So I recently went to my first meet a week ago and another one this weekend (yay!). A swam a couple of different events and learned a lot of stuff from the experience. Both weekends I raced the 100 back, and I'm using the term race loosely here. I just cannot seem to crank up the speed on this stroke. I went 1:48.9 the first weekend and 1:49 this weekend. My 100 ***, easily my worst stroke, was 1:52. This doesn't really make sense to me as I've always considered my backstroke to be a lot better than my breaststroke. Ultimately my question boils down to how do you race backstroke? I'm clearly doing it wrong and it's starting to frustrate me.
Any tips would be greatly appreciated!
What you do in practice, you will do in a meet. If you have technical flaws in practice, they will be exacerbated when you try to "go fast" in a meet.
That is why so many on these forums espouse fast sets during practice. As has been previously suggested, get some video of your swim, and you will get better responses.
What you do in practice, you will do in a meet. If you have technical flaws in practice, they will be exacerbated when you try to "go fast" in a meet.
That is why so many on these forums espouse fast sets during practice. As has been previously suggested, get some video of your swim, and you will get better responses.
