Have any of you made huge improvments in your swimming within the past couple of years, or since beginning swimming? If so, what were the improvments you made? What were you doing in training in order to make these improvments?
Have any of you made large improvments recently?
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I improved my 200m free time by six seconds and my 50m free time by 1:15 seconds this year.
I put it down to (finally) getting to the gym three times a week and working on strength training. Going to the gym is really important.
It is also because I have trained almost exclusively for my focus events: 50m, 100m, 200m free. I train for one event every time I train. So a typical training session might be a 500m warm up followed by 6 x 200m descend. On that last 200m I aim to go as fast or faster than my fastest time ever. Obviously it is not possible all time but the intent must be there.
Finally, I have made some improvements on my turns and stroke. I am working on integrating my kick into my stroke and feeling more relaxed in the water.
I improved my 200m free time by six seconds and my 50m free time by 1:15 seconds this year.
I put it down to (finally) getting to the gym three times a week and working on strength training. Going to the gym is really important.
It is also because I have trained almost exclusively for my focus events: 50m, 100m, 200m free. I train for one event every time I train. So a typical training session might be a 500m warm up followed by 6 x 200m descend. On that last 200m I aim to go as fast or faster than my fastest time ever. Obviously it is not possible all time but the intent must be there.
Finally, I have made some improvements on my turns and stroke. I am working on integrating my kick into my stroke and feeling more relaxed in the water.
