What do YOU need to do to have a major swimming breakthrough?

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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  • Rtodd, I mean train for the 200's *** in practice Phelps breathes every stroke, you need air, most masters don't put in enough training to really attack the 200 IM, if they really attack it they wind up with a time and splits that are worse than if they split it right. keep working on Back to *** turns turn them into a dream swim back smooth & fast I need to attack it more. back is leg and arm driven, swimmers need to have energy at the 100 to finish strong.
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  • Rtodd, I mean train for the 200's *** in practice Phelps breathes every stroke, you need air, most masters don't put in enough training to really attack the 200 IM, if they really attack it they wind up with a time and splits that are worse than if they split it right. keep working on Back to *** turns turn them into a dream swim back smooth & fast I need to attack it more. back is leg and arm driven, swimmers need to have energy at the 100 to finish strong.
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