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'm brand new to it and on week 4 I believe. Maybe 5, I'll have to check my flog. I do this once per week, aiming to complete 20 x 100 before 3 failures. So far so good till today, but I had circumstances which led to my failures today.
Once a week is about all I can do with USRPT so far, although as the OW season comes closer I'm going to add another day of it. So far I like it. I've seen improvement (1 sec is still improvement!) which I like. My other days are spent doing sets for distance tolerance and pace training for my scheduled marathons this summer. We'll see how it goes!
Big thanks to Glenn for his help offline.
Mike: I am very interested in your approach to USRPT with open water. I posted recently on two different threads here on the Forum. I'm working a combination of USRPT and CSS training for open water distance of 1.5K, 5K, 10K, and marathon. I have a 26.4K race coming this August.
With your 20 x 100 set, what is the RACE pace you are trying to hold...and what is the race distance for that pace?
Hope you don't mind the dialogue...I've talked with Glenn a few times about this stuff, too. He's great!
I'm brand new to it and on week 4 I believe. Maybe 5, I'll have to check my flog. I do this once per week, aiming to complete 20 x 100 before 3 failures. So far so good till today, but I had circumstances which led to my failures today.
Once a week is about all I can do with USRPT so far, although as the OW season comes closer I'm going to add another day of it. So far I like it. I've seen improvement (1 sec is still improvement!) which I like. My other days are spent doing sets for distance tolerance and pace training for my scheduled marathons this summer. We'll see how it goes!
Big thanks to Glenn for his help offline.
Mike: I am very interested in your approach to USRPT with open water. I posted recently on two different threads here on the Forum. I'm working a combination of USRPT and CSS training for open water distance of 1.5K, 5K, 10K, and marathon. I have a 26.4K race coming this August.
With your 20 x 100 set, what is the RACE pace you are trying to hold...and what is the race distance for that pace?
Hope you don't mind the dialogue...I've talked with Glenn a few times about this stuff, too. He's great!
