I'm swimmer in high school (junior) and I would like to get your thoughts. I have been swimming since my freshman year and I now swim a :57.45 in the 100 free and a 26.21 in the 50. I kind of slacked my freshman and sophomore years but now I actually care. I'm going to be swimming hard in the offseason and I now am working out and I was wondering how fast I could be by swim season next year? I would LOVE to be on our top 400 free relay which has a time of 3:23. Do you think that it is possible for me to get my time in my 100 down to a :51/:50 by next year? I'll have about 9 - 10 months. Any thoughts?
I think a realistic answer is…who knows? There's so many variables that it's pretty hard to predict anything. If you're serious about your swimming then I'm sure you will improve, but it'll be hard to say how much. I was in a similar boat, it wasn't until I was a senior that I started making great strides. I was able to drop 10 seconds on a 100yd fly from the start of the season to our state championships. Some of the improvement came from conditioning, some from technique improvement, and some from growing over a year and gaining overall body strength.
In a nutshell, I'd say dropping 6-7 seconds is a possible, but lofty goal, and you'll want to keep that goal in front of you. Good luck!
:banana:
I think a realistic answer is…who knows? There's so many variables that it's pretty hard to predict anything. If you're serious about your swimming then I'm sure you will improve, but it'll be hard to say how much. I was in a similar boat, it wasn't until I was a senior that I started making great strides. I was able to drop 10 seconds on a 100yd fly from the start of the season to our state championships. Some of the improvement came from conditioning, some from technique improvement, and some from growing over a year and gaining overall body strength.
In a nutshell, I'd say dropping 6-7 seconds is a possible, but lofty goal, and you'll want to keep that goal in front of you. Good luck!
:banana:
