Hi. I'm a 15 year old boy working on swimming in the Provincial High School meet next year and will be participating in the 50m SC *** hopefully. I did horribly this year, with a 41.05. Anyways, the swimming season of my high school is now officially over =(. But I'm starting to train on my own. Does anyone have any good workout or sets they like to share? As well as tips? I'm working on getting my time to below 35s. Yeah, it's very difficult, but I'll try.
Naturally, I went to Wayne's site for ideas first. His workout article was superb, but it doesn't seem to focus on sprint breaststroke all that much.
So if anyone can share any good workouts I'll be able to do (I swim in a 30m pool normally), or any good sets, drills. etc to improve my 50m sprint ***, please post them here. Interval sets, etc.. Also, any dryland exercises are also welcome.
Thanks a lot!
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lol @ geochuck. What's wrong with breaststroke? A lot of the guys on my high school team this year would rather do a 200 *** than a 200 fly.
Thanks 2 everyone else for the detailed explanations. But can anyone answer 2 questions I have right now that were also on the last post?
They are:
1)I think I'm having a major glitch in my stroke. When I'm going all out, sometimes my thumbs can touch my forehead during recovery! (thumbs are perpendicular to hands during this)! Once my wild thumbs knocked my goggles right off. Is this a common error? I've been watching Warneke swim slow motion and it seems that his recovery is different from, say, Hansen and Kitajima's and his hands are coming close to his head too. Also his undulation is far greater than theirs too - you can see his butt coming out of the water like in fly. Oh yea, the thumb thing only happens when I'm not focusing too well on my strokes. Happens rarely, but it happened so I noticed it.
2) What should I do for dryland? People have been telling me not to randomly do weights, but are pushups and situps okay? Squats? People say they're bad for the knees, but hell I'm swimming lots of breaststroke anyways.
Oh yea, GoRedFox, your drill is excellent. I've been pulling myself from 3.5m deep water no pushoff from the ground. I would drop to the bottom, when I feel my heels have hit the bottom pull up. The thing is, I can't make any part of my body pop out except my head =(. Is it possible to get powerful enough to pull my torso out? Even my speedo out of the water?
One more thing, for a 25m length, I can usually do 8 strokes from pushoff and pullout going normal speed. Going fast I use 10 to 11 strokes, and going slow 7 strokes. Is that too much? I feel that my strokes aren't that long and I couldn't glide very far. What are some ways to increase my distance traveled per stroke? Any practices to strengthen the leg kick more?
Thanks a lot guys. This thread's soo helpful.
lol @ geochuck. What's wrong with breaststroke? A lot of the guys on my high school team this year would rather do a 200 *** than a 200 fly.
Thanks 2 everyone else for the detailed explanations. But can anyone answer 2 questions I have right now that were also on the last post?
They are:
1)I think I'm having a major glitch in my stroke. When I'm going all out, sometimes my thumbs can touch my forehead during recovery! (thumbs are perpendicular to hands during this)! Once my wild thumbs knocked my goggles right off. Is this a common error? I've been watching Warneke swim slow motion and it seems that his recovery is different from, say, Hansen and Kitajima's and his hands are coming close to his head too. Also his undulation is far greater than theirs too - you can see his butt coming out of the water like in fly. Oh yea, the thumb thing only happens when I'm not focusing too well on my strokes. Happens rarely, but it happened so I noticed it.
2) What should I do for dryland? People have been telling me not to randomly do weights, but are pushups and situps okay? Squats? People say they're bad for the knees, but hell I'm swimming lots of breaststroke anyways.
Oh yea, GoRedFox, your drill is excellent. I've been pulling myself from 3.5m deep water no pushoff from the ground. I would drop to the bottom, when I feel my heels have hit the bottom pull up. The thing is, I can't make any part of my body pop out except my head =(. Is it possible to get powerful enough to pull my torso out? Even my speedo out of the water?
One more thing, for a 25m length, I can usually do 8 strokes from pushoff and pullout going normal speed. Going fast I use 10 to 11 strokes, and going slow 7 strokes. Is that too much? I feel that my strokes aren't that long and I couldn't glide very far. What are some ways to increase my distance traveled per stroke? Any practices to strengthen the leg kick more?
Thanks a lot guys. This thread's soo helpful.
