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
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.
I used to have a great start,but some how it was just getting slower and slower.At a meet last year a coach friend of mine said"I have never seen any one in lane four of the fast heat with that slow a start."I went to a start and turn clinic a couple of weeks ago by Dennis Baker.He said he talked to an Aussie sprinter and she said look up,not down,to move your center of gravity forward.He told me NOT to bend my arms on the start but to sweep them forward.I'm not sure why but that feels a lot faster.I hope your start instruction helps.It should.
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.
I used to have a great start,but some how it was just getting slower and slower.At a meet last year a coach friend of mine said"I have never seen any one in lane four of the fast heat with that slow a start."I went to a start and turn clinic a couple of weeks ago by Dennis Baker.He said he talked to an Aussie sprinter and she said look up,not down,to move your center of gravity forward.He told me NOT to bend my arms on the start but to sweep them forward.I'm not sure why but that feels a lot faster.I hope your start instruction helps.It should.
