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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Lots and lots of things for this season:
1. Get my shoulder healthy enough to do that 8-mile Boston swim next summer. To that end I'm planning to...
a. work on technique
b. do lots of rotator cuff exercises
c. strengthen my core muscles
2. Lift weights consistently. (This one's hard, as I'm not a huge fan of the gym, and I haven't been consistent about this since I was 15 and forced to do it.)
3. Actually train for a half-marathon (run) at the end of January. For my first one last April, my running was incredibly inconsistent and my longest run prior to the race was an 8.5 miler. Sure enough, at mile 10, things began to go downhill and FAST. I still managed a 2:12 though. So this time around, I'm going to actually train properly, and I'm hoping to finish around the 2-hour mark.
I might enter a few meets here and there, but I don't really have any specific goals in mind. I generally leave the freestyle for open-water season, so I use the short-course seasons to race butterfly/***/IM. (I do enough backstroke only to get me through the IMs and no more.)
We should remember to resurrect this thread at the end of the season and see how everyone fared with their goals.
Lots and lots of things for this season:
1. Get my shoulder healthy enough to do that 8-mile Boston swim next summer. To that end I'm planning to...
a. work on technique
b. do lots of rotator cuff exercises
c. strengthen my core muscles
2. Lift weights consistently. (This one's hard, as I'm not a huge fan of the gym, and I haven't been consistent about this since I was 15 and forced to do it.)
3. Actually train for a half-marathon (run) at the end of January. For my first one last April, my running was incredibly inconsistent and my longest run prior to the race was an 8.5 miler. Sure enough, at mile 10, things began to go downhill and FAST. I still managed a 2:12 though. So this time around, I'm going to actually train properly, and I'm hoping to finish around the 2-hour mark.
I might enter a few meets here and there, but I don't really have any specific goals in mind. I generally leave the freestyle for open-water season, so I use the short-course seasons to race butterfly/***/IM. (I do enough backstroke only to get me through the IMs and no more.)
We should remember to resurrect this thread at the end of the season and see how everyone fared with their goals.
