Foreward: My 50 was a good time for me, my 200 time I have actually beat in practice from a push. Criticism on my 50, starts and turns would probably be most beneficial to me, but I am interested to get feedback on some race pace video. These videos are from the DAM SCM meet yesterday.
My times are annotated in the video, but here they are for reference.
50: 27.71
200: 33.48/36.18/36.78/33.77 1:09.66/1:10.55 2:20.21
YouTube- Mike 50 free DAM SCM 2009
YouTube- Mike 200 free DAM SCM 2009
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I'd like to play devil's advocate on the high turnover, or much higher turnover issue on the 50m.
Our client here masters the Distance Per Stroke variable. That's his weapon.
14 strokes to go, 18 to come back.
It's the 18 strokes to come back that raised my attention. Not sure if our client can really follow you guys advices of increasing turnover by a lot, without loosing more water.
Increasing the turnover requires the fitness to support this higher turnover without loosing water. 18 strokes that's already a lot of strokes on a 25. Increase the turnover by a lot and you'll see what's going to happen. This 18 will become 20 or 21.
Few numbers (averages will do):
27.71 seconds / 32 strokes gives you a turnover of 69.28 SPM
Turn this 69.28 into 72 (which is not a **much** higher turnover but just a reasonably higher turnover) and you're already down to 26.66
Increase it up to 74 and you're now down to 25.94
Increase it up to 80 and you're down to 24 flat
Now. Cut a stroke and keep 69 and you're down to 26.9
31 strokes / 71 RPM = 25.83
Keep 31 strokes and increase the turnover by **much**, say up to 86 and
you're down to under 21.64 (which was once Popov's world record).
I agree that Q should increase his turnover, but not at the cost of DPS. He should not sacrifice a single stroke per length in this equation in my opinion.
I'd like to play devil's advocate on the high turnover, or much higher turnover issue on the 50m.
Our client here masters the Distance Per Stroke variable. That's his weapon.
14 strokes to go, 18 to come back.
It's the 18 strokes to come back that raised my attention. Not sure if our client can really follow you guys advices of increasing turnover by a lot, without loosing more water.
Increasing the turnover requires the fitness to support this higher turnover without loosing water. 18 strokes that's already a lot of strokes on a 25. Increase the turnover by a lot and you'll see what's going to happen. This 18 will become 20 or 21.
Few numbers (averages will do):
27.71 seconds / 32 strokes gives you a turnover of 69.28 SPM
Turn this 69.28 into 72 (which is not a **much** higher turnover but just a reasonably higher turnover) and you're already down to 26.66
Increase it up to 74 and you're now down to 25.94
Increase it up to 80 and you're down to 24 flat
Now. Cut a stroke and keep 69 and you're down to 26.9
31 strokes / 71 RPM = 25.83
Keep 31 strokes and increase the turnover by **much**, say up to 86 and
you're down to under 21.64 (which was once Popov's world record).
I agree that Q should increase his turnover, but not at the cost of DPS. He should not sacrifice a single stroke per length in this equation in my opinion.
