Hey guys, do you have any strategy to swimming the 50 free?
1) Do you just go as hard as you can and hope you can stay strong till the end?
And
2) Same thing with breathing (if you can't last a lap without breathing) so do you pace your breathing or do you try to last as long as you can and then breath till the end?
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1) Do you just go as hard as you can and hope you can stay strong till the end?
2) Same thing with breathing (if you can't last a lap without breathing) so do you pace your breathing or do you try to last as long as you can and then breath till the end?
1) No. Start out almost as fast as possible and finish as fast as possible.
2) If you need to breath during a 50 you need a breathing strategy and to be efficient at taking a breath while sprinting. The only time you want to be dying for a breath is right at the finish, so take your breathes earlier than you absolutely have to. Oxygen takes time to get from your lungs to your muscles which would indicate that you should breath earlier in the race and there is no point to breath right before the finish.
1) Do you just go as hard as you can and hope you can stay strong till the end?
2) Same thing with breathing (if you can't last a lap without breathing) so do you pace your breathing or do you try to last as long as you can and then breath till the end?
1) No. Start out almost as fast as possible and finish as fast as possible.
2) If you need to breath during a 50 you need a breathing strategy and to be efficient at taking a breath while sprinting. The only time you want to be dying for a breath is right at the finish, so take your breathes earlier than you absolutely have to. Oxygen takes time to get from your lungs to your muscles which would indicate that you should breath earlier in the race and there is no point to breath right before the finish.
