So I am new to Masters. Swam in HS and barely in college before getting burnt out. It has been about 10 years since then. I am 32 now.
I have been practicing for about 6 weeks for 3-4 evenings a week, and about 3000-3500 yrds per workout.
My high school personal best in the 50Y Free was 21.53. After only 2 weeks of workout, I did about 27-ish and in my recent meet this weekend, I went 25.41, so I have already improved somewhat, but I think getting down to 21s may take some time.
So I was just curious if anyone else had a similar story, how long did it take to get back to your HS times, if it was even possible for you? Years? Many Years?
-David
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My story is pretty different but same question, I swam like a boy for 2 years at age of 9-11 before to quit.
Last year I'm come back in pool, I was in terrible bad swimming sharpe, I can't even completed a single lap(25m) in free before to be winded, otherwise in average sharpe, absolutely not overweight (6'0-1/2 for 144 lbs).
I had to completely rebuild all my strokes from the ground, and still working at it.
I'm the top guy Vs same-level swimmers but with more years of training under their belt on 25s (16.7sec 25m free wall-to-wall), but I've less endurance, so the 50s are still pretty taxing for me at free/back, a complete no-go at fly, a walk at ***, so my question is normal to have this type of (slow) start ?
Yes I'm much improved but I was expecting more, maybe too much ?.
currently I train for 50min 2 times at weeks (yes it's too little, I'll add more soon), last year used to train 3 times at weeks mostly of time for 50min.
My story is pretty different but same question, I swam like a boy for 2 years at age of 9-11 before to quit.
Last year I'm come back in pool, I was in terrible bad swimming sharpe, I can't even completed a single lap(25m) in free before to be winded, otherwise in average sharpe, absolutely not overweight (6'0-1/2 for 144 lbs).
I had to completely rebuild all my strokes from the ground, and still working at it.
I'm the top guy Vs same-level swimmers but with more years of training under their belt on 25s (16.7sec 25m free wall-to-wall), but I've less endurance, so the 50s are still pretty taxing for me at free/back, a complete no-go at fly, a walk at ***, so my question is normal to have this type of (slow) start ?
Yes I'm much improved but I was expecting more, maybe too much ?.
currently I train for 50min 2 times at weeks (yes it's too little, I'll add more soon), last year used to train 3 times at weeks mostly of time for 50min.
