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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There is ALWAYS a drill that will make your breaststroke better, that can be done while others are doing freestyle or backstroke.
I try to keep up with people pulling freestyle by using a dolphin kick and Zoomer fins.
I do long pulldowns or two pulldowns at least one set per workout. This trains the brain as much as anything. Subtle things like an arch in the back can shorten the pulldown. When I am going good, I can get 15 yards from a pushoff.
Every turn is a race breaststroke turn.
I really believe breaststrokers need to do closer to 75 % breaststroke drills to become better. 50% is way to little.
Knee twinges are part of being a breaststroker. That is really the time to get out of the water and stretch. The hamstring stretch really helps. Also lots of toe lifts will strengthen the smaller muscles arround the knee joint.
There is ALWAYS a drill that will make your breaststroke better, that can be done while others are doing freestyle or backstroke.
I try to keep up with people pulling freestyle by using a dolphin kick and Zoomer fins.
I do long pulldowns or two pulldowns at least one set per workout. This trains the brain as much as anything. Subtle things like an arch in the back can shorten the pulldown. When I am going good, I can get 15 yards from a pushoff.
Every turn is a race breaststroke turn.
I really believe breaststrokers need to do closer to 75 % breaststroke drills to become better. 50% is way to little.
Knee twinges are part of being a breaststroker. That is really the time to get out of the water and stretch. The hamstring stretch really helps. Also lots of toe lifts will strengthen the smaller muscles arround the knee joint.
