How do I get faster?

hey Ghoul, You're 18 & want a faster 500 free & 200 IM. current times: 5:44 & 2:23 you asked for help with distance and IM sets First a few questions Swim Training: How many times a week do you train? How far per practice? What sort of sets? With a team or without? With a coach or without? What are your practice times for: free 25, 50, 75, 100, 150, 200, 250, 300, 400, 500, 600, 800 & 1000. Kick: flutter with a board and without, plus SDK for 15, 25, 50, 75, 100, 150 & 200 what pace could you hold if you did 10 x 100 fr on 1:10, 1:15, 1:20, 1:30, 1:40, 2:00, 2:30 & 3:00? What were your race splits? (when you went 5:44 & 2:23?) How often do you lift and do dry lands? What's your height and weight? What kind of suit did you wear in your races? How good do you want to be? Times? Dates? Splits? How bad do you want to be good? I'm confident you can swim ghoulishly faster and make your friends green with envy. my initial suggestions are: Read, study and apply ideas from swim faster faster? Follow a few Blogs: Of Swimming Bondage Chris Stevenson Ande's Swimming Blog Consider the advice I offered in: Last 150 of my 500 falls off Hang in the USMS forums Lanes: The Middle Distance Lane The IM Lane The Breastroke Lane As far as training goes Train 5, 6, or 7x per week, bump up your training: increase the times per week, intensity per practice, yards per practice, and swim faster times in practice Mix up your sets Have Free days, D days, Sprint Days, Race days & IM days Do aerobic, sprint, lactate, race, and recovery sets Swim fast for time in each practice & actually RACE a fast 500 fr & 200 IM once a week. On IM DAYS, work on your weakest stroke, mine's breastroke, what's yours? My other weakness is middle distance free and my challenge has been correct splitting. Train to be very fit and finish fierce. You can swim faster faster How good do you want to be? How bad do you want to be good? What have you done about it? What are you going to do about it? We live in a cause and effect world, if you want the effects, focus on the cause. Ande

hey Ghoul, You're 18 & want a faster 500 free & 200 IM. current times: 5:44 & 2:23 you asked for help with distance and IM sets First a few questions Swim Training: How many times a week do you train? How far per practice? What sort of sets? With a team or without? With a coach or without? What are your practice times for: free 25, 50, 75, 100, 150, 200, 250, 300, 400, 500, 600, 800 & 1000. Kick: flutter with a board and without, plus SDK for 15, 25, 50, 75, 100, 150 & 200 what pace could you hold if you did 10 x 100 fr on 1:10, 1:15, 1:20, 1:30, 1:40, 2:00, 2:30 & 3:00? What were your race splits? (when you went 5:44 & 2:23?) How often do you lift and do dry lands? What's your height and weight? What kind of suit did you wear in your races? How good do you want to be? Times? Dates? Splits? How bad do you want to be good? I'm confident you can swim ghoulishly faster and make your friends green with envy. my initial suggestions are: Read, study and apply ideas from swim faster faster? Follow a few Blogs: Of Swimming Bondage Chris Stevenson Ande's Swimming Blog Consider the advice I offered in: Last 150 of my 500 falls off Hang in the USMS forums Lanes: The Middle Distance Lane The IM Lane The Breastroke Lane As far as training goes Train 5, 6, or 7x per week, bump up your training: increase the times per week, intensity per practice, yards per practice, and swim faster times in practice Mix up your sets Have Free days, D days, Sprint Days, Race days & IM days Do aerobic, sprint, lactate, race, and recovery sets Swim fast for time in each practice & actually RACE a fast 500 fr & 200 IM once a week. On IM DAYS, work on your weakest stroke, mine's breastroke, what's yours? My other weakness is middle distance free and my challenge has been correct splitting. Train to be very fit and finish fierce. You can swim faster faster How good do you want to be? How bad do you want to be good? What have you done about it? What are you going to do about it? We live in a cause and effect world, if you want the effects, focus on the cause. Ande