Hi There,
I recently asked a female friend what she could do 100m in, expecting to be maybe ten secs behind as she is what I would term a good swimmer. Unfortunetly my 1.40 paled when compared with her 1.15. I consoled myself with the knowledge that I have only been swimming 1 year and I have been mainly TI drilling concentrating on Technique.
Now it is time for speed. I have started to compete in sprint tri's so I am looking to get around the 6min mark for 400m.
I have can swim most days and my local pool is 33m in length. Can anyone show me the way?
Thanks for your time
Dec
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I have an experience similar to yourself. I am trying to get faster. Specificaly i am trying to get under 60 secs for the 100m free and under 2:25 for the 200m free.
I stopped swimming at Club at age 14, a choice between swimming and Captain of the school Rugby club.
In 1995 I started rebuilding my strokes and used the TI method for the first 3 years. Then I found a club and an excellent " National level " coach. I was lucky in that he wanted to focus on technique. He used a lot of drills that I later found out had come from an Australian video series by Bill Sweetenham.
Eventually my times came down from 1:35 for the 100m free to 1:10 for the 100m free SC. Lately they have stayed level. Now I use swim info from a wide variety of sources and i am making steady improvement.
The one result of years of TI drills at slow tempo is that my Stroke rate has become very slow. I am now working to increase that by short 25m swims at max tempo which for me is 42 cycles/min.
Check your stroke rate , is it slow ? If you can raise it and hold your technique together then you will go faster.
I have an experience similar to yourself. I am trying to get faster. Specificaly i am trying to get under 60 secs for the 100m free and under 2:25 for the 200m free.
I stopped swimming at Club at age 14, a choice between swimming and Captain of the school Rugby club.
In 1995 I started rebuilding my strokes and used the TI method for the first 3 years. Then I found a club and an excellent " National level " coach. I was lucky in that he wanted to focus on technique. He used a lot of drills that I later found out had come from an Australian video series by Bill Sweetenham.
Eventually my times came down from 1:35 for the 100m free to 1:10 for the 100m free SC. Lately they have stayed level. Now I use swim info from a wide variety of sources and i am making steady improvement.
The one result of years of TI drills at slow tempo is that my Stroke rate has become very slow. I am now working to increase that by short 25m swims at max tempo which for me is 42 cycles/min.
Check your stroke rate , is it slow ? If you can raise it and hold your technique together then you will go faster.
