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 usually take 10 minutes or more to rest between sets. I think one should be totally gassed at the end of a set to the point that there is no way you could do another repeat. Ten minutes rest (or more), allows me to do the same in the next set.
In terms of the number of races you are training for, I would not do what you do, but that is me. Obviously you have weighed the pros and cons of swimming five races a day and that works for you. What works for you is what you should do.
Ok, that's good to know. I will see how a ten-minute break works for me.
At a local meet, I would do the same thing (race a full slate), even if no high points or Ironman award existed. For that matter, at the last meet I competed at, it was a two-day meet with no awards at all. I also knew there was no way I could win my age group for the first leg of the Georgia Masters Grand Prix Series. I still signed up for a full slate of events plus relays, because I love to race! I would rather race than watch. :bliss:
I usually take 10 minutes or more to rest between sets. I think one should be totally gassed at the end of a set to the point that there is no way you could do another repeat. Ten minutes rest (or more), allows me to do the same in the next set.
In terms of the number of races you are training for, I would not do what you do, but that is me. Obviously you have weighed the pros and cons of swimming five races a day and that works for you. What works for you is what you should do.
Ok, that's good to know. I will see how a ten-minute break works for me.
At a local meet, I would do the same thing (race a full slate), even if no high points or Ironman award existed. For that matter, at the last meet I competed at, it was a two-day meet with no awards at all. I also knew there was no way I could win my age group for the first leg of the Georgia Masters Grand Prix Series. I still signed up for a full slate of events plus relays, because I love to race! I would rather race than watch. :bliss:
