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 was going to stay out of this but I can't resist. As much as I detest swimming and training for the 200 due to the pain you go through its an awesome event when swum right. I find it to be the easiest race to screw up, either going out too hard or not hard enough and either way you end up hurting like no other event. It's just far enough it's impossible to sprint and just short enough you can't get into a rhythm.
That all said its one of my favorite events. I like to do the broken 200s at 50s as others have suggested but also train 225 or 250s trying to get the endurance you need to finish the 200. In your case you are probably too close to the meet to build endurance with this kind of set. I would personally work on pacing the race by doing 150s where the middle 100 you hold your desired 200 pace. Or even 75s with 25 easy, 50 at your 200 pace. I think finding a pace you feel good at is important. Also don't underestimate the value of working on your streamline off the walls on these pace sets.
I was going to stay out of this but I can't resist. As much as I detest swimming and training for the 200 due to the pain you go through its an awesome event when swum right. I find it to be the easiest race to screw up, either going out too hard or not hard enough and either way you end up hurting like no other event. It's just far enough it's impossible to sprint and just short enough you can't get into a rhythm.
That all said its one of my favorite events. I like to do the broken 200s at 50s as others have suggested but also train 225 or 250s trying to get the endurance you need to finish the 200. In your case you are probably too close to the meet to build endurance with this kind of set. I would personally work on pacing the race by doing 150s where the middle 100 you hold your desired 200 pace. Or even 75s with 25 easy, 50 at your 200 pace. I think finding a pace you feel good at is important. Also don't underestimate the value of working on your streamline off the walls on these pace sets.
