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
Another possibility for fly endurance is to swim free at a moderately hard pace to get tired, and then switch to fly and work to keep tempo up. An
example would be:
10 x 100 1:30 75 moderately hard free/25 fly
It sounds like a good idea but I have always had a really hard time switching from free to fly within an individual swim, I don't know why.
Two other fly-related things I plan to work on -- forgot to mention these:
-- explore how breathing every stroke works on my 200 fly
-- changing speeds in fly, eg 100s fly alternating easy/fast/easy/fast by 25s, or 200s fly doing the same by 50s.
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 won't have a suit advantage, I'm plannig on jammers unless maybe if FINA reverses itself (always a possibility). I think a certain Gator will smash the 400 record if he swims it, and Jeff Erwin -- who also aged up -- will claim the distance frees without a problem.
I would really like to swim the 400 free for time -- I have never done one rested in SCM and went 4:17 unrested two years ago -- but I will put more priority on the back and fly events. I am a little disenchanted with freestyle right now, but it all depends on the event order in whatever meet I swim when I rest.
The 200 fly may be "soft" compared to LCM, but it still looks plenty hard to me! Since I went 2:10.9 last year, I would be immensely happy with something in the 2:08 range this year.
Another possibility for fly endurance is to swim free at a moderately hard pace to get tired, and then switch to fly and work to keep tempo up. An
example would be:
10 x 100 1:30 75 moderately hard free/25 fly
It sounds like a good idea but I have always had a really hard time switching from free to fly within an individual swim, I don't know why.
Two other fly-related things I plan to work on -- forgot to mention these:
-- explore how breathing every stroke works on my 200 fly
-- changing speeds in fly, eg 100s fly alternating easy/fast/easy/fast by 25s, or 200s fly doing the same by 50s.
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 won't have a suit advantage, I'm plannig on jammers unless maybe if FINA reverses itself (always a possibility). I think a certain Gator will smash the 400 record if he swims it, and Jeff Erwin -- who also aged up -- will claim the distance frees without a problem.
I would really like to swim the 400 free for time -- I have never done one rested in SCM and went 4:17 unrested two years ago -- but I will put more priority on the back and fly events. I am a little disenchanted with freestyle right now, but it all depends on the event order in whatever meet I swim when I rest.
The 200 fly may be "soft" compared to LCM, but it still looks plenty hard to me! Since I went 2:10.9 last year, I would be immensely happy with something in the 2:08 range this year.
