I love reading all the stories about how much people have improved and how much they have cut down their times. It's very inspiring and encouraging. But as I look at my own times, they don't seem to be coming down. They have dropped about 5 seconds since I started swimming again three months ago, but they have kind of stopped dropping. This is frusturating considering that I feel my form has improved dramatically. So basically I was looking for everyones secrets to making times come down. I work hard, I swim everyday, and it seems no matter what I do they just won't move. Any ideas would be helpful!! And keep up the good work everybody!!!
~Kyra
p.s. my 50 SCY free is about 40 some odd seconds..sometimes in the upper 30's (horrible I know)... and I want to be able to do it in at least 30 (lower) something, but upper 20's would be awesome.....most the rest of my strokes are the same time except for breaststroke which is slower.
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As far as sprint training goes (like 25's or 12.5's as someone suggested), I have been a little leary about sprint training personally because I don't really swim any sprints in competition.......I do some of it from time to time (don't get me wrong), but most of the time I do middle distance/distance related interval training.....I don't think I will ever be swimming any events in competition where I will be "all out" sprinting any parts of the race....I guess it depends on what you swim in meets as to how much sprint training you want to do??....but I definitely agree that general "interval training" is a very important key to dropping times....and I do try to simulate race-like conditions at workout....(i.e. I do believe in the whole philosophy of swimming fast at workout to swim fast at meets).
newmastersswimmer
As far as sprint training goes (like 25's or 12.5's as someone suggested), I have been a little leary about sprint training personally because I don't really swim any sprints in competition.......I do some of it from time to time (don't get me wrong), but most of the time I do middle distance/distance related interval training.....I don't think I will ever be swimming any events in competition where I will be "all out" sprinting any parts of the race....I guess it depends on what you swim in meets as to how much sprint training you want to do??....but I definitely agree that general "interval training" is a very important key to dropping times....and I do try to simulate race-like conditions at workout....(i.e. I do believe in the whole philosophy of swimming fast at workout to swim fast at meets).
newmastersswimmer
