Ok, I swam since I was 11 year round until college. So its been 13 years since I have worked out with a team, I stopped for a lot of reason but I began to have supraspinatus tendon problems and Life took over.
I am hearing new info on swimming --- what is TI techinque?
I know I need to revamp my stoke style and have to move from a
muscle through the water swimmer to the graceful stroke I have right after doing some stroke drills.
How do I bridge the gap?
I am just getting comfortable swimming sets of 100's--- 250s freak me out , not to mention swimming a 500 free straight. I get tired aerobically and I have a hard time determing if the tiredness ( weakness) is muscle fatigue or the tendon getting inflammed and signaling me to stop.
I can swim 3,000 -3,200 in about 1 1/2 hours. I perfer to do other strokes, as they are easier for me to do. Like I would rather do a 400 im( ok so the fly is mainly 1- arm) with an extra 100 then a 500 free. However I know that endurance is a sign of physical fitness and want to be able to swimm a 500 free straight, flip turns and all.
We just did 2 500's for time and although i did *** stoke i was able to swim it 7:49--2 min and14 sec off my best 500 time.
What would be the best way to keep my technique up( ie longer stokes, increased kicking) and get to where swimming a 500 is a piece of cake? should I do more 100's with less rest to simulate a 500 or start doing 150's and 200s then 250's?
PS- I am also about 100 lbs over weight--- my friend seems to think that I should use fins more to reduce muscle strain while increasing my heart rate until i lose more weight.
any physical therapists/swimmers /coaches have any thoughts on that as well?
Originally posted by x-swimmer
I am hearing new info on swimming --- what is TI techinque?
There are a lot of threads about that on this board. (I know that in one of them, the lead TI man, Terry Laughlin, posted a few times.) You can look at the Total Immersion web site, buy the book, do a Google search, etc.
The topic requires some research, but in my opinion, the two key points are:
1) Streamlining (reducing water resistance) will produce more results than just trying to increase your power output.
2) Stroke length (technique) is more important that stroke rate. (Most swimmers are at the point where increasing the stroke rate will cause them to get slopy, so no speeding up. Keep in mind that this is a balance, you are learning to avoid shortening your stroke length as you go to your race rate.)
If this seems obvious to you, remember it is easy to say "increase your stroke length", the question is how do you do that.
Originally posted by x-swimmer
I am hearing new info on swimming --- what is TI techinque?
There are a lot of threads about that on this board. (I know that in one of them, the lead TI man, Terry Laughlin, posted a few times.) You can look at the Total Immersion web site, buy the book, do a Google search, etc.
The topic requires some research, but in my opinion, the two key points are:
1) Streamlining (reducing water resistance) will produce more results than just trying to increase your power output.
2) Stroke length (technique) is more important that stroke rate. (Most swimmers are at the point where increasing the stroke rate will cause them to get slopy, so no speeding up. Keep in mind that this is a balance, you are learning to avoid shortening your stroke length as you go to your race rate.)
If this seems obvious to you, remember it is easy to say "increase your stroke length", the question is how do you do that.
