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
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.
Sam:
Welcome to the world of SDK! I think it takes some serious time to learn and master SDKs. I never did SDKs in age group swimming and didn't my first year of masters either. Then, from watching and reading, I just decided it was a logical path to time drops. (Swimming underwater also compensates for my height disadvantage.) I've been working at it pretty diligently for 8 months or so. Much improved, especially on starts, but I still need to work on SDKs off the walls. I'm definitely not at 10-12 on each turn. 12?! SDKs just take practice, practice, practice and a strong core.
Plus, I love the monofin for SDKs. Ande doesn't, and so he is not my identical evil twin. ;)
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.
Sam:
Welcome to the world of SDK! I think it takes some serious time to learn and master SDKs. I never did SDKs in age group swimming and didn't my first year of masters either. Then, from watching and reading, I just decided it was a logical path to time drops. (Swimming underwater also compensates for my height disadvantage.) I've been working at it pretty diligently for 8 months or so. Much improved, especially on starts, but I still need to work on SDKs off the walls. I'm definitely not at 10-12 on each turn. 12?! SDKs just take practice, practice, practice and a strong core.
Plus, I love the monofin for SDKs. Ande doesn't, and so he is not my identical evil twin. ;)
