Hey outthere,
I'm a 16yrs old youth and I'm currently working on some workouts to help me improving my time on 50m ***.
Regardless of some people warning me about it, I am selfcoaching and it seems to work as I cut off my 50 *** time by at least 15 secs. (I started with 1:08s in early Dec and just reached the 52,5secs yesterday)
As I usually go to the pool twice a week I would like to create a set of 4 different workouts with different focuses (endurance, sprint, technique e.g.) to avoid a routine and continue on going down the time ladder.
I already made up two workouts but also they seem to work as I can complete them fairly well if some on really knows some thing about the subject could have a look over them for me and correct them as nessacary and also help me with the rest of the workouts.
Btw I recently read that doing a lot of breaststroke isn't that good for the knees. Is that right? Does it mean that I should do less breaststroke in my workouts?
Thanks for ya help
Matthias
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Matthias,
As a sprint breaststroker, you really need a coach. Search the web for Wayne McCauley, many of my breaststroke articles have been translated into German. Or see them at www.breaststroke.info.
I am assuming your times are meters? Twice a week is not enough to swim a complete 50 meters all out. And you have to be REAL strong to sprint a good 50 meters.
Also I had a entire technique breaststroke workout in last (November/December 2004 Issue) months issue of Swim magazine. You might check to see if it is posted on http://swiminfo.com/
Also my "Rethinking Sprint Breaststroke" is online at swiminfo.com/.../200110-01st_art1.asp
Matthias,
As a sprint breaststroker, you really need a coach. Search the web for Wayne McCauley, many of my breaststroke articles have been translated into German. Or see them at www.breaststroke.info.
I am assuming your times are meters? Twice a week is not enough to swim a complete 50 meters all out. And you have to be REAL strong to sprint a good 50 meters.
Also I had a entire technique breaststroke workout in last (November/December 2004 Issue) months issue of Swim magazine. You might check to see if it is posted on http://swiminfo.com/
Also my "Rethinking Sprint Breaststroke" is online at swiminfo.com/.../200110-01st_art1.asp