please bear with me while I brag!
Let me remind you .... 2 months ago, in a LCM meet (and my first meet ever) I was doing 1:58 in 100 free!!!! I just started swimming, just over 3 months ago, first time ever, at the age of 34.
This afternoon at the workout the coach had us doing 4x100, on 4 minutes, no holding back race sets. (SCM pool)
I did 1:27, 1:30, 1:33 and 1:31 :)
The coach was very very pleasantly surprised... I was so surprised I thought he was reading off someone else's time!
Earlier in the workout he commented how my stroke is looking really good. Couple other teammates commented on my stroke looking good in last couple of weeks as well...
I'm vevy vevy excited... I think I feel a touchdown dance coming on... ;)
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Originally posted by valhallan
Sparx,
The key to fast swimming is in maintaining that distance per stroke when the engine (torso and arms) increases in turnover. The fastest land animal on the planet (the cheetah) gathers its speed with loooong strides. The same holds true with swimmers.
Since I'm not strong enough yet to have a very high stroke rate, I've noticed that when I put little extra umph into elongating, and stretching forward when I take the stroke, I get going just a tad faster.
Beiing that I'm still building up, for now, I try to make my every 3rd stroke the extra long one, usually the one right after I take the breath, then the other 2 are there to try and not lose the momentum.
As I build up, I hope to be able to do this every stroke.
Originally posted by valhallan
Sparx,
The key to fast swimming is in maintaining that distance per stroke when the engine (torso and arms) increases in turnover. The fastest land animal on the planet (the cheetah) gathers its speed with loooong strides. The same holds true with swimmers.
Since I'm not strong enough yet to have a very high stroke rate, I've noticed that when I put little extra umph into elongating, and stretching forward when I take the stroke, I get going just a tad faster.
Beiing that I'm still building up, for now, I try to make my every 3rd stroke the extra long one, usually the one right after I take the breath, then the other 2 are there to try and not lose the momentum.
As I build up, I hope to be able to do this every stroke.
