The Sprint Free Lane
If you could be a sprinter, you would.
We get more rest.
We don't train as far but we go faster.
Every move matters.
We're fast twitch. We're strong. We're fierce.
It's adrenalin
We get the glory
50's & 100's are our thing, we wish we could race 25's & 75's, we think of 200's as distance & tend to split longer races quite badly because we have no sense of pace. But it proves to ourselves, our coaches & friends that we have absolutely no business in any race over a 100.
100m Freestyle world record, Cesar Cielo Filho - YouTube
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Well in a 100 I breathe every 4th stroke, but never on a breakout because they are critical for the transition from streamline to swimming. If you breathe out of the breakout, it takes an extra stroke or two to get the transition complete... and you're not getting full stroke efficiency in a breakout so why would you want any more strokes than required in this phase?
My breakouts are all power and can be somewhat violent. There is just no time for a breath there with everything else that happens in transition. I suspect that if you're finding there's no difference, perhaps you have weak breakouts and have found something to address with your sprints?
Well in a 100 I breathe every 4th stroke, but never on a breakout because they are critical for the transition from streamline to swimming. If you breathe out of the breakout, it takes an extra stroke or two to get the transition complete... and you're not getting full stroke efficiency in a breakout so why would you want any more strokes than required in this phase?
My breakouts are all power and can be somewhat violent. There is just no time for a breath there with everything else that happens in transition. I suspect that if you're finding there's no difference, perhaps you have weak breakouts and have found something to address with your sprints?
