View Usa Swimming Motivational Times Explained Images. Usa swimming publishes motivational times by event and by age group to encourage swimmers to step their swimming up to the next level. The time standards can be found at the link below and are available in long course, short course meters, and short course yards.
Motivational time standards are most often tied to the olympic cycle and are updated every four years.
But there are other, less obvious things that are highly motivating. Meet organizers sometimes use them to set meet qualifying times to control the size of meets. Usa swimming posts time standards for races measured in short course yards or long course meters. Each age group has b standards, bb standards.
