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.
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So I worked on incorporating the single dolphin kick with the arm pull, and it fits in nicely. One of my big concerns is my inability to butterfly. I don't think the other competitors would appreciate me adding a shark to the pool for motivation. Two 25s with rest in between just kill me. I think my biggest problem is the lack of doing two kicks per stroke, which I used to be able to do. By the end, I am simply lunging out of the water to try to move forward, and my legs are not pushing at that point. So I incorporated the single arm fly to try to coordinate and practice the kick with the stroke. I would like to do the 50 fly at the meet, but I would need to be able to complete it first. When I swam butterfly in my teens, I had one speed for the hundred, which was the speed needed to complete the race.
So I worked on incorporating the single dolphin kick with the arm pull, and it fits in nicely. One of my big concerns is my inability to butterfly. I don't think the other competitors would appreciate me adding a shark to the pool for motivation. Two 25s with rest in between just kill me. I think my biggest problem is the lack of doing two kicks per stroke, which I used to be able to do. By the end, I am simply lunging out of the water to try to move forward, and my legs are not pushing at that point. So I incorporated the single arm fly to try to coordinate and practice the kick with the stroke. I would like to do the 50 fly at the meet, but I would need to be able to complete it first. When I swam butterfly in my teens, I had one speed for the hundred, which was the speed needed to complete the race.
