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: .
This week was the second week that myself and two of my team mates, both sprinters, held a dedicated sprint workout. We grabbed one lane and started with some good warm up then a continuous relay till each of us had gone 4x50 to get the heart pumping and practice our starts. Then alittle recovery swim. We finished up with 3 from the block swims of our choice, for time. Each week we are getting progressively faster (beating best times we had just set the previous week) and feel this is really helping us to know how to sprint. Practice makes perfect!
When you take 2.5 seconds off a 100 swim that has been around the same time for the last 3 years I would say that was a successful effort. Can't wait to see what we can do next week.
:joker:
This week was the second week that myself and two of my team mates, both sprinters, held a dedicated sprint workout. We grabbed one lane and started with some good warm up then a continuous relay till each of us had gone 4x50 to get the heart pumping and practice our starts. Then alittle recovery swim. We finished up with 3 from the block swims of our choice, for time. Each week we are getting progressively faster (beating best times we had just set the previous week) and feel this is really helping us to know how to sprint. Practice makes perfect!
When you take 2.5 seconds off a 100 swim that has been around the same time for the last 3 years I would say that was a successful effort. Can't wait to see what we can do next week.
:joker:
