There's a swim meet coming up in one and a half month's time, and i am planning to take on the 200m freestyle.
Can anyone help me specific on what drills and sets should i be focusing on?
And by the way i am training with weights too, following this program by jason lezak
www.bodybuilding.com/.../jasonlezak1.htm
I am on the speed training phrase now though.
I am also doing the 3-3-3 drill swimspire recommended me and some finger drag catch up, but hope for some sets and other drills
I have no first hand tips for a distance event such as a 200, others more appropriate may chime in for that, but I do think any significant conditioning adaptation may be too late being a month away. With that said, look in to this for future 200's:
forums.usms.org/showthread.php
If you can make strength gains with dryland training, that can only help. Don't forget to taper some too. What can be accomplished is develop a strategy (check Ande's thread "Swimming Faster faster for the 200 pacing), work your streamline, block start. And a few tips would be to stretch your ankle's until the feet are floppy, and practice getting your arms streamlined locked behind head.
For drills, just have your stroke analyzed and from there you can figure out what drills can help, and it appears you are already on to that.
Good luck
I have no first hand tips for a distance event such as a 200, others more appropriate may chime in for that, but I do think any significant conditioning adaptation may be too late being a month away. With that said, look in to this for future 200's:
forums.usms.org/showthread.php
If you can make strength gains with dryland training, that can only help. Don't forget to taper some too. What can be accomplished is develop a strategy (check Ande's thread "Swimming Faster faster for the 200 pacing), work your streamline, block start. And a few tips would be to stretch your ankle's until the feet are floppy, and practice getting your arms streamlined locked behind head.
For drills, just have your stroke analyzed and from there you can figure out what drills can help, and it appears you are already on to that.
Good luck
