Hello, I am realatively new to swimming and I would like some advice about stroke rate.
I am currently swimming on a 25 yard pool and when swimming freestyle I do about 20-22 strokes (10-11 stroke cycles). I start in the water witout pushing against the wall at all everytime I do the count. I am a 28 year old man 6' 1'' tall. Are my numbers OK? or should I have less strokes?
Also I would like to begin training for 100 meter freestyle races. Could anybody provide me with an average trainning schedule for an entire season. My personal goal is to swimm 100 meters in or below 1 minute and I hope I can achive that by next year. I would like to know, how many times a week should I train, how much time, what distances, type of workout, etc.
Many thanks in advance.
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Sopas -- Push off the wall, man!
I'm 6'6", so my experience won't be directly comparable.
With my best push off the wall and best stroke form, I'll usually do 10-12 strokes (or 5-6 cycles.) With average push I'll usually do 12-15. (Most often 14.) (Note: 25 YARD pool.)
You will have to figure out how to extrapolate that to your experience without a push (unless you "re-calibrate" yourself by counting strokes WITH a push.)
Here's something that might be interesting and helpful. A few weeks ago I had an opportunity to swim in a 50 METER pool. When I swim in a 25 meter pool I usually find myself doing about 2 more strokes per length (sometimes only 1 more) than in 25 yards because of the longer distance. So we might think that doubling the 25 meter count would give me my 50 meter count. Hardly! What happens is that in a 50 meter pool I now have to swim through the distance I would have covered on my turn and push in the 25m pool for every other length. (Hope that made sense.) So where I would usually do perhaps 16 strokes per 25 meters, I was doing more like 37-38 strokes per 50 meters. This tells me that my turns (AND PUSH) save me 5-6 strokes or so.
So I'll repeat my first words of advice to you: Push off the wall, man! :) :)
Sopas -- Push off the wall, man!
I'm 6'6", so my experience won't be directly comparable.
With my best push off the wall and best stroke form, I'll usually do 10-12 strokes (or 5-6 cycles.) With average push I'll usually do 12-15. (Most often 14.) (Note: 25 YARD pool.)
You will have to figure out how to extrapolate that to your experience without a push (unless you "re-calibrate" yourself by counting strokes WITH a push.)
Here's something that might be interesting and helpful. A few weeks ago I had an opportunity to swim in a 50 METER pool. When I swim in a 25 meter pool I usually find myself doing about 2 more strokes per length (sometimes only 1 more) than in 25 yards because of the longer distance. So we might think that doubling the 25 meter count would give me my 50 meter count. Hardly! What happens is that in a 50 meter pool I now have to swim through the distance I would have covered on my turn and push in the 25m pool for every other length. (Hope that made sense.) So where I would usually do perhaps 16 strokes per 25 meters, I was doing more like 37-38 strokes per 50 meters. This tells me that my turns (AND PUSH) save me 5-6 strokes or so.
So I'll repeat my first words of advice to you: Push off the wall, man! :) :)
