Just wondering what folks are working on in their training or to prepare for meets this upcoming SCY season. I'm always interested in what people are doing and why.
For me, in an ideal world, I intend to work on:
improving my SDKs off turns
improving my free and *** technique
doing more strength and core work
increasing DPS
doing more race pace work throughout the season
swimming a 100 fly in SCY and SCM for the first time
taking some time off my 100 IM; I've been stuck in a rut
doing a fast 100 back this year; didn't get around to it last year
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I hope to improve my SDK,
in practice (from a dive) I want to regularly go under
25 sec for 50 yard SDK's &
11 sec for 25 yard SDK's
I'm training to take more SDK's off each wall in my races
Got to make SDKs a habit in practice.
my race plans are to
take _____ SDKs off each wall in _______ event
05 - 07 in the 100 fr
10 - 12 in the 100 bk
08 - 10 in the 100 fl
06 - 08 in the 050 fr
12 - 13 in the 050 bk
08 - 10 in the 050 fl
04 - 06 in the 200 fr (if I swim it)
On free I plan to do most SDK's on my back
then roll over to my belly
So far I've noticed it really helps in practice.
several times in 100's I've turned even with folks at the 50 then
came up a ahead when I break out
Ande Rasmussen
I am trying to do the same, it is discouraging though. The other day we were swimming SCM and I did a set of 8 X 100 backstroke descend 1-4. On the first set, I worked on SDK and took 2-6 off of each wall (less as the swim went on). I went a 1:07.0. The next set of 4, I did no SDK on the fast one and went 1:05.5. It is hard to work on something that is making me slower. Any advice? Please remember this was SCM not LCM so I had 3 turns. Trying to figure this out for my SCM meet in November.
I hope to improve my SDK,
in practice (from a dive) I want to regularly go under
25 sec for 50 yard SDK's &
11 sec for 25 yard SDK's
I'm training to take more SDK's off each wall in my races
Got to make SDKs a habit in practice.
my race plans are to
take _____ SDKs off each wall in _______ event
05 - 07 in the 100 fr
10 - 12 in the 100 bk
08 - 10 in the 100 fl
06 - 08 in the 050 fr
12 - 13 in the 050 bk
08 - 10 in the 050 fl
04 - 06 in the 200 fr (if I swim it)
On free I plan to do most SDK's on my back
then roll over to my belly
So far I've noticed it really helps in practice.
several times in 100's I've turned even with folks at the 50 then
came up a ahead when I break out
Ande Rasmussen
I am trying to do the same, it is discouraging though. The other day we were swimming SCM and I did a set of 8 X 100 backstroke descend 1-4. On the first set, I worked on SDK and took 2-6 off of each wall (less as the swim went on). I went a 1:07.0. The next set of 4, I did no SDK on the fast one and went 1:05.5. It is hard to work on something that is making me slower. Any advice? Please remember this was SCM not LCM so I had 3 turns. Trying to figure this out for my SCM meet in November.
