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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  • I need to learn how to do real starts. Mine are getting worse and worse. I'm getting a lesson this weekend, but I really have no clue what I'm doing. Thinking of going back to the grab start from my youth. Maybe some muscle memory will kick in. I used to have a good start. Don't know what happened. But everyone is dissing me big time now, and I gotta fix it soon or I won't be able to bear the humiliation any longer. There now, happy? Give me steps 1-10 for a good start. Step 1 - Bring a hula hoop with you on Sunday Step 2 - Listen to the Hulk Step 3 - Do what the Hulk tells you to do Step 4 - Don't make the Hulk angry Hmm, that should cover it. Wait that's only 4 steps. Dang.
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  • I need to learn how to do real starts. Mine are getting worse and worse. I'm getting a lesson this weekend, but I really have no clue what I'm doing. Thinking of going back to the grab start from my youth. Maybe some muscle memory will kick in. I used to have a good start. Don't know what happened. But everyone is dissing me big time now, and I gotta fix it soon or I won't be able to bear the humiliation any longer. There now, happy? Give me steps 1-10 for a good start. Step 1 - Bring a hula hoop with you on Sunday Step 2 - Listen to the Hulk Step 3 - Do what the Hulk tells you to do Step 4 - Don't make the Hulk angry Hmm, that should cover it. Wait that's only 4 steps. Dang.
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