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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Former Member
Allright ande, Ill bite.
I would like to go under 2:00 for 200 SCM free. I train by myself, and usually in a scy pool (easier to get some speedy sets in without the slalom action in the meter tank). I cobble togther workouts from the sets I find on this site. Right now, I can pull off a 1:56-57(ish) scy from a push in practice. I swim M-F, ~1.5h/workout. Weekends are hiking/biking/something that doesnt involve chlorine.
Heres what I think I need to do:
1) work on "sprint endurance". My understanding of this is fast swims on fairly speedy intervals - ex, sets of broken 200s. I tend to psych myself out on these sets cause I know theryre going to hurt. I need to suck it up and do them once or twice a week (more?).
2) swim a 200 for time at least once a week.
3) 2-3 SDKs off every wall. Very hard for me; I start to gasp after about 100 y of hard swimming and surface too fast to suck wind.
4) Lift weights 3x a week.
5) stretch!
6) enter more meets.
Matt
Allright ande, Ill bite.
I would like to go under 2:00 for 200 SCM free. I train by myself, and usually in a scy pool (easier to get some speedy sets in without the slalom action in the meter tank). I cobble togther workouts from the sets I find on this site. Right now, I can pull off a 1:56-57(ish) scy from a push in practice. I swim M-F, ~1.5h/workout. Weekends are hiking/biking/something that doesnt involve chlorine.
Heres what I think I need to do:
1) work on "sprint endurance". My understanding of this is fast swims on fairly speedy intervals - ex, sets of broken 200s. I tend to psych myself out on these sets cause I know theryre going to hurt. I need to suck it up and do them once or twice a week (more?).
2) swim a 200 for time at least once a week.
3) 2-3 SDKs off every wall. Very hard for me; I start to gasp after about 100 y of hard swimming and surface too fast to suck wind.
4) Lift weights 3x a week.
5) stretch!
6) enter more meets.
Matt
