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!!!!!
This has taken some interesting turns! For me- former college swimmer and super out of shape with thoracic outlet issues, USRPT 2-3x week has been a nice way to get in a little bit of shape. I'll see how mesa goes. I'm really only able to do 1-2 of the sets each workout, no way could i do 3. My guess is that I'll be able to complete my chosen events at the pace I've trained for but there will be no "surprise drop" like in big meets of my younger years :) I'm not sure, but I think I'll stick with usrpt after mesa but add in a traditional workout a few times a month to mix it up.
Good for you!
First, when I started USRPT full time 5 years ago, no way could I do more than one USRPT set a day. Now I can do three sets, but not everyday.
In terms of a drop in time, you can expect a small drop at a meet like Mesa because it is a focus meet and you are shaved and focused. But the thing about USRPT, if done correctly (and not everyone does it correctly), is that because you are doing race pace swimming everyday (hopefully) that you are always ready to race.
The story I like to tell about this is that when I started training with USRPT in September of 2014 I did not know how it would work out. At a meet in my home pool that February, which I had swum in for several years, I would usually swim the 200 free and go about 2:09. By Nationals in April or May I would go 2:05 or so (in 2013 as a 63 year old I went 2:05.97). But in 2014, as a 64 year old at the February meet I went 2:03.35...at that point I knew that USRPT was working for me. At Nationals that year, also at 64, I went 2:02.26.
Again, I was training exclusively USRPT and doing it 5 times a week.
This has taken some interesting turns! For me- former college swimmer and super out of shape with thoracic outlet issues, USRPT 2-3x week has been a nice way to get in a little bit of shape. I'll see how mesa goes. I'm really only able to do 1-2 of the sets each workout, no way could i do 3. My guess is that I'll be able to complete my chosen events at the pace I've trained for but there will be no "surprise drop" like in big meets of my younger years :) I'm not sure, but I think I'll stick with usrpt after mesa but add in a traditional workout a few times a month to mix it up.
Good for you!
First, when I started USRPT full time 5 years ago, no way could I do more than one USRPT set a day. Now I can do three sets, but not everyday.
In terms of a drop in time, you can expect a small drop at a meet like Mesa because it is a focus meet and you are shaved and focused. But the thing about USRPT, if done correctly (and not everyone does it correctly), is that because you are doing race pace swimming everyday (hopefully) that you are always ready to race.
The story I like to tell about this is that when I started training with USRPT in September of 2014 I did not know how it would work out. At a meet in my home pool that February, which I had swum in for several years, I would usually swim the 200 free and go about 2:09. By Nationals in April or May I would go 2:05 or so (in 2013 as a 63 year old I went 2:05.97). But in 2014, as a 64 year old at the February meet I went 2:03.35...at that point I knew that USRPT was working for me. At Nationals that year, also at 64, I went 2:02.26.
Again, I was training exclusively USRPT and doing it 5 times a week.
