How much do you believe you can improve?

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Karl_S — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 11:07:12 GMT

Well, I took 2% off my 50 bk in the year following my original post. How did other people do?

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__steve__ — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 01:16:10 GMT

The difference between 2nd and 10th is less than the 1.83 second difference 1st and 2nd

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Swimosaur — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 09:12:42 GMT

To Whom It May Concern, You wish you were this good! This is what the new FINA all-time Top Ten list is going to look like: 50 M. FLY 34.53 DIANN UUSTAL USA 2013 36.36 CHRISTEL SCHULZ GER 2005 36.66 JUDY WILSON FRA 2010 36.71 MICHIE DOI JPN 2009 36.79 YOSHIKO OSAKI JPN 2003 37.10 BRIGITTE MERTEN GER 2011 37.31 LYNETTE STEVENSON AUS 2011 37.58 KIRA MAKAROVA RUS 2012 38.06 JOY WARD USA 2007 38.09 HISAKO SATO JPN 2000 Jeepers! She's got nearly 2 seconds on #2. In a 50! That's what you call total dominance! Anything is possible!:banana: :banana::banana:

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Elaine Krugman — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 03:12:15 GMT

WooooHOOOOO Diann! :applaud: An e-mail to Diann will follow this post!

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Swimosaur — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 02:45:12 GMT

I used to believe something like this: -- Speed loss due to normal aging and/or injury is inevitable. Then I saw this: W 65-69 LCM 50 Butterfly Diann B Uustal 2013-06-05 (20130605panjunL) 67 GAJA 50 Fly H4 / L4 34.56 <<<<<<<

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Swimosaur — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 11:06:19 GMT

I want to know more about how to do it. If she could bottle it & sell it, she'd make a fortune. Ask the hirsute Wookiee. They practice at the same time, in the same pool. Maybe there's something in the water ....

RE: How much do you believe you can improve?

Karl_S — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 07:10:22 GMT

Now I believe anything is possible! Yea, I've seen some similar accomplishments. I want to know more about how to do it.

RE: How much do you believe you can improve?

Karl_S — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 07:09:04 GMT

It's interesting that, so far, the most probable responses are: 0, 1, 5, 10 & 15. I wonder if that's just because these are "round" numbers so-to-speak. Clearly though, it's a broad multi-modal distribution. I wonder what basis folks have for believing that they could improve 10% or more. Are they new to swimming? Recovering from an injury or illness? Really lackadaisical about their current training? About to hit a growth spurt? I spent about 2.5 years knocking my 100 back time down by 1.5s. 10% is totally excellent.

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Former Member — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 13:43:24 GMT

Now I believe anything is possible! Good, because it is. I dropped about 10 seconds in my 50 free from a 34 to a 25 in 2 and a half years, no kidding. Started swimming as a 15 year old, and just tapered for summer league as a 17 year old. Also went from 37 in 50 *** to 29 in 50 ***.

RE: How much do you believe you can improve?

Former Member — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 13:41:10 GMT

I just posted about this!! Now, bear in mind, I am in high school and was a very new swimmer when I started at 15 years of age, but I have definitely done the 20%!!!! Not sure where my thread went but go see it, lol.

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funkyfish — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 10:25:14 GMT

I chose the 8%, because I want to take 2 seconds off my 50m free. I've got some things working against me (work, pool too hot, gimpy shoulder, various stars out of alignment, etc...), but I also have a bit of denial in me that keeps me thinking that "yeah, maybe this year I can do it." :banana:

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Former Member — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 09:23:14 GMT

Did you know there is actually a "Chewbacca bat"? Check this out: www.cnn.com/.../index.html Neat! But I prefer the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus: zapatopi.net/.../

RE: How much do you believe you can improve?

Former Member — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 09:21:36 GMT

All Judd has to do is shave down once a year for his big meet. He trains with a fullbody drag suit. He will instantly be faster. Laugh it up, fuzzball. :bolt:

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jpetyk — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 12:15:07 GMT

If I was independently wealthy, I believe I could probably improve about 5%. I was always just "pretty good," never "really good" or "elite." That being said, if I quit sleeping in, and had some real coaching, I think I could probably improve about 1 second off of my 100 free. At least I like to think I could.

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Former Member — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 06:57:55 GMT

I used to believe something like this: All Judd has to do is shave down once a year for his big meet. He trains with a fullbody drag suit. He will instantly be faster.

RE: How much do you believe you can improve?

Karl_S — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 06:02:25 GMT

Look who's talkin'! :bolt: Did you know there is actually a "Chewbacca bat"? Check this out: www.cnn.com/.../index.html

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Elaine Krugman — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 04:50:48 GMT

All Judd has to do is shave down once a year for his big meet. He trains with a fullbody drag suit. He will instantly be faster. Look who's talkin'! :bolt:

RE: How much do you believe you can improve?

Swimosaur — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 02:07:50 GMT

I used to believe something like this: Speed loss due to normal aging and/or injury is inevitable. Then I saw this: W 65-69 LCM 50 Butterfly Diann B Uustal 2013-06-05 (20130605panjunL) 67 GAJA 50 Fly H4 / L4 34.56 <<<<<<<

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__steve__ — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 01:34:14 GMT

My speed falls at the rate my tech suit ages

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Patrick W. Brundage — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 01:20:14 GMT

I'm still hoping for about 2% by Santa Clara in my best events (400 IM, 500 free), but I'm willing for FINIS to do a long term, longitudinal study of the impact of their training tools and suits on my performance over the next ~40 years by providing all the stuff you listed above to see if I could take the 2% to 5% or 10% and to see how long I could sustain it.