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50 BR 39.92 100BR 45.22 1:33.22 (48.00) 200 BR 45.46 1:37.60 (52.14) 2:32.09 (54.49) 3:28.12 (56.03) Hi All Here are my LCM time from zones. My 50 was a PB. The 100 was first recorded time LCM, and the 200 was 7 secs faster than my last attempt. Obvioulsy tecnique is very important, but looking at my drop off on the 200, what do you think is going on. I was told my stroke looked good on the 200. Is my conditioning bad? Should I practice more broken 2's 3x50 mod 1x AFASP a few times thru etc? I did this for SCY Zones and went from 3:07 in January to a 2:56 by April--not a bad return IMHO. Am I just a sprinter (albeit not that a fast of a sprinter) and will I not have much more joy in reducing my longer swim times? I only get 3x a week in the pool and someone told me swimming 5-6 times would get my times down...I can't devote that much time. Lastly I just bought paddles to find the slipping point in my BR pull and was happy to find only my left hand slipped a little on the insweep and only at a high pace--but not everytime. I'm still working on not "blocking out" in the water by recovering my legs before my arms have shot into streamline. Anyone have drills for this? Peter C said to work on building up speed which I am doing. Just looking for more input and ideas. I know LCM is a hard beast compared to SCY so swimming a PB on the 50 is encouraging. Thanks Rich
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    Also can I translate training for 200 FR over in terms of conditioning? Unless you do some hypoxic training sets...the 200 free and 200 *** are completely different animals. There's the element of underwater pullouts on each turn that sucks the life force out of most people. Maybe get a pull buoy and breath 3,5,7,9 for a 200 free set. 5 x 200 on a cushy interval...you'll need it: 1st 50 breathe every 3 2nd 50 ...every 5 3rd 50 ...every 7 4th 50...every 9...good luck.
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  • Former Member
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    Also can I translate training for 200 FR over in terms of conditioning? Unless you do some hypoxic training sets...the 200 free and 200 *** are completely different animals. There's the element of underwater pullouts on each turn that sucks the life force out of most people. Maybe get a pull buoy and breath 3,5,7,9 for a 200 free set. 5 x 200 on a cushy interval...you'll need it: 1st 50 breathe every 3 2nd 50 ...every 5 3rd 50 ...every 7 4th 50...every 9...good luck.
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