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!!!!!
It can be used as a pretty descent predictor of events longer than 400M.
Ha, that explains why I don't know much about it - I haven't trained for an event longer than 400 since my junior year of high school :P
I mean, I don't know what "CSS" is, but if I'm doing the dimensional analysis right, 14k over 6 hours is like 2:30/100, which seems doable... if so, I commend you on adjusting your goals to more realistic things.
Actually I don't know what is realistic and what is not, because everyone comes from different background - I grown up doing competitive programming am very different from those grown up doing competitive swimming!
How would you use USRPT to train for the 100 or 200 im? I have no experience using USRPT but I would guess that you work on one stroke at a time. I was thinking that one day to do a set of 25s fly and then a set of 25s back. Then on another day to do a set of 25s *** and then a set of 25s free.
How would you use USRPT to train for the 100 or 200 im? I have no experience using USRPT but I would guess that you work on one stroke at a time. I was thinking that one day to do a set of 25s fly and then a set of 25s back. Then on another day to do a set of 25s *** and then a set of 25s free.
That is the general recommendation. Since repetition is a big part of USRPT it seems to be better to not change strokes mid-set. If you do more than one set per workout, you can do different strokes each set I believe.
That is the general recommendation. Since repetition is a big part of USRPT it seems to be better to not change strokes mid-set. If you do more than one set per workout, you can do different strokes each set I believe.
I guess you are supposed to work on cross-over turns separately then?
How would you use USRPT to train for the 100 or 200 im? I have no experience using USRPT but I would guess that you work on one stroke at a time. I was thinking that one day to do a set of 25s fly and then a set of 25s back. Then on another day to do a set of 25s *** and then a set of 25s free.
I guess you are supposed to work on cross-over turns separately then?
Since you're training for both the 100 IM and 200 IM, I see no problem in doing some repeat mixed stroke 50s (e.g., fly-back, back-***, ***-free) so you can also work on turns at speed. Remember, USRPT is a training concept, not dogma ... do what makes sense.
