Hi, Im currently I freshman in highschool swimming at 1:07 100 ***. I need to drop one more second in order to make it to state with an auto cut. Does anyone have any advice on what i should concentrate on in practice?
Andrew,
I was in a similar situation my freshman year in high school. I swam a 1:08 at the end of my freshman year. I was in California and was trying to qualify for our valley meet, and did not make it.
My attempt to get faster was to join the swim club for my sophmore year. We swam about 8000 yards per day on average. My time dropped from 1:08 to 1:06 in the 100 ***. Not much. But my 200 IM time dropped from 2:16 to 2:06 and my 500 time at mid season (no taper) was 5:20.
If you want to be a sprint breaststroker, I would advise swimming some fast breaststoke. You should be doing somewhere between 300-600 yards of sprint sets 3-4 times per week. The sprint sets should be distances of 25 yards on something like the 1:15 or 50 yard repeats with 3 minutes rest (during the rest you can do an easy 50).
Andrew,
I was in a similar situation my freshman year in high school. I swam a 1:08 at the end of my freshman year. I was in California and was trying to qualify for our valley meet, and did not make it.
My attempt to get faster was to join the swim club for my sophmore year. We swam about 8000 yards per day on average. My time dropped from 1:08 to 1:06 in the 100 ***. Not much. But my 200 IM time dropped from 2:16 to 2:06 and my 500 time at mid season (no taper) was 5:20.
If you want to be a sprint breaststroker, I would advise swimming some fast breaststoke. You should be doing somewhere between 300-600 yards of sprint sets 3-4 times per week. The sprint sets should be distances of 25 yards on something like the 1:15 or 50 yard repeats with 3 minutes rest (during the rest you can do an easy 50).
