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 think I've had a bit of a breakthrough with my butterfly. Based on Paul/Hulk's comment on my video, that my recovery looked forced, I've been trying to do a more relaxed recovery and I think it has improved my overall technique significantly as the recovery now fits into the overall timing. I got a lot of comments at Nationals that my fly looked really good. It certainly feels smoother and more efficient. Unfortunately it is also slower :rolleyes: So, what I need to make a breakthrough is to learn to keep the form but with higher turnover (i.e. speed everything up equally instead of just my arms). And I need to improve my SDK. I think that my big problem may be ankle flexibility as I have no problem with fins which I take to imply that I've got the strength and fitness. Am I right about that?
I think I've had a bit of a breakthrough with my butterfly. Based on Paul/Hulk's comment on my video, that my recovery looked forced, I've been trying to do a more relaxed recovery and I think it has improved my overall technique significantly as the recovery now fits into the overall timing. I got a lot of comments at Nationals that my fly looked really good. It certainly feels smoother and more efficient. Unfortunately it is also slower :rolleyes: So, what I need to make a breakthrough is to learn to keep the form but with higher turnover (i.e. speed everything up equally instead of just my arms). And I need to improve my SDK. I think that my big problem may be ankle flexibility as I have no problem with fins which I take to imply that I've got the strength and fitness. Am I right about that?
