Hello!
I´m from Germany 25 years old and I hope my english is understandable... :)
I´m swimming for 3 years now, and I really love it and want to be as good as i can!
For the last year i started practicing very hard. 5-7 times a week, but i have the problem that i dont see any improvements in the 50m of any stroke...
I dont have a Trainer, and there are no forums like this in german where i could ask someone. at the moment i´m swimming with someone i know from university (but he is a much better swimmer than me, 25.2s on 50m) but he doesnt know how to help either, hes just telling me to keep training^^ thats what i will do anyway!!
Maybe someone has experienced a similiar problem and knows how to fix it. i will try to explain where the problems in my swimming skills are...
when i started swimming and learned the techniques by myself, watchning youtube videos and reading a lot of books about swimming i have been improving very fast until i swim ~30s on 50m short course. that was about 1,5years after i started. about half a year later i was down to 28.8s on 50m short course, but from this point on wasnt improving anymore. that 28.8 is still my best time...
last weekend i swam 30.1 on 50m long course. i dont understand it because i put so much effort in my swimming training, and i got better i.e. in holding good times in intervalls, or in 100m and 200m and longer distances. but no improvement in 50m. i believe i´m naturally a sprinter, i always was, in evry sport i did, canoeing, and bicycling which i first did on the street but then changed to velodrome. still i love swimming more than any other sport i did.
that 30.1 makes me kind of upset... so that i want to train even harder >.
That was a good 50!
You were 14.5 out, and 15 low back, which brings 2 things to mind:
1)Though you took 5 more strokes back, you were only just over 0.5 faster on the first 25 which seems that you can improve your start. Wiki plyometrics, also power training with weights can help too (there is an Olympic style power lifter masters swimmer who does 25M in 9.2, with little pool training). Work the streamline position throughout, avoid lifting head forward
2) You may be conditioned for more than a 50, 25 training is good but also try to improve your 15m times from the block.
A knock-out start and breakout can turn a 29 swim into a 27-28
Others more experienced in this area should soon chime in, stay tooned ..
Grüβe
That was a good 50!
You were 14.5 out, and 15 low back, which brings 2 things to mind:
1)Though you took 5 more strokes back, you were only just over 0.5 faster on the first 25 which seems that you can improve your start. Wiki plyometrics, also power training with weights can help too (there is an Olympic style power lifter masters swimmer who does 25M in 9.2, with little pool training). Work the streamline position throughout, avoid lifting head forward
2) You may be conditioned for more than a 50, 25 training is good but also try to improve your 15m times from the block.
A knock-out start and breakout can turn a 29 swim into a 27-28
Others more experienced in this area should soon chime in, stay tooned ..
Grüβe
