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
hey Chris,
you have an excellent plan there.
You should be able to easily smash the
50, 100 & 200 bk WRs,
the 57.1 100 SCM fly record is softer than the 56.4 LCM record,
dennis baker's 2:06 200 FL is pretty challenging but way softer than his 2:04 LCM record,
I also think the 8:49 800 SCM fr record is pretty soft.
Jim Mc's 4:14 400 fr is doable for you, plus you'll have a suit advantage compared to what he had in 1999.
I agree about legs, if your legs go out in a race, you're done, even if your race isn't. It's critical so have something left at the end of races for hard push offs & SDK.
It's important to have leg speed, power, and endurance.
I plan to do more leg presses, leg extensions, & leg curls, along with more fast kicking:
flutter, back, SDK, fly on my side for longer kicks, & breastroke.
Need to do a better job 6 beat kicking in free.
I plan to do some extra breastroke training,
it's a critical part of the IM,
here's how I split last year's 200 IM
29.10
34.93
38.82
31.31 2:14.16
I need to get out a bit faster on the FL & BK this year
then go faster on the BR & FR.
in my 2008 race I let up a little in on my FR kick
I've got to blast my legs the whole way
on my 200 IM LCM I came home in 31.2 so I'm pretty sure I can come home in 30 point something SCM
We'll see.
Ande
hey Chris,
you have an excellent plan there.
You should be able to easily smash the
50, 100 & 200 bk WRs,
the 57.1 100 SCM fly record is softer than the 56.4 LCM record,
dennis baker's 2:06 200 FL is pretty challenging but way softer than his 2:04 LCM record,
I also think the 8:49 800 SCM fr record is pretty soft.
Jim Mc's 4:14 400 fr is doable for you, plus you'll have a suit advantage compared to what he had in 1999.
I agree about legs, if your legs go out in a race, you're done, even if your race isn't. It's critical so have something left at the end of races for hard push offs & SDK.
It's important to have leg speed, power, and endurance.
I plan to do more leg presses, leg extensions, & leg curls, along with more fast kicking:
flutter, back, SDK, fly on my side for longer kicks, & breastroke.
Need to do a better job 6 beat kicking in free.
I plan to do some extra breastroke training,
it's a critical part of the IM,
here's how I split last year's 200 IM
29.10
34.93
38.82
31.31 2:14.16
I need to get out a bit faster on the FL & BK this year
then go faster on the BR & FR.
in my 2008 race I let up a little in on my FR kick
I've got to blast my legs the whole way
on my 200 IM LCM I came home in 31.2 so I'm pretty sure I can come home in 30 point something SCM
We'll see.
Ande
