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!!!!!
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Trust me, I know what USRPT is. It is not going to get a total beginner ready to swim an open water 5k.
I am totally ready for the 5 km distance, totally ready for open water and totally ready for the temperature - I have done a 3.7 km race last year before at the same place, and I swim about 3 km with the OW group in my city every week, and swim about 12 - 15 km total a week - the ONLY problem I have is my speed so I now refrain from adding mileage further but do USRPTs instead.
I think USRPT works on me because it forces me to use the best technique I have got in order to make the target time at race pace (the idea of specificity), which no other kind of training provides these stimulants.
Trust me, I know what USRPT is. It is not going to get a total beginner ready to swim an open water 5k.
I am totally ready for the 5 km distance, totally ready for open water and totally ready for the temperature - I have done a 3.7 km race last year before at the same place, and I swim about 3 km with the OW group in my city every week, and swim about 12 - 15 km total a week - the ONLY problem I have is my speed so I now refrain from adding mileage further but do USRPTs instead.
I think USRPT works on me because it forces me to use the best technique I have got in order to make the target time at race pace (the idea of specificity), which no other kind of training provides these stimulants.
