100 Free - SPEED IS MOST IMPORTANT

RE: 100 Free - SPEED IS MOST IMPORTANT

Erik Hochstein — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:59:46 GMT

2-3x 15 sort of as a warm up ... then the 50 at 100 pave and something all out. I am still learning how much rest is truly needed - I was so used to endurance type work and you just keep doing sth every day but if you can do sth fast all out every day its for me now a clear sign that I didn't really got max effort. I do a set of 4-6x25 all out ... I need a day rest from anything fast -- still evolving but its working ... clock never lies :)

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03BNB — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 18:11:10 GMT

Great ideas. Clarify please in Day TWO: do 2-3 rounds of Day One set. Then, “- and 1-2 ALL-OUT ///” ?????

After that , THEN 2 sets of the 50 at 100 pace.

appreciate your clarification

Lyle

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Erik Hochstein — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 03:29:51 GMT

Nice - it has for sure changed many things in my swimming and I have been in the sport for quite a while :) ... If nothing else - add in something at MAX speed after an easy warm up - not a 1,000 swimming warm up ... and get LOTS of rest - all ok as long as you stay warm enough. Underwater kicks are tough to learn for me - no matter what, I am still slower for every underwater kick I take -- it does make sense though - you can''t just flip a switch -- sort of the core of swimming is feel for the water and I just don't have the kick feel underwater - trying now to improve my stretching and lower back strength - but still not sure it will ever work - see maybe we weren't that ignorant in our time - wasn't like we just had to push off the wall and kick to get 1/2 sec faster ...

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1R08V — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 16:51:51 GMT

It's very good timing for me to see your post. I'm 65 and back in pretty good shape after many years -- but have done no real sprinting yet. Interested in what I could do for 50 and 100 y free and knew I needed to get sprinting into practices. (Also wondering if I can ever incorporate butterfly kicks; never learned them and stink at them now.)

RE: 100 Free - SPEED IS MOST IMPORTANT

Erik Hochstein — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 13:16:57 GMT

Nice experience to share - like the idea to just keep it simple -- training for triathlon 3x a week I would warm up on feel and distance per stroke -- and then do a simple simple set ... like 100s. Problem with my history of swimming and I know it was still done in 2000s and probably still is -- we would actually swim lots of repeat 400s - like 15x400 main set ... not just for a week - I actually like training camp excess weeks but this would be standard for 2/3 of season - train like a marathon runner for 100 and 200 free swim... never again

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ForceDJ — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 13:51:52 GMT

Erik —I’m not sure what you’re saying WRT to the plan for swimming vs. running. BUT…I will agree that what I know about training for swimming seems odd compared to training for running. Like you, I’ve always equated swimming distance (and effort) to about ¼ of running. In high school (late 70s), I wasn’t on the swim team, but was a CC and track distance runner. I was a capable swimmer, but didn’t get into it for training until shortly after h.s. as I became interested in the new sport of triathlon. At first, my swimming was just getting in the pool (or open water) and going for ## distance or time. I felt like I just needed to “get through” the triathlon swim. I didn’t really know anything about structuring a swim workout. But then other swimmers began to tell me that I had good form, and could probably get faster by doing some speed work in the pool. So, without the knowledge of how swim workouts are structured, I did what I knew how, and made up workouts as if I were training for a mile run…with 100 in the pool being equivalent to a 440y/400m on the track; a 450y/400m in the pool is about equivalent to a mile run…and so on. On the track…the coach would have us running lots of repeat quarters. In the pool it’s repeat 100s.

Dan

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Allen Stark — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 03:39:51 GMT

YES!!!!!!