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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Originally posted by Matthias
Do you mean a pull like Amanda Beard uses? like pulling right until your *** with no or little insweep?
brgds
matthias
I don't believe Amanda uses that pull. I have a video of her and watched maybe 50 times in the last several months. She has a very powerful insweep. That's why she can come up so high out of water. I think she sweeps out wide and sweeps in toward her chest.
Anyway, hi to all fellow breaststrokers. I just found this forum yesterday and thought it was great. Lots of active posters here.
Also, Wayne, good to see you are a poster here. I read some of your articles on breaststrokeinfo and found them to be very helpful.
I started learning breaststroke in June. Started with the out back down recover type of pull. I made some progress using that type of breaststroke but I had great difficulties breathing without lifting my head and the arms are too slow to get out.
A couple of weeks ago, I switched to the outsweep and insweep type of arm strokes. I get so much momentum from the insweep that I naturally come out of water to breathe almost without lifting my head at all. It's faster and less tiring.
I really prefer the sweep in and sweep out type of pulls. Pulling back like a fly pull simply just doens't work for me. Perhaps it works for some people.
My knees are a little sore too, but generally don't last long. Mostly the part where if you stand with your feet next to each other, where your two legs touch each other by the knees.
Originally posted by Matthias
Do you mean a pull like Amanda Beard uses? like pulling right until your *** with no or little insweep?
brgds
matthias
I don't believe Amanda uses that pull. I have a video of her and watched maybe 50 times in the last several months. She has a very powerful insweep. That's why she can come up so high out of water. I think she sweeps out wide and sweeps in toward her chest.
Anyway, hi to all fellow breaststrokers. I just found this forum yesterday and thought it was great. Lots of active posters here.
Also, Wayne, good to see you are a poster here. I read some of your articles on breaststrokeinfo and found them to be very helpful.
I started learning breaststroke in June. Started with the out back down recover type of pull. I made some progress using that type of breaststroke but I had great difficulties breathing without lifting my head and the arms are too slow to get out.
A couple of weeks ago, I switched to the outsweep and insweep type of arm strokes. I get so much momentum from the insweep that I naturally come out of water to breathe almost without lifting my head at all. It's faster and less tiring.
I really prefer the sweep in and sweep out type of pulls. Pulling back like a fly pull simply just doens't work for me. Perhaps it works for some people.
My knees are a little sore too, but generally don't last long. Mostly the part where if you stand with your feet next to each other, where your two legs touch each other by the knees.
