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
Gotta get up to 30 posts for my customized avatar, so here goes:
Michelle's Dara-on-a-budget: (things I started this past season that I think really helped!!)
1. Dara: 2 full time masseuses => Me - joined Massage Envy.
2. Dara's supplements => Me - 1 Centrum A-Zinc. Metamucil as needed.
3. Dara swims 5x per week => Me - 3 or 4; up from 2 to 3 last year.
4. Dara's dryland/weight training routine => Me - 30 minutes 1x per week; up from nothing last year except stretching.
Have now added/deleted:
1. More drylands, est sustainable at 2x per week.
2. Will not swim 3 days in a row. Too pooped on 3rd day.
3. Go back to the "1 dessert unit per day".
4. Continued focus on sprinting related swim workouts.
My definition of the major breakthrough for next season: assuming I stay healthy and injury free (and my kids, which is the triple whammy if they get sick - no break, not able to work, and no swimming!): Really fast 50's for all strokes! Anything else - swum just to appreciate the 50's and to complete the check-off challenge.
Gotta get up to 30 posts for my customized avatar, so here goes:
Michelle's Dara-on-a-budget: (things I started this past season that I think really helped!!)
1. Dara: 2 full time masseuses => Me - joined Massage Envy.
2. Dara's supplements => Me - 1 Centrum A-Zinc. Metamucil as needed.
3. Dara swims 5x per week => Me - 3 or 4; up from 2 to 3 last year.
4. Dara's dryland/weight training routine => Me - 30 minutes 1x per week; up from nothing last year except stretching.
Have now added/deleted:
1. More drylands, est sustainable at 2x per week.
2. Will not swim 3 days in a row. Too pooped on 3rd day.
3. Go back to the "1 dessert unit per day".
4. Continued focus on sprinting related swim workouts.
My definition of the major breakthrough for next season: assuming I stay healthy and injury free (and my kids, which is the triple whammy if they get sick - no break, not able to work, and no swimming!): Really fast 50's for all strokes! Anything else - swum just to appreciate the 50's and to complete the check-off challenge.
