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.
SPL;
I am measuring each time my left hand enters. Yesterday I was consistently 12 left hand entries across a 100ft pool, so that converts to about 9 left hand entries per 25 yards or in correct terms 18 total strokes per 25yds. That was at a 1:10 100yd pace and I was surfacing without any SDK. I will measure today at a 50yd pace to see what it is.
From what P. Smith posted,
Typically for a 50 I'll move up to about 15-16, 100 is in the 12-13 range and 200+ 10-11. I try and maintain the 200+ spl in warm up, warm down and on most aerobic based sets.
So I am taking significantly more strokes than Paul and we have similar reaches. Wow, that does not sound good.
In my last 100 I split (don't laugh),
29.69 - 34.31
This must show either problems with strength endurance, technique or both.
I'm reading this thread (and other similar ones where not only SPL but also speeds for specific courses -LCY-LCM-SCY-SCM are mentioned) with a lot of interest, however I have noticed that all the numbers mentioned do not really mean anything (even after mentally converting LC to SC or v.v. or Y to M or v.v.) if the writer's age (or age group) is not clear.
When someone speaks about 27.50 in a 50 this could be "fantastic" for an old geezer like me (60-64) or extremely slow for a 24 y/o ex-OLympian (OK, ex-Olympian not from the US but from Burundi, maybe).
Or is it politically un-C... to mention (or ask about) ages? Please remember, not only am I a very recent "joiner" but also that I only started lurking one day before I decided that there were enough crazy and funny people in these fora to make joining "fun". Therefore please excuse if I'm :dedhorse:
Cheers
welcome to the forum!!
Just chime in and ask if you have specific questions. It is best to do this as the forum is progressing. Not everybody includes every detail. This thread morphed, so Paul Smith opened a more specific thread on the topic of SPL.
