Questions for SCY:
1. How many breaths down after the dive? Or do you simply hold your breath?
2. If you hold your breath, do you blow it all out quickly before you breath or empty your lungs slowly?
3. Should you have a pattern for breathing or simply grit your teeth and gut it out?
4. (unrelated to breathing). Negative split--how important is it in this race? Should it be emphasized?
99% of swimmers will tell you NOT to negative split a 100. However, it works for me.
The concept I use is to "throttle back" the first 50, than build quickly from there.
I am a middle distance swimmer and find that negative splitting or even splitting works for me in the 500/400 free. If I go out too fast, it's over.
But it also works for me in the 100. The only USMS national championship I have won was in the 100 free in Federal Way on '07. The splits were 27.12 and 27.19. At this years LC Nats in Indianapolis I tried to swim the 100 by going hard the entire way. I got into acidosis with about 20 meters to go and faded to third. I wouldn't have won the race, but I certainly should have gotten second had I swum it as a negative split.
I also do not swim the 50 all out from the get go. I swim it as a build and have had good success.
This will probably not work for most people but it does for me.
99% of swimmers will tell you NOT to negative split a 100. However, it works for me.
The concept I use is to "throttle back" the first 50, than build quickly from there.
I am a middle distance swimmer and find that negative splitting or even splitting works for me in the 500/400 free. If I go out too fast, it's over.
But it also works for me in the 100. The only USMS national championship I have won was in the 100 free in Federal Way on '07. The splits were 27.12 and 27.19. At this years LC Nats in Indianapolis I tried to swim the 100 by going hard the entire way. I got into acidosis with about 20 meters to go and faded to third. I wouldn't have won the race, but I certainly should have gotten second had I swum it as a negative split.
I also do not swim the 50 all out from the get go. I swim it as a build and have had good success.
This will probably not work for most people but it does for me.
