Well, I know some of you are big fans of Ti appoach. I would like to read more on it. The library will not vcover the books that deal with backstroke, or breaststroke or butterfly, so I read some articles from time to time on it. Matt S use it for a summer team for kids and uses it himself and others might use some of it.
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Well, one swimmer at the top of her game is Suzanne Heim-Bowen who came from the open swim background. She does high yardage for her age(45) years old and swam an 800 meter freestyle in the same time almost as Debbie Meyer did in the 1968 olympics. Her coaches state that she missed out on developing some of the proper swim technique as a youngster and needs to work on this. But as some have stated before if you can do the cardivasular training and not get injured like Bowen did you might have a chanced at having almost every freestyle record in your age group. Granted she also have a lot of talent. As stated before swimming technique is important but so is the ability to be able to do a lot of swimming and not become injured.
Well, one swimmer at the top of her game is Suzanne Heim-Bowen who came from the open swim background. She does high yardage for her age(45) years old and swam an 800 meter freestyle in the same time almost as Debbie Meyer did in the 1968 olympics. Her coaches state that she missed out on developing some of the proper swim technique as a youngster and needs to work on this. But as some have stated before if you can do the cardivasular training and not get injured like Bowen did you might have a chanced at having almost every freestyle record in your age group. Granted she also have a lot of talent. As stated before swimming technique is important but so is the ability to be able to do a lot of swimming and not become injured.