What do YOU need to do to have a major swimming breakthrough?

One topic of great interest to us all is "What do you need to do to have a major swimming breakthrough?" "What do you need to do to significantly improve your swimming times in the days and weeks left in THIS season?" What I'm looking for are specific, nitty gritty type suggestions. I think it's really easy to fall into a rut, to just show up and go through the motions rather than seizing the moment while we train. Does anyone have any thoughts on what we need to do to significantly improve? I thought this would be an interesting topic to discuss Ande
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  • that helps, swimming favors particular body types if your parents have that shape it's likely you will too For free, back, and fly it would be tall skinny yet strong and coordinated people with big hands and big floppy feet also I think it helps to start early in life get in a great program also I think it helps to have siblings to compete with mentally it helps if the person hates to lose and is willing to train hard for years to prevent it. raz Originally posted by TheGoodSmith Pick the right mother and father before you are born. John Smith
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  • that helps, swimming favors particular body types if your parents have that shape it's likely you will too For free, back, and fly it would be tall skinny yet strong and coordinated people with big hands and big floppy feet also I think it helps to start early in life get in a great program also I think it helps to have siblings to compete with mentally it helps if the person hates to lose and is willing to train hard for years to prevent it. raz Originally posted by TheGoodSmith Pick the right mother and father before you are born. John Smith
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