I'm looking to gain more knowledge about sprint freestyle swimming. As an long retired distance freestyler I don't have a great deal of personal knowledge of how to swim the 50 or 100 freestyle. I've coached many sprint freestylers and I know that many of the best sprinters have what I would say an amazing strategy to their sprint swims. I am currently giving private lessons to many age groupers and high school swimmers and I've been explaining to them that some of the best sprinters in the world swim their 50 or 100 with more strategy than just the plain old thought of swimming "FAST".
I would very much appreciate any of you sprinters out there who would like to share your strategies for swimming these two events. I would love to be able to pass on some of this information, but I think many of us in the masters community could learn from some of you as well. I look forward to seeing some of the responses. Maybe I will try sprinting one day (LOL):rofl: .
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Don't give your swimmers a long list of crap to think about when they race
Give them things to think about when they train
Meets are where swimmers apply what they've trained to do
Racing is war
it's fight or flight
get out of your head and in into the moment
ATTACK
race commands need to be short simple and specific
you can create different commands for each part of the race
you can be pretty sure when popov went 21.6 his self talk during the race were things like "GO attack win destroy, I will not lose"
aquaholic
Don't give your swimmers a long list of crap to think about when they race
Give them things to think about when they train
Meets are where swimmers apply what they've trained to do
Racing is war
it's fight or flight
get out of your head and in into the moment
ATTACK
race commands need to be short simple and specific
you can create different commands for each part of the race
you can be pretty sure when popov went 21.6 his self talk during the race were things like "GO attack win destroy, I will not lose"
aquaholic
