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!!!!!
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.
You are RIGHT on with what you have said here! Excellent!
There are only three aspects of swimming that are important, the first and most important is technique, the second in importance is the mental aspect of our sport, i.e., the self talk part and the race strategy part etc. The least important is conditioning...but that is the one most swimmers and coaches put emphasis on. That is not to say that conditioning is not important, of course it is, but the first two are more important (yes, I know this goes against what most coaches preach).
The only way to make your target time in USRPT is to concentrate on technique especially when the set begins to get very hard and you feel you cannot make another repeat. I have several strategies I use when I get to that part of the set. One thing I do is go into fourth stroke breathing on the second length of the 50, that usually will get me a few more repeats at my target time.
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.
You are RIGHT on with what you have said here! Excellent!
There are only three aspects of swimming that are important, the first and most important is technique, the second in importance is the mental aspect of our sport, i.e., the self talk part and the race strategy part etc. The least important is conditioning...but that is the one most swimmers and coaches put emphasis on. That is not to say that conditioning is not important, of course it is, but the first two are more important (yes, I know this goes against what most coaches preach).
The only way to make your target time in USRPT is to concentrate on technique especially when the set begins to get very hard and you feel you cannot make another repeat. I have several strategies I use when I get to that part of the set. One thing I do is go into fourth stroke breathing on the second length of the 50, that usually will get me a few more repeats at my target time.
