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
goodsmith is part of the covert uss olympic swimmer breeding program, his wife tori swam backstroke in the 1988 olympics,
she's tall slim and talented. john is 6' 4 ish but I do recall he had small feet like size 10, john was 1:35ish in the 200 free, 43 or 44 in the 100 and one heck of a great quadrathlon swimmer
If their offspring
+ get in a good program
+ train hard and
+ master the underwater dolphin kick
they could be very impressive swimmers
ande
Originally posted by TheGoodSmith
Well...... I was being facetious in my response, but you can not deny the importance of genetics. And to answer your question directly, Frank, "yes". If I was 22 and racing Micheal Phelps in the 200 fly or 400 IM and did my best times (when I lost and got pounded) .... I really don't think there would be anything wrong in admitting "genetic" defeat.
As for my own children. I have 3 and they all swim competitively (I make them swim to get away from the TV). I love to watch them race. My son had a sharp 50yd back a week ago and went a 32.6 . It was a breakthrough swim for him on several levels. He's a really big kid .... 10 years old, 5'7", 112 lbs. I was 88lbs at his age. Genetics..... it's a wild card in the end.
John Smith
goodsmith is part of the covert uss olympic swimmer breeding program, his wife tori swam backstroke in the 1988 olympics,
she's tall slim and talented. john is 6' 4 ish but I do recall he had small feet like size 10, john was 1:35ish in the 200 free, 43 or 44 in the 100 and one heck of a great quadrathlon swimmer
If their offspring
+ get in a good program
+ train hard and
+ master the underwater dolphin kick
they could be very impressive swimmers
ande
Originally posted by TheGoodSmith
Well...... I was being facetious in my response, but you can not deny the importance of genetics. And to answer your question directly, Frank, "yes". If I was 22 and racing Micheal Phelps in the 200 fly or 400 IM and did my best times (when I lost and got pounded) .... I really don't think there would be anything wrong in admitting "genetic" defeat.
As for my own children. I have 3 and they all swim competitively (I make them swim to get away from the TV). I love to watch them race. My son had a sharp 50yd back a week ago and went a 32.6 . It was a breakthrough swim for him on several levels. He's a really big kid .... 10 years old, 5'7", 112 lbs. I was 88lbs at his age. Genetics..... it's a wild card in the end.
John Smith
