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
Focus event for this SCM season is the 200 IM.
I've only swum it twice in my life. Here are the results:
(date, 5/18/08)
3:06.86 36.74 1:26.46 (49.72) 2:24.03 (57.57) 3:06.86 (42.83)
(date, 11/23/08)
3:00.65 35.03 1:24.63(49.60) 2:20.41(55.78) 3:00.65(40.24)
I hope to go 2:50.
I've been working on *** and it is improving big time. Fly is improving in the sense I don't want to split it much faster, but I should get through it more relaxed and fresher. Thanks for this post Ande, it motivates me to read other peoples goals.
Does anyone have ideas on where I should focus and how I should train based on these splits?
FYI I haven't been in a tech suit since March and I wore an old fastkin today (pool lost heat, so it helped for warmth). I felt a pronounced speed improvement during practice. I can only imagine a jaked!
Probably work more on your backstroke since that 50 saw the least improvement.
Work on 50s of back where you aren't kicking that much for the first 12.5 meters or yards and you step it up in the last 37.5 meter/yards.
Taken from Elizabeth Beisel's IM philosophy, the fly and free splits should be even or more even. Of course, I still haven't mastered this on the 400 IM yet but I keep that in mind when I do the IM.
It seems that the NYC regions is the SCM mecca of some sorts.
Focus event for this SCM season is the 200 IM.
I've only swum it twice in my life. Here are the results:
(date, 5/18/08)
3:06.86 36.74 1:26.46 (49.72) 2:24.03 (57.57) 3:06.86 (42.83)
(date, 11/23/08)
3:00.65 35.03 1:24.63(49.60) 2:20.41(55.78) 3:00.65(40.24)
I hope to go 2:50.
I've been working on *** and it is improving big time. Fly is improving in the sense I don't want to split it much faster, but I should get through it more relaxed and fresher. Thanks for this post Ande, it motivates me to read other peoples goals.
Does anyone have ideas on where I should focus and how I should train based on these splits?
FYI I haven't been in a tech suit since March and I wore an old fastkin today (pool lost heat, so it helped for warmth). I felt a pronounced speed improvement during practice. I can only imagine a jaked!
Probably work more on your backstroke since that 50 saw the least improvement.
Work on 50s of back where you aren't kicking that much for the first 12.5 meters or yards and you step it up in the last 37.5 meter/yards.
Taken from Elizabeth Beisel's IM philosophy, the fly and free splits should be even or more even. Of course, I still haven't mastered this on the 400 IM yet but I keep that in mind when I do the IM.
It seems that the NYC regions is the SCM mecca of some sorts.
