I'm trying to determine what level of strength is required to be a good sprinter (i.e. 100 free).
Could you list your max repetitions of push ups, pull ups and dips? This would give me some assesment on power to weight ratio and strength endurance.
Also, what is your max bench press if you know it? or reps of 225 lbs. I'm curious about what level of pure strength sprinters have.
I think I am deficient mostly in technique and then strength endurance but maybe this post would show me I need weight room work.
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Lindsay....God forbid I bring up another TI strategy I support, but what the heck. In warm up, warm down and at race pace I try and maintain the exact stroke count (based on 200 race pace which is 10 per lap yds)....
You'll certainly get no argument from me on that. Perhaps rtodd holds his 14 spl in his races, it was just the way that he qualified the circumstances of his 14 spl that made we wonder if maybe he goes higher at race pace, and maybe there is a useful clue there that will help him go faster. When I looked at a race video of myself my spl was higher than at cruising pace and there were several glaring problems with my stroke. It gave me things to work on.
Lindsay....God forbid I bring up another TI strategy I support, but what the heck. In warm up, warm down and at race pace I try and maintain the exact stroke count (based on 200 race pace which is 10 per lap yds)....
You'll certainly get no argument from me on that. Perhaps rtodd holds his 14 spl in his races, it was just the way that he qualified the circumstances of his 14 spl that made we wonder if maybe he goes higher at race pace, and maybe there is a useful clue there that will help him go faster. When I looked at a race video of myself my spl was higher than at cruising pace and there were several glaring problems with my stroke. It gave me things to work on.
