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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Former Member
The transition from pulldown to the first stroke which breaks the surface is the single most important stroke of the 50 race.
I have learned not to breathe on that stroke, instead concentrating on this transition and moving forwards.
I have seen too many swimmers breathe wrong and loose a full second on this stroke alone.
You are only about 7 or 8 seconds into the race, you DO NOT NEED air at this point. By breathing on the second stroke up, you gain at least half a second during the first stroke and at least a quarter second during the seocond stroke up. Try it!
Just make sure some part of your head comes above the waters surface during the stroke. It only needs to be a tuft of hair!
The transition from pulldown to the first stroke which breaks the surface is the single most important stroke of the 50 race.
I have learned not to breathe on that stroke, instead concentrating on this transition and moving forwards.
I have seen too many swimmers breathe wrong and loose a full second on this stroke alone.
You are only about 7 or 8 seconds into the race, you DO NOT NEED air at this point. By breathing on the second stroke up, you gain at least half a second during the first stroke and at least a quarter second during the seocond stroke up. Try it!
Just make sure some part of your head comes above the waters surface during the stroke. It only needs to be a tuft of hair!
