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
I need to learn how to do real starts. Mine are getting worse and worse. I'm getting a lesson this weekend, but I really have no clue what I'm doing. Thinking of going back to the grab start from my youth. Maybe some muscle memory will kick in. I used to have a good start. Don't know what happened. But everyone is dissing me big time now, and I gotta fix it soon or I won't be able to bear the humiliation any longer.
There now, happy?
Give me steps 1-10 for a good start.
you've got to get off the blocks fast and enter well on your dive
I wrote about it in this SFF tip
www.usms.org/.../showthread.php
I switched to the track start in 2007, I used to use a regular start and thought I'd never switch
I still do a two foot start on relays
I think I had a decent start in this race.
www.flocasts.org/.../coverage.php
I think I'd jump better if my legs were stronger
You don't want to practice too many starts
Just do a few a day
I need to learn how to do real starts. Mine are getting worse and worse. I'm getting a lesson this weekend, but I really have no clue what I'm doing. Thinking of going back to the grab start from my youth. Maybe some muscle memory will kick in. I used to have a good start. Don't know what happened. But everyone is dissing me big time now, and I gotta fix it soon or I won't be able to bear the humiliation any longer.
There now, happy?
Give me steps 1-10 for a good start.
I need to learn how to do real starts. Mine are getting worse and worse. I'm getting a lesson this weekend, but I really have no clue what I'm doing. Thinking of going back to the grab start from my youth. Maybe some muscle memory will kick in. I used to have a good start. Don't know what happened. But everyone is dissing me big time now, and I gotta fix it soon or I won't be able to bear the humiliation any longer.
There now, happy?
Give me steps 1-10 for a good start.
Step 1 - Bring a hula hoop with you on Sunday
Step 2 - Listen to the Hulk
Step 3 - Do what the Hulk tells you to do
Step 4 - Don't make the Hulk angry
Hmm, that should cover it. Wait that's only 4 steps. Dang.
I need to learn how to do real starts. Mine are getting worse and worse. I'm getting a lesson this weekend, but I really have no clue what I'm doing. Thinking of going back to the grab start from my youth. Maybe some muscle memory will kick in. I used to have a good start. Don't know what happened. But everyone is dissing me big time now, and I gotta fix it soon or I won't be able to bear the humiliation any longer.
There now, happy?
Give me steps 1-10 for a good start.
I used to have a great start,but some how it was just getting slower and slower.At a meet last year a coach friend of mine said"I have never seen any one in lane four of the fast heat with that slow a start."I went to a start and turn clinic a couple of weeks ago by Dennis Baker.He said he talked to an Aussie sprinter and she said look up,not down,to move your center of gravity forward.He told me NOT to bend my arms on the start but to sweep them forward.I'm not sure why but that feels a lot faster.I hope your start instruction helps.It should.
In no particular order:
Put in a solid summer of long course training
Weights three times/week instead of only one or two
Focus on the 400/500
Lunges to build up my quads so I can get off the wall faster and further
Buy a LZR (without my wife spotting the charge)
Let me sum this up in one word -- you need CHANGE in order to have any type of swimming breakthrough.
CHANGE something your stroke (hopefully for the better) - but really change it - don't just talk about it. Do 4 Fly kicks after every wall in every single practice.
CHANGE your body - lose 20 pounds, not 2 --
CHANGE your workouts - don't just add yardage - add quality. Only count your yards done at race pace or faster every week - I bet there are many good swimmers at 0 for many weeks
CHANGE your routines - don't expect different results from doing the same things
I can't believe more people aren't interested in this
Don't you want to have a major swimming breakthrough?
What do you need to do to make YOURS happen?
you can also find a thread on this at:
www.usms.org/.../showthread.php
