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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Originally posted by spintwo
Is this competition speed or moderate practice speed?
Moderate pace.
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Sopas -- I think you are over-thinking and over-analyzing this.
Swimmers take far more strokes at racing speed to attain max speed. But that's why a swimmer expends all his energy in 50 or 100 yards as opposed to being able to swim a 1500m race.
You're probably not doing that sort of racing speed in your workouts.
I haven't taken the time to find it, but I'll bet that you'll see that Gary Hall took far more strokes on his one length 50M race than Michael Phelps did in his first length (or even his last length) of his 200m race.
And yes, even a 1500m swimmer will take more strokes on the last length than on any other as he kicks to the finish -- especially if he's eyeball-to-eyeball with his competition!
Originally posted by spintwo
Is this competition speed or moderate practice speed?
Moderate pace.
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Sopas -- I think you are over-thinking and over-analyzing this.
Swimmers take far more strokes at racing speed to attain max speed. But that's why a swimmer expends all his energy in 50 or 100 yards as opposed to being able to swim a 1500m race.
You're probably not doing that sort of racing speed in your workouts.
I haven't taken the time to find it, but I'll bet that you'll see that Gary Hall took far more strokes on his one length 50M race than Michael Phelps did in his first length (or even his last length) of his 200m race.
And yes, even a 1500m swimmer will take more strokes on the last length than on any other as he kicks to the finish -- especially if he's eyeball-to-eyeball with his competition!
