USPRT Workouts?

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. Thanks! I did respond on the other thread but I've been so pleased to be able to do an efficient workout, often 've put on more muscle and am able to get away with nutritional indiscretion WAY more than when I would do steady state cardio like run/bike or other things over the years. Anyway, I am a fan. Next will be adding a tempo trainer and getting someone to look at my stroke/technique (which is circa 1997).

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. Thanks! I did respond on the other thread but I've been so pleased to be able to do an efficient workout, often 've put on more muscle and am able to get away with nutritional indiscretion WAY more than when I would do steady state cardio like run/bike or other things over the years. Anyway, I am a fan. Next will be adding a tempo trainer and getting someone to look at my stroke/technique (which is circa 1997).