USPRT Workouts?

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!!!!!
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  • Sorry if this is the case then I give up. 6 months of squad training combined with a few private lessons, and also a video analysis session only helped me to swim longer without exhausting myself, but I CANNOT BREAK THE 30 MINUTES BARRIER FOR 1500 M. And my coach is trying, imo, to brute-force my sustainable speed because the difference of my all out 100 m time (1:36) and my CSS pace (around 1:58 - 2:00 / 100 m) is too large. Then give up! Every single post you've made on this forum is you over-analyzing everything. As far as I can tell, you did not even start with the basics, just jumped to more advanced concepts and got frustrated because you haven't become "elite." And *then* you went for "few private lessons." You do not appear to want to bother with the process of actually learning to swim correctly, and you cannot swim fast without swimming correctly, no matter what philosophy of swim training you choose to use. Swimming is not running. Humans did not evolve to swim the four competitive swimming strokes like we did to move efficiently on land. The movements do not come naturally for the large, large, large majority. It's like... trying to teach yourself piano for 3 months and being frustrated because you can't play Sonata Pathetique. My n=1: I took swimming lessons all the way back from parent/kid lessons at like age 2. I failed whatever level backstroke was taught 3 times. I started competitive swimming at age 9 (remember, that's *7 years* after I started swim lessons!) and was *slow*. I didn't get halfway decent until I was a senior in high school (that's age 18 - *16 years* after I started swim lessons!). And that's learning as a kid with a malleable nervous system. It isn't easy. It isn't fast. There aren't any shortcuts. You're teaching you body and brain to move in ways they aren't familiar with. But by all means, if your options are either somehow make swimming come naturally, or give up, then give up.
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  • Sorry if this is the case then I give up. 6 months of squad training combined with a few private lessons, and also a video analysis session only helped me to swim longer without exhausting myself, but I CANNOT BREAK THE 30 MINUTES BARRIER FOR 1500 M. And my coach is trying, imo, to brute-force my sustainable speed because the difference of my all out 100 m time (1:36) and my CSS pace (around 1:58 - 2:00 / 100 m) is too large. Then give up! Every single post you've made on this forum is you over-analyzing everything. As far as I can tell, you did not even start with the basics, just jumped to more advanced concepts and got frustrated because you haven't become "elite." And *then* you went for "few private lessons." You do not appear to want to bother with the process of actually learning to swim correctly, and you cannot swim fast without swimming correctly, no matter what philosophy of swim training you choose to use. Swimming is not running. Humans did not evolve to swim the four competitive swimming strokes like we did to move efficiently on land. The movements do not come naturally for the large, large, large majority. It's like... trying to teach yourself piano for 3 months and being frustrated because you can't play Sonata Pathetique. My n=1: I took swimming lessons all the way back from parent/kid lessons at like age 2. I failed whatever level backstroke was taught 3 times. I started competitive swimming at age 9 (remember, that's *7 years* after I started swim lessons!) and was *slow*. I didn't get halfway decent until I was a senior in high school (that's age 18 - *16 years* after I started swim lessons!). And that's learning as a kid with a malleable nervous system. It isn't easy. It isn't fast. There aren't any shortcuts. You're teaching you body and brain to move in ways they aren't familiar with. But by all means, if your options are either somehow make swimming come naturally, or give up, then give up.
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