hey, i just wanted to ask everyone for their experience with over training and recovery.
i've put my whole heart into swimming since freshman year in high school (im a senior now), and trained as hard as i could since the spring of freshman year. at first i just swam the same practice everyday....then i started doing a lot of dryland, running, biking, and changed up my practices to faster intervals, and different strokes.
i never rested, until i realized that i get faster when i rest/taper. i realized this the summer between my sophmore and junior year. by then , however, it was too late. i broke my body down so much, that it would take a long time for me to recover. when highschool swimming started up again my junior year, i was so broken down, that i was swimming even slower than before my freshman year. i've been battling my coach trying to convince him to let me rest, and understand my situation, and he finally did.
this year, my senior year, im trying to feel strong in the water again.
im posting this on the forum to ask you guys if u know anyone who seemed like a slow swimmer for a while, then had one year where they suddenly started breaking records like crazy. i hope im not crazy, but i really think that with my body, if i get it back to full strength, i could pull off some crazy fast times. now, with this broken down body i can go a 1:10 in the 100 yard ***...and i haven't dropped anytime since my freshman year. this entire time i've been getting in so much better shape, yet dropping no time.
therefore i think once i taper, i will drop 10 seconds at least....am i crazy? or does what i think make some what sense....according to my situation.
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you probably do too much cardio/aerobic trainning, you don't need that much for 100 ***, you need more speed, so you have to do more all out speed sets with a lot of rest.
I think 10 seconds in two moths is too much to ask for, maybe you can drop 5 sec if you do the right things.
If what you have been doing isn't working, do something else, is not impossible to improve on your own as much as with a team, but you have to test things out, if you are in shape, and you are not getting faster that can only mean that either: you have to get stronger or improve your technique, there is no point on keep doing 10x100 in that case with low rest.
"taper time" is very subjective, 3 weeks of doing nothing is just stupid, you have to figure out what works best for you, in my case I just need a week and 3 or 4 swims during that week of doing sprints and drills, and I'm ready to go fast.
For now, I would sugget you to film yourself doing a 100 *** as fast as you can (like it is your final race), and then it will be very obvious what you are doing wrong, spliting? techinique? cardio? we will see.
you probably do too much cardio/aerobic trainning, you don't need that much for 100 ***, you need more speed, so you have to do more all out speed sets with a lot of rest.
I think 10 seconds in two moths is too much to ask for, maybe you can drop 5 sec if you do the right things.
If what you have been doing isn't working, do something else, is not impossible to improve on your own as much as with a team, but you have to test things out, if you are in shape, and you are not getting faster that can only mean that either: you have to get stronger or improve your technique, there is no point on keep doing 10x100 in that case with low rest.
"taper time" is very subjective, 3 weeks of doing nothing is just stupid, you have to figure out what works best for you, in my case I just need a week and 3 or 4 swims during that week of doing sprints and drills, and I'm ready to go fast.
For now, I would sugget you to film yourself doing a 100 *** as fast as you can (like it is your final race), and then it will be very obvious what you are doing wrong, spliting? techinique? cardio? we will see.
