Training to Beat School Record!

Since school is starting soon I would first suggest that you ask your coach what you can do in the preseason to get ready for the season. You should realise that a 20 second improvement for a 100 is very hard to do. My guess is he would suggest the following. 1. Strength training. 2. Distance and drill work on your own time, if you can find a pool with open swimming. Since you are a *** stroker, the drilling is probably more important than the distance. (You might want to check out the workouts section for *** stroke drills) I am assuming this isn't a brand new team, but one that has been in existence awhile. If this is the case, the "relatively soft" record would indicate that the yardage being done is about like in my HS, (2-4,000 yards/workout). This is not very much, so you have to make every yard count. Before my freshman year I took a look at the workouts being done in Swimmers World and compared them to what my team did. The warmups in that rag were longer than some of the workouts we were doing. This made me realise that I needed make every yard count. So I went all out on every rep and every set, even the warmup. The only time I backed off the intensity was when the coach ordered me to. My goggles would fill with tears 2 or 3 workouts a week from the pain. My HS program was cut after my freshman year, (our pool was condemned and a replacement wasn't built), but I managed to set records in my low power program for the 200 and 500 free, and the 160 and 200 IM with this approach. I also snuck into states for the 500 Fr. (The area I swam in was populated by other programs operating under the same constraints as our program) There wasn't much pool time to be had, so the times were very un-impressive.

Since school is starting soon I would first suggest that you ask your coach what you can do in the preseason to get ready for the season. You should realise that a 20 second improvement for a 100 is very hard to do. My guess is he would suggest the following. 1. Strength training. 2. Distance and drill work on your own time, if you can find a pool with open swimming. Since you are a *** stroker, the drilling is probably more important than the distance. (You might want to check out the workouts section for *** stroke drills) I am assuming this isn't a brand new team, but one that has been in existence awhile. If this is the case, the "relatively soft" record would indicate that the yardage being done is about like in my HS, (2-4,000 yards/workout). This is not very much, so you have to make every yard count. Before my freshman year I took a look at the workouts being done in Swimmers World and compared them to what my team did. The warmups in that rag were longer than some of the workouts we were doing. This made me realise that I needed make every yard count. So I went all out on every rep and every set, even the warmup. The only time I backed off the intensity was when the coach ordered me to. My goggles would fill with tears 2 or 3 workouts a week from the pain. My HS program was cut after my freshman year, (our pool was condemned and a replacement wasn't built), but I managed to set records in my low power program for the 200 and 500 free, and the 160 and 200 IM with this approach. I also snuck into states for the 500 Fr. (The area I swam in was populated by other programs operating under the same constraints as our program) There wasn't much pool time to be had, so the times were very un-impressive.