So I am going to do a meet in November. The first meet in 17 years. A little about me; Swam summer league for 6 years as a kid, but never did year-round training. Lifted a fair amount of weights for the past decade and a half, but mostly been a mix of fat and muscle. Current stats are: 35 years old, 5’9” (that doesn’t actually change) 250 lbs, 400 lb squat and 300 lb bench. Fairly brick shaped. Training for the past month has been anywhere from 1000 to 1600 yds, mostly 12-1400 range. Most freestyle, bit of ***, less fly, a 50 of backstroke. The quandary that I face is that I know I am going to get my clock cleaned, but I would like to get some base times for performance measurement. I have trouble increasing yardage right now, because I know I also need to put time in at speed to train that effectively as well. My gut feeling is that the next six weeks should be more about fast training to maximize ability for short swims. I am looking at the 50 fly, ***, freestyle, and maybe throw in a 100 IM for giggles. At this point and time, I have no interest in ever being a distance swimmer. I have also put some effort into the sdk, between info here and seeing it’s effectiveness in the Olympics. I do remember the backstroker in Seoul cranking with his kick. I feel like my conditioning should improve fairly rapidly with speed work simply because it is so low at this point. But I will accept suggestions. By the way, I am unaffiliated, so practicing dives at the local 24 hour fitness occurs when no one else is around.
In breaststroke the downward dolphin kick is allowed after the initiation of the pulldown and before the breaststroke kick.Most people do it during the pulldown.I recommend as you do the pull down letting a body undulation follow your hands.
As to the back to BR turn,you must finish each section of the IM according to the finishing rules of that stroke which in BK means you must touch with your hands,so your old turn will be legal. You can't turn over before the wall and flip(like is now legal during BK to BK turns)
In breaststroke the downward dolphin kick is allowed after the initiation of the pulldown and before the breaststroke kick.Most people do it during the pulldown.I recommend as you do the pull down letting a body undulation follow your hands.
As to the back to BR turn,you must finish each section of the IM according to the finishing rules of that stroke which in BK means you must touch with your hands,so your old turn will be legal. You can't turn over before the wall and flip(like is now legal during BK to BK turns)
