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 >.
Thank you very much!
Yeah that first 25m was kind of slow, normally when im going out somewhere like 13.3-13.7s on 25m, i think in this case it was the bad breakout. i was to deep in the water when i did my first pull.
I really need to work on my starts, i rarely do that and they dont feel powerful at all.
9.2s on 25M are awesome, i think i need 7s for only the first 15m.
i will, like you say, from now on, do several starts in every workout.
and will try as well to do more dolphinkicks after the turn.
for streamline: i think i tend to look forward in sprinting, i will try to avoid that.
i hope with that, and a lot of flutterkicktraining i can improve my times!
thank you alot, for watching over my swimming and helping me!
i thought about lifting wheights, but i dont know if now is the right time to start with that, or if i should try to improve more without that first? i often read it can be bad for technique.
Thank you very much!
Yeah that first 25m was kind of slow, normally when im going out somewhere like 13.3-13.7s on 25m, i think in this case it was the bad breakout. i was to deep in the water when i did my first pull.
I really need to work on my starts, i rarely do that and they dont feel powerful at all.
9.2s on 25M are awesome, i think i need 7s for only the first 15m.
i will, like you say, from now on, do several starts in every workout.
and will try as well to do more dolphinkicks after the turn.
for streamline: i think i tend to look forward in sprinting, i will try to avoid that.
i hope with that, and a lot of flutterkicktraining i can improve my times!
thank you alot, for watching over my swimming and helping me!
i thought about lifting wheights, but i dont know if now is the right time to start with that, or if i should try to improve more without that first? i often read it can be bad for technique.
