope with amount of preseason activity that supervised discomfort during practice and meets. athletes can perform... 11 | SPECIAL SETS: 2008 U.S. EV ENVIRONMENT 25 | How to Set Swimming OLYMPIC TRAINING CAMP Goals Like a B.A.D.A.S.S. by Michael J. Stott by Dave Crampton This workout is from an open practice on July 12, Most people involved in swimming have goals—ev- S/T STRATEGY/TACTICS 2008—about a month before the Olympic swim- eryone wants to win with a personal best time, but ming events began on Aug. 9—that Coach Bob not all do. 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Bick, USA Today Sports Images, Managing Editor of Swimming Technique Magazine Reuters, Getty Images 4 OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER 2016 Check it out now at swim.com/ios Swim with any Apple Watch Track workouts and effortlessly sync them to all platforms. Download the free Swim.com app [ Photo Courtesy: Singapore Swimming Federation ] TR USRPT FOR THE REST OF US by Bridger Bell n 2015, Coach Bill Smyth of Boston the sport, Coach Smyth points to the system’s rigidity and specificity, especially University gave his team a season of about rest intervals (18-23 seconds). Coach Smyth notes that race-pace training “textbook” USRPT training, following has been around for decades, stressing that the Australian distance swimmers led in I modeling its success from at least the 1980s (an observation also noted and argued Dr. Brent Rushall’s system. The following by Dave Kelsheimer and Rebecca Wilson in Swimming World Magazine’s June year, Coach Smyth drew from that 1995 issue).