I started coaching a 15 years old boy, who has not so good but decent times, I want him to be able to break at least one of his “age-group” records from our club.
Since I write his workouts, I wonder which record might be the closest one to shoot for.
Event SCM........ His time...........club´s record
50 free............30"41............25"52
100 free.......... 1'05"............ 56"75
200 free......... 2´26"16......... 2´10"20
400 free......... 05'02''68......... 4'36"95
800 free.......... 11'17"04......... 10'12"91
50 *** ..........40''23.............33"06
50 back ...........36"09 .............29"52
100 back......... 1'18"54 ..........1'03"66
200 back .........2´43"35......... 2'17"56
100 IM............ 01'15''96......... 1'04"22
200 IM............ 2'46"24........... 2'21"56
400 IM ............5´54"16.......... 5'00"03
I think I will try to make him focus on freestyle, his closest times to the record (very far BTW) seems to be the 200 free and 400 free events
What do you think?
I also want to know if his times have a "normal" relation; I mean, he probably can go faster in the 800 free from his 400 free time. And faster 200 IM from his 100 IM time.
Im use to make workouts for myself but I know how far I can push myself...
This is new for me, so Im trying to test him, 100's reps, crazy long sets, crazy hard sets, and Im looking forward to his "never done" 7000 meter workout :angel:. He seems to enjoy challenge, I need some feedback about his times and tips for training 15 years olds.
thanks
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yikes seems to be lots of negativity on the forum today.
I agree that he is pretty far from all the times, but if you have lots of big mechanical things wrong with your stroke a few seconds of gain can be achieved relatively quickly.
I would def recommend having him set goals/steps to get there so he is taking charge of his direction in swimming. Things like pwolf suggested are good places to start.
I personally would start with helping him learn feel and basic technique. I started in high school and had no concept of feel or technique... just had a little raw ability that helped me swim pretty good times. My biggest
and drops started coming with consistent focus on mechanics and consistent effort in practice.
From here you can then move onto more specific even training, but w/o the base foundation set there will always be a big limiter.
yikes seems to be lots of negativity on the forum today.
I agree that he is pretty far from all the times, but if you have lots of big mechanical things wrong with your stroke a few seconds of gain can be achieved relatively quickly.
I would def recommend having him set goals/steps to get there so he is taking charge of his direction in swimming. Things like pwolf suggested are good places to start.
I personally would start with helping him learn feel and basic technique. I started in high school and had no concept of feel or technique... just had a little raw ability that helped me swim pretty good times. My biggest
and drops started coming with consistent focus on mechanics and consistent effort in practice.
From here you can then move onto more specific even training, but w/o the base foundation set there will always be a big limiter.
