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'm working on making my final 15 months in the 30-34 age group good ones, to prove to people that being at the end of the age group doesn't mean you should just roll over and let the young'ins win everything.
I just want to know if anyone's working on Jeff's roll over turn for their IM ... LOL.
I contemplated adding that to my list, but I can't seem to flip very well if it's my right hand that hits the wall.
I'm working on making my final 15 months in the 30-34 age group good ones, to prove to people that being at the end of the age group doesn't mean you should just roll over and let the young'ins win everything.
Are you the same Jeff Commings that recently set some USMS breaststroke records? I don't think anybody is going to be accusing you of rolling over!
Training over an entire 20+ week season (SCM) which will include:
-Building a new engine – lots of early-season endurance, up to 40K yards per week
-New, sleeker stock body – lose about 30 pounds to reduce drag
-Add some horsepower to the engine – lots of strength training
-Front and rear end alignment – drills to improve stroke technique and efficiency
-New shock absorbers – add flexibility training to increase ROM and save the shoulders
-Short track sprints – lots of mid- and late-season sprint work and race pace sets
-Work on race day specifics – extra time on starts, turns, SDK, pullouts, and streamlining
Boogity, boogity, boogity…Gotta love NASCAR if you’re in the south:bouncing:
Mark
I just completed my 10k postal swim Friday (3:13:37, 7:50 better than two years ago - yeah!). I still have the 3000 and 6000 yd postals to complete this fall, so that will be my focus. I'd like to break 45:00 in the 3000 and get close to 1:30:00 in the 6000. I did 46:13 and 1:36:45, respectively, in 2005.
Skip Montanaro
And if Sam and I can pull it off take down a couple of SCM relay WR's at ASU in November!
Man, now you broadcast to the whole community. Talk about being thrown under the bus!
It took six months for me to get it legal and correct. Mostly, breath control was the problem. You're not breathing for at least six seconds in the middle of a race.
If you're serious about doing it, there's no reason to work on it. Watch video tapes, have someone work with you. You have eight months until Austin!
I might do it. I've been in a rut in my 100 IM. I think I should be about 2 seconds faster. I've been working on improving the evilstroke leg. But a fast turn would help too. I think I can handle the air deprivation because of my underwater SDK work, but getting it legal is another thing. What is the exact rule for the head/shoulder position?
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
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 might do it. I've been in a rut in my 100 IM. I think I should be about 2 seconds faster. I've been working on improving the evilstroke leg. But a fast turn would help too. I think I can handle the air deprivation because of my underwater SDK work, but getting it legal is another thing. What is the exact rule for the head/shoulder position?
Fort-
You need to finish the Back leg legally (shoulder not past 90 degrees) and push off on the *** leg "toward the ***"(past 90 degrees). Like most other turns, what you do in between the legal finish and the legal push is up to you.
Every time I work on the new turn, it works ok for a while, then falls apart:drown:. Like you, it only works if I land on the correct hand. Haven't been brave enough to try it in a meet yet. Maybe this season.
My primary goals for SCM and SCY are the same....
try and FINALLY break 22min in the mile...
if I have a 2nd goal it would be to work on improving the evil stroke (at least to me) BUTTERFLY!!!!! AUGH...I figure that if I am going to pretend to be a wanna be IM'er then I better learn that stroke without :drown:! Someone also said to me at one time or another that the best way to improve the mile is to work on sprinting BUT sprinting and I just don't get along...:notworking: still I will be doing my 4x125/10x100 and any various other sets that I can come up with to improve the sprinting.
