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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Weights are great for accentuating the effect of taper at the end of the season. Weights help to "break you down" and then rest to rebuild.
I would be careful Evil Smith to draw conclusions between long course and short course performances. Note, your 50m free and fly were sharp, but you also loafed the first half of the 200m free and back halfed it well like you usually do when you are in good middle distance shape. That race was an anomally and should be thrown out of your analysis.
Your 100m free this summer was out way too slow as well. No one in their right mind negative splits a 100m free. Note, I won't tell the readers on this forum who had a faster time in this event. Hell hath frozen that day.
Proper weights make the sprinter..... proper weights make the taper better.
John smith
Weights are great for accentuating the effect of taper at the end of the season. Weights help to "break you down" and then rest to rebuild.
I would be careful Evil Smith to draw conclusions between long course and short course performances. Note, your 50m free and fly were sharp, but you also loafed the first half of the 200m free and back halfed it well like you usually do when you are in good middle distance shape. That race was an anomally and should be thrown out of your analysis.
Your 100m free this summer was out way too slow as well. No one in their right mind negative splits a 100m free. Note, I won't tell the readers on this forum who had a faster time in this event. Hell hath frozen that day.
Proper weights make the sprinter..... proper weights make the taper better.
John smith
