How do I get faster?

Hey Ghuol, The same answer that is often given on this question...join a team, get a coach. Not to trivialize that statement, I don't know how much you swam and were coached before high school. An active inter-mural athletic swim group with some coaching or keep swimming with the UMich alumni. Train/exercise 5 or 6 days per week. Check out some of the workouts that are posted in that section. Read Ande's Swimming Tips (not in one sitting!) I like training sets of broken events, for hard sets. I think these are great. For example, my broken 100 is 25 rest 5sec 75 50 rest 5 50 25 rest 5 50 rest 5 25 I usualy do 3 sets on the 2 minutes. This is a high effort set and times, after subtracting the inner rest should be approaching meet times. The 200 version of this is 50, r10, 150; 100, r10, 100; 50, r10, 100, r10, 50. I'm sure you can come up with a 500 equivalent, but maybe it is broken down 5 ways instead of 3 ways. Not only do I like over all times close to meet times, but the other major focus of this set is even splits. Get the coaching - I am going to guess from your high school times that there is plenty to be found in technique. That is why a coach and team or group are so important. Good luck, I'm still looking for another 1.5 seconds on my 100 free SCY, it's a never ending story! Cheers, PT

Hey Ghuol, The same answer that is often given on this question...join a team, get a coach. Not to trivialize that statement, I don't know how much you swam and were coached before high school. An active inter-mural athletic swim group with some coaching or keep swimming with the UMich alumni. Train/exercise 5 or 6 days per week. Check out some of the workouts that are posted in that section. Read Ande's Swimming Tips (not in one sitting!) I like training sets of broken events, for hard sets. I think these are great. For example, my broken 100 is 25 rest 5sec 75 50 rest 5 50 25 rest 5 50 rest 5 25 I usualy do 3 sets on the 2 minutes. This is a high effort set and times, after subtracting the inner rest should be approaching meet times. The 200 version of this is 50, r10, 150; 100, r10, 100; 50, r10, 100, r10, 50. I'm sure you can come up with a 500 equivalent, but maybe it is broken down 5 ways instead of 3 ways. Not only do I like over all times close to meet times, but the other major focus of this set is even splits. Get the coaching - I am going to guess from your high school times that there is plenty to be found in technique. That is why a coach and team or group are so important. Good luck, I'm still looking for another 1.5 seconds on my 100 free SCY, it's a never ending story! Cheers, PT