I'm a 21 year old male, 5'8, around 155 lbs, with 7-8% body fat. I've been swimming now for about 1 year total. My background is in cross country, basketball, and track. I've dropped my times quite a bit in a year;
50 free from 28 high to 26.69
100 free from 1:10 to 1:00.89
200 free from 2:24 to 2:16
500 free from 7:00 to 6:19
I'm from Missouri and I've got one more semester at a community college to get my associates degree, then I plan on transferring to Drury Univesity or Missouri State. I really want to walk on to one of their teams and I figure my best choice is to go the distance route, the 500 and up to have a chance at making one of these teams. Right now I'm swimming 30,000yds/m a week and doing dryland work (weights) 3x a week. My stroke is very solid, keeping me injury free (knock on wood), and I figure I can get up to around 50,000+ yds a week by the start of summer and train like a madman this summer before fall semester. I can swim with a masters team once a week without having to pay a monthly fee and the rest of my training is solo. My test meet will be the end of July, Show-me-State games in Columbia. Any words of advice?
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Drurys record times are a little slower than big 10 approx 10 seconds slower for the 500. But what I did not include in my post above is that you should not be putting mileage on and muscle memory learning bad swim habits.
What I was referring to is the 500 and longer swimming is very hard and unless you can swim faster times for the 50 and 100 you will not be a distance swimmer. You should work on getting 50, 100 and 200 times down to a faster time than you are doing now then decide what your swiming forte' is.
You should be working with a coach now that can help you attain faster times.
It sound like you are fit by doing other sports and have lots of time to do this to get to the level that you need to obtain. I as a coach would welcome someone like you who has desire to swim on a team.
Drurys record times are a little slower than big 10 approx 10 seconds slower for the 500. But what I did not include in my post above is that you should not be putting mileage on and muscle memory learning bad swim habits.
What I was referring to is the 500 and longer swimming is very hard and unless you can swim faster times for the 50 and 100 you will not be a distance swimmer. You should work on getting 50, 100 and 200 times down to a faster time than you are doing now then decide what your swiming forte' is.
You should be working with a coach now that can help you attain faster times.
It sound like you are fit by doing other sports and have lots of time to do this to get to the level that you need to obtain. I as a coach would welcome someone like you who has desire to swim on a team.
