I've been counting breaths and strokes at 25 & 50 yds.
I seem to be doing 6 strokes before a breath, breathing about 4 times then flip turn, doing 3 strokes and a breath, then finishing the 50 with the contunied 6 -4 strokes and a breath.
Finshing 50yds in 35 sec. starting from the wall, I didn't feel it was 100% because I had already swam about 2X200's with a 3:00 min rest before this first interval. Plus pool was too warm today yuk!
Is is good, not good, can improve, what should my goal be?
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Originally posted by geochuck
Since when is swimming 200s sprint training. Gotta get into 25s or 50s. some with 15 sec intervals some with 20 sec intervals.
Sprint training with 15-20 second intervals? Really? I consider a sprint to be an all out swim...giving it everything you've got. When you get to the finish you have given your all. Maybe I am weak but after such a swim I need a minute of rest to do the same sprint again, especially if I am going to do it 6 times.
Good for you for speed training Concho! Lot of fun isn't it?
You might try to breath less if possible. The air isn't terribly useful for a race that short anyway. Work your way up to it. The best 50 yard freestylers don't breath at all, but I seem to find that a bit beyond me for now.
I agree with you scyfreestyler- people seem to use the terms "sprint" and "fast" interchangeably when I think they are different. My former masters coach would say that we were going to do a sprint set. I would get all excited, and then she would tell us we were doing 10 100's on 1:20! Then I'd get deflated as to me that is not a sprint set, but instead an endurance set which i would try to swim the fastest pace i could.
I like at least :30 sec / 25 rest if I'm sprinting in order to recover reasonably well to continue on.
For a broken swim like one of the posters was suggesting, taking 5 or 10 sec rest for each 25 for a 100 swim, i'd want to rest a couple of minutes in between each 100, not 40 sec.
I agree with you scyfreestyler- people seem to use the terms "sprint" and "fast" interchangeably when I think they are different. My former masters coach would say that we were going to do a sprint set. I would get all excited, and then she would tell us we were doing 10 100's on 1:20! Then I'd get deflated as to me that is not a sprint set, but instead an endurance set which i would try to swim the fastest pace i could.
I like at least :30 sec / 25 rest if I'm sprinting in order to recover reasonably well to continue on.
For a broken swim like one of the posters was suggesting, taking 5 or 10 sec rest for each 25 for a 100 swim, i'd want to rest a couple of minutes in between each 100, not 40 sec.
psyncw
Training to sprint and sprinting are 2 different things.
In the old days we did continuous relays of 25 yards and went as fast as we could for 25 yards. This was sprinting with a real rest between each 25, we had 7 or 8 swimmers per team. It also helped perfect our dives, we did not push off the wall.
