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 always warm up the same at every big meet. At our Nationals it can be real hard to do as there may be 200 swimmers in the warmup pool.
I always swim at least 4 single lengths of breaststroke underwater to open up the lungs. I always warm up the legs and arms seperate, and then do the simple wave style drills like hand lead body dolphin. I practice a narrow underwater kick to the surface, and a strong first stroke without a breath.
Yes, my ears are just underwater on the first stroke.
If your head comes up early on the first stroke, before the hands go apart for the pull, your hips will sink and you loose a lot of time.
I always warm up the same at every big meet. At our Nationals it can be real hard to do as there may be 200 swimmers in the warmup pool.
I always swim at least 4 single lengths of breaststroke underwater to open up the lungs. I always warm up the legs and arms seperate, and then do the simple wave style drills like hand lead body dolphin. I practice a narrow underwater kick to the surface, and a strong first stroke without a breath.
Yes, my ears are just underwater on the first stroke.
If your head comes up early on the first stroke, before the hands go apart for the pull, your hips will sink and you loose a lot of time.
