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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My concern for miklcct is you are doing too much volume without proper technique. This is a big risk for injury. For your age and fitness it is clear your technique needs a lot of improvement. As others have said you can't just throw volume at swimming to get better like you can with running and biking. There is ~800x more drag in water than air so reducing drag is more important than pretty much anything else. Swimming is also not intuitive for almost everyone.
If you have limited access to coaching buy a camera you can put underwater and film yourself. You can post here, the swimming subreddit, or find one of many online coaches you can pay to work on your technique. You need to focus almost 100% on improving your stroke. Another thing you can do is watch videos online. Olympic races are usually good as they have underwater views. You can slow down playback speed in settings. "Mr. Smooth" is also a good visualization for technique: www.swimsmooth.com/.../mr-smooth-free-app
My concern for miklcct is you are doing too much volume without proper technique. This is a big risk for injury. For your age and fitness it is clear your technique needs a lot of improvement. As others have said you can't just throw volume at swimming to get better like you can with running and biking. There is ~800x more drag in water than air so reducing drag is more important than pretty much anything else. Swimming is also not intuitive for almost everyone.
If you have limited access to coaching buy a camera you can put underwater and film yourself. You can post here, the swimming subreddit, or find one of many online coaches you can pay to work on your technique. You need to focus almost 100% on improving your stroke. Another thing you can do is watch videos online. Olympic races are usually good as they have underwater views. You can slow down playback speed in settings. "Mr. Smooth" is also a good visualization for technique: www.swimsmooth.com/.../mr-smooth-free-app