Absent technique improvement, I am wondering if each swimmer has a ceiling that can never really be broken once a minimal amount of training has occurred. This is my theory based on my own swimming experience over the last year.
No matter how fast I flail my arms the result in the 50 free always seems to be the same - 28.5, 29.2, 28.7. Seems like a random result +- 0.5 seconds. :frustrated:
Can someone with those kinds of results ever eventually go 26 something just by training harder, doing more and more sprints, etc.. I would hope to hear that is a possibility even though I know I have some fundamental flaws.
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Since then I have gotten faster and always look at my stroke as a work in progress.
Bobby Patten shared this story from a clinic he was giving back when he was younger with Matt Biondi, Pablo Morales and another great, Jager maybe.
A kid asked when they learned to swim. The answers started coming back, 6, 7, 12 and got to Pablo. Pablo said, with all seriousness, that he was still learning to swim.
Since then I have gotten faster and always look at my stroke as a work in progress.
Bobby Patten shared this story from a clinic he was giving back when he was younger with Matt Biondi, Pablo Morales and another great, Jager maybe.
A kid asked when they learned to swim. The answers started coming back, 6, 7, 12 and got to Pablo. Pablo said, with all seriousness, that he was still learning to swim.
