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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I took a look at Wayne's article "Rethinking Sprint *** Stroke", and I have a question.
You mention swimming 25m under water as one of the drills. I can do this, but only if I keep pushing myself down with the pulls. (I can also stay down if exhale as much as I can before starting, but then of course I can't get to the other end.) And I have seen other references to swimming underwater just using breaststroke kick, but I float to the surface within 10 meters or so.
How do you all manage this?
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Former Member
I took a look at Wayne's article "Rethinking Sprint *** Stroke", and I have a question.
You mention swimming 25m under water as one of the drills. I can do this, but only if I keep pushing myself down with the pulls. (I can also stay down if exhale as much as I can before starting, but then of course I can't get to the other end.) And I have seen other references to swimming underwater just using breaststroke kick, but I float to the surface within 10 meters or so.
How do you all manage this?
