Any personal stories of improvment

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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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  • SCY 2007 to SCY 2008 50 bk went from 25.75 to 24.41 100 IM went from 55.48 to 53.70 50 fr went from 22.30 to 21.48 50 fly went from 23.93 to 23.20 you can follow every practice from: 2007 South Central Zone Championships Saturday March 24, 2007 on www.usms.org/.../showthread.php where I swam in the 2007 SCY Zone Meet to: USMS SCY Nats Friday, May 2, 2008 www.usms.org/.../showthread.php Differences: 1) did more weight training, actually got stronger, 2) did more speed training, actually got faster, 3) I was preparing for nationals in my home pool, I didn't want to suck & 4) 2007 Wore a FS II, 2008 wore a FS PRO Now I'm training to see if I can improve on my 2008 SCY times in 2009 1) I'll do more speed training 2) more strength training 3) work on my SDK & 4) wear a blue seventy nero comp You can follow my journey at: andesswimmingblog.blogspot.com you might enjoy this thread What do YOU need to do to have a major swimming breakthrough? Amy, What's your story?
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  • SCY 2007 to SCY 2008 50 bk went from 25.75 to 24.41 100 IM went from 55.48 to 53.70 50 fr went from 22.30 to 21.48 50 fly went from 23.93 to 23.20 you can follow every practice from: 2007 South Central Zone Championships Saturday March 24, 2007 on www.usms.org/.../showthread.php where I swam in the 2007 SCY Zone Meet to: USMS SCY Nats Friday, May 2, 2008 www.usms.org/.../showthread.php Differences: 1) did more weight training, actually got stronger, 2) did more speed training, actually got faster, 3) I was preparing for nationals in my home pool, I didn't want to suck & 4) 2007 Wore a FS II, 2008 wore a FS PRO Now I'm training to see if I can improve on my 2008 SCY times in 2009 1) I'll do more speed training 2) more strength training 3) work on my SDK & 4) wear a blue seventy nero comp You can follow my journey at: andesswimmingblog.blogspot.com you might enjoy this thread What do YOU need to do to have a major swimming breakthrough? Amy, What's your story?
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