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'd say it also depends on your capacity. is your 57 at 90% then you could drop another 6 seconds or so.
when you say slacker, do you mean missing practices, just swimming through them and spending as much time talking to everyone as swimming hard, you don't push yourself through the tough sets.
I'm 37 and from 35-36 I managed to dropped ~3s in 6 months as a masters swimmer. ~57.2 to 54.5 but my best time as a teen was 52.2 so I don't have much left to give when it comes to sprints.
but my 200 time is now down around 1:56, my teen best of 1:51.xx is not out of question. I swim smarter now than then and have a Masters goal to get under 1:52 again.
what your diet, sleep and add something new to your training like running, rowing or biking and I think you can make improvements
I'd say it also depends on your capacity. is your 57 at 90% then you could drop another 6 seconds or so.
when you say slacker, do you mean missing practices, just swimming through them and spending as much time talking to everyone as swimming hard, you don't push yourself through the tough sets.
I'm 37 and from 35-36 I managed to dropped ~3s in 6 months as a masters swimmer. ~57.2 to 54.5 but my best time as a teen was 52.2 so I don't have much left to give when it comes to sprints.
but my 200 time is now down around 1:56, my teen best of 1:51.xx is not out of question. I swim smarter now than then and have a Masters goal to get under 1:52 again.
what your diet, sleep and add something new to your training like running, rowing or biking and I think you can make improvements
