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: .
Evil one.....on a serious note (I know...hard to believe)...you and I have talked about this at length and one thing we both agree on is part of the reason we are swimming the times that we are as masters is the substanial increase in strength we both had vs. in college.
In my case I'm 30lbs heavier (although 15 of that is fat)....but I never lifted in high school and was so over trained and broken down in college couldn't put on weight/muscle. Taking a dozen years off and playing volleybal, skiing, tennis, climbing, kayaking.....and eating all lead to a pretty big inrease in strength.
PS: when are we going to drag Frenchy la Geek behind the woodshed and beat the crap out of him....we should have had Rowdy do it when he was down there!
Evil one.....on a serious note (I know...hard to believe)...you and I have talked about this at length and one thing we both agree on is part of the reason we are swimming the times that we are as masters is the substanial increase in strength we both had vs. in college.
In my case I'm 30lbs heavier (although 15 of that is fat)....but I never lifted in high school and was so over trained and broken down in college couldn't put on weight/muscle. Taking a dozen years off and playing volleybal, skiing, tennis, climbing, kayaking.....and eating all lead to a pretty big inrease in strength.
PS: when are we going to drag Frenchy la Geek behind the woodshed and beat the crap out of him....we should have had Rowdy do it when he was down there!
