Looking to get an idea of where I should be with regards to SPL (stroke per length) on my 50m sprints. Right now I'm at 17/23 for 50m but I know I need to get that down. I'm thinking that getting it down to about 14/18 without a reduction in speed would be optimum as I'm 6'3" with about a 6'6" wingspan. Does that stroke count sound reasonable?
Now how to do that?
Here's what I think I need to work on.
1) stronger kick
2) better underwater work at the start and turn
3) Work on becoming longer in the water, both stroke and body position.
4) swim downhill. I've been reviewing my 50m race from earlier this month and I'm still swimming too much uphill.
Any advice on drills would be helpful.
Paul
lookin good there!! :)
I guess with sprinting you have a fine line to thread between SPL and your turn over rate. Do you do any VO2 type sets (10x25 on .30 and 4 x50 on 60) where you concentrate on maintaining a consistent stroke and breath count for all repeats?
Yeah, we do those occasionally in practice. I'm just looking for ways to refine my stroke. Guess I need to actually CON-CEN-TRATE on emphasizing proper technique in practice instead of just trying to survive the set without :drown:. One thing I am going to do is sit down with my team's coach and plan some workouts. The only problem is that we have a fairly large team but not a lot of the team competes. So it's difficult to do aynthing out of the ordinary during a team workout. So anything really specialized will have to be swum solo during lap swim UGH.
Paul
lookin good there!! :)
I guess with sprinting you have a fine line to thread between SPL and your turn over rate. Do you do any VO2 type sets (10x25 on .30 and 4 x50 on 60) where you concentrate on maintaining a consistent stroke and breath count for all repeats?
Yeah, we do those occasionally in practice. I'm just looking for ways to refine my stroke. Guess I need to actually CON-CEN-TRATE on emphasizing proper technique in practice instead of just trying to survive the set without :drown:. One thing I am going to do is sit down with my team's coach and plan some workouts. The only problem is that we have a fairly large team but not a lot of the team competes. So it's difficult to do aynthing out of the ordinary during a team workout. So anything really specialized will have to be swum solo during lap swim UGH.
Paul
