I finally got some video to post for feedback on my Breaststroke; (must be breaststroke video day today). Many of you have offered me breaststroke workouts advice to me on another thread, and I have also tried to follow all your related feedback to others and incorporate it. Here is my best shot:
www.youtube.com/.../NhsXEoPiuQg&rel=1
For background, I swim a 35 second 50SCY and a 1:15 100SCY, trying to make a 32 sec 50 and a 1:10 sec 100 to qualify for Nationals in 40-44 category.
Thanks for any and all help!!
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I finally got some video to post for feedback on my Breaststroke; (must be breaststroke video day today). Many of you have offered me breaststroke workouts advice to me on another thread, and I have also tried to follow all your related feedback to others and incorporate it. Here is my best shot:
www.youtube.com/.../NhsXEoPiuQg&rel=1
For background, I swim a 35 second 50SCY and a 1:15 100SCY, trying to make a 32 sec 50 and a 1:10 sec 100 to qualify for Nationals in 40-44 category.
Thanks for any and all help!!
I just wanted to post an update, as I swam a meet this past weekend.
My 50 BR dropped from a 35.45 (November '07) to a 32.87 ( over 2 1/2 seconds, but unfortunately I'm still .61 seconds away from a NQT) Still, I was pleased!
My 100BR dropped from a 115.82 to a 113.28 (over 2 1/2 seconds), I would have thought this would drop more, but the meet didn't have a warm up pool and I essentially sat for an hour after warm up before swimming this event -then hit a wall on the second 50. Does anyone else have this problem and what do you do? I considered entering an earlier event, simply to swim it warm up speed but thought this might not be acceptable?
I also swam the 200 BR (first time), for kicks, to get an initial time. I ended up with 254.13 and a better feel for pacing and how to attack it the next time. I guess it's clear from all 3 times that I need to work on my endurance and pacing. I also need to work on my turns.
My son counted my strokes for me, and I'm averaging 9-10 per length when I'm sprinting. I also got some feedback that my stroke-cycle was too fast; so I'm thinking I need to work on reducing my strokes per length and then try to maintain the low stroke count but increase my speed - comments welcome!
I wanted to thank everyone for posting your feedback on my video - I made some major stroke overhauls from your suggestions. Not only does my stroke feel better, but as many of you like to say, "the clock doesn't lie!" Thanks!
I finally got some video to post for feedback on my Breaststroke; (must be breaststroke video day today). Many of you have offered me breaststroke workouts advice to me on another thread, and I have also tried to follow all your related feedback to others and incorporate it. Here is my best shot:
www.youtube.com/.../NhsXEoPiuQg&rel=1
For background, I swim a 35 second 50SCY and a 1:15 100SCY, trying to make a 32 sec 50 and a 1:10 sec 100 to qualify for Nationals in 40-44 category.
Thanks for any and all help!!
I just wanted to post an update, as I swam a meet this past weekend.
My 50 BR dropped from a 35.45 (November '07) to a 32.87 ( over 2 1/2 seconds, but unfortunately I'm still .61 seconds away from a NQT) Still, I was pleased!
My 100BR dropped from a 115.82 to a 113.28 (over 2 1/2 seconds), I would have thought this would drop more, but the meet didn't have a warm up pool and I essentially sat for an hour after warm up before swimming this event -then hit a wall on the second 50. Does anyone else have this problem and what do you do? I considered entering an earlier event, simply to swim it warm up speed but thought this might not be acceptable?
I also swam the 200 BR (first time), for kicks, to get an initial time. I ended up with 254.13 and a better feel for pacing and how to attack it the next time. I guess it's clear from all 3 times that I need to work on my endurance and pacing. I also need to work on my turns.
My son counted my strokes for me, and I'm averaging 9-10 per length when I'm sprinting. I also got some feedback that my stroke-cycle was too fast; so I'm thinking I need to work on reducing my strokes per length and then try to maintain the low stroke count but increase my speed - comments welcome!
I wanted to thank everyone for posting your feedback on my video - I made some major stroke overhauls from your suggestions. Not only does my stroke feel better, but as many of you like to say, "the clock doesn't lie!" Thanks!