Hey, just here to ask a few questions before my swim meet tonight, I've noticed something. When I went my recent best time this past week, my first 50 was completely relaxed and my closing 50 was strained. I went 8 seconds slower during the second 50.
Is it possible that slowing down my stroke and making myself move through the water cleaner, more of a streamline?
I've been trying it in practice but I'm really having troubles finding the sweet spot in terms of stroke count to pull strength, and how I should position myself to produce the least drag.
I would really appreciate some help with this guys, I want to drop my time. :)
For reference, I currently go a 1:09.07 in my 100y Breastroke, I know it's slow but i'm still in highschool. My 50y Breaststroke is roughly a 30 flat, I have yet to break that mark.
My father is the one that pointed this out, I raced someone that went a 1:07 while I was in the pool and he stroked much less than me, I was turning over at a painful rate and he was almost relaxed.
Tell me, how do I fix this? Thanks a lot guys, I love this forum. :)
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I'm 50 and I race the 100 ***. The splits on my recent 100 SCM race were 36.73 and 40.25. I was very happy with those splits. In the same meet I swam a very flawed 50 *** in 34.14. So the 1st 50 of my 100 was 2.5 secs slower than my 50.
If you are a 30 sec SCY 50 guy - You might aim for 32.5/36 for a 1:08.5. I think the front 50 of a 100 *** is faster than the front 50 of 100 free because of the pullout from a dive. Resist the urge to blast off the first 50. You'll feel fast - but at the 50 you'll feel the fatigue it hurts from there. Hold back a bit on the 1st 25. For me - I aimed for a perceived 80% effort. You'll find that when you're not trashed your glide will be better and you'll have some stroke power at the end.
BTW - I think the 50 is almost different event completely. The 50 is a race with very fast hands and almost no glide at all. You cannot swim the 100 that way.
I made a mistake last year and swam a 100 SCY with a 31+/37 splits. The 2nd 50 was awful.
Last year my son - a high school senior - swam a 58.99 100 *** with 27.96/31.03 splits.
That's awesome! Give your son a big congratulations from me, sub minute B-strokes are an awesome thing to achieve, as well as to see.
I didn't try much new last night because I was worried it would shake up my times too much but I did take a bit of a break. I spent a longer time on walls last night and just generally took my stroke easy because I got the rather unsettling news that I was swimming the anchoring leg in the 400y freestyle relay.
I did a few things last night, my Breaststroke was a 1:08 mid, probably a 1:08.6~ish but what I was happy with was my Freestyle performance. I am by NO stretch a good freestyler and I managed to get two best times last night.
I went a 23.36 in my 50y and a 57.46 in my 100y, this was quite an amazing performance considering my old best for the 50y was a 29.12 and my old best for the 100y was a 1:05.67. I'm happy, to say the least.
Thanks for the advice on practice technique, I'll talk to my coach about how to implement these, perhaps stroke a few sets with reasonable intervals.
I didn't really give gliding longer a chance last night as the whole stroke was laxx'd but I'd still say a 1:08.6 is pretty decent in terms of performance considering my best is about .4 below that.
Wish me luck tonight in practice, I'll report back with how my stroke is feeling.
I'm 50 and I race the 100 ***. The splits on my recent 100 SCM race were 36.73 and 40.25. I was very happy with those splits. In the same meet I swam a very flawed 50 *** in 34.14. So the 1st 50 of my 100 was 2.5 secs slower than my 50.
If you are a 30 sec SCY 50 guy - You might aim for 32.5/36 for a 1:08.5. I think the front 50 of a 100 *** is faster than the front 50 of 100 free because of the pullout from a dive. Resist the urge to blast off the first 50. You'll feel fast - but at the 50 you'll feel the fatigue it hurts from there. Hold back a bit on the 1st 25. For me - I aimed for a perceived 80% effort. You'll find that when you're not trashed your glide will be better and you'll have some stroke power at the end.
BTW - I think the 50 is almost different event completely. The 50 is a race with very fast hands and almost no glide at all. You cannot swim the 100 that way.
I made a mistake last year and swam a 100 SCY with a 31+/37 splits. The 2nd 50 was awful.
Last year my son - a high school senior - swam a 58.99 100 *** with 27.96/31.03 splits.
That's awesome! Give your son a big congratulations from me, sub minute B-strokes are an awesome thing to achieve, as well as to see.
I didn't try much new last night because I was worried it would shake up my times too much but I did take a bit of a break. I spent a longer time on walls last night and just generally took my stroke easy because I got the rather unsettling news that I was swimming the anchoring leg in the 400y freestyle relay.
I did a few things last night, my Breaststroke was a 1:08 mid, probably a 1:08.6~ish but what I was happy with was my Freestyle performance. I am by NO stretch a good freestyler and I managed to get two best times last night.
I went a 23.36 in my 50y and a 57.46 in my 100y, this was quite an amazing performance considering my old best for the 50y was a 29.12 and my old best for the 100y was a 1:05.67. I'm happy, to say the least.
Thanks for the advice on practice technique, I'll talk to my coach about how to implement these, perhaps stroke a few sets with reasonable intervals.
I didn't really give gliding longer a chance last night as the whole stroke was laxx'd but I'd still say a 1:08.6 is pretty decent in terms of performance considering my best is about .4 below that.
Wish me luck tonight in practice, I'll report back with how my stroke is feeling.
