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What do YOU need to do to have a major swimming breakthrough?"

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One topic of great interest to us all is "What do you need to do to have a major swimming breakthrough?" "What do you need to do to significantly improve your swimming times over one season?" Do you have any specific, nitty gritty type suggestions. I think it's really easy to fall into ruts, to just show up and go through the motions rather than seizing the moment while we train. Any one have any thoughts on what we need to do to significantly improve? forums.usms.org/showthread.php
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  • I believe most people have the potential to significantly improve, a good question to ask yourself is What am I NOT doing in my swimming training that I could or should be doing? Begin with How many times a week are you training? How far do you go in each practice? How hard and fast do you go? Do you have any training partners who are as good or better than you? Are you splitting your race correctly? did you taper? did you shave? are you wearing a fast skin body suit in races? how good was the pool you swam in? how psyched were you before and during your race? are you making any technique mistakes you could improve? how close are you to your ideal body weight? how strong are you? Ande Originally posted by gull80 I'm familiar with the question (I ask myself this regularly), but I don't have an answer. Last spring I improved 25 seconds in the 500 (Jan. to May) but have not been able to swim faster since then. Maybe I'm not training enough to offset the effects of aging. Or maybe there is a physiological limit as to how close I can get to the times I swam 25 years ago. Or maybe I just need to move back to Walnut Creek (near where I grew up) and train with a good coach.
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  • I believe most people have the potential to significantly improve, a good question to ask yourself is What am I NOT doing in my swimming training that I could or should be doing? Begin with How many times a week are you training? How far do you go in each practice? How hard and fast do you go? Do you have any training partners who are as good or better than you? Are you splitting your race correctly? did you taper? did you shave? are you wearing a fast skin body suit in races? how good was the pool you swam in? how psyched were you before and during your race? are you making any technique mistakes you could improve? how close are you to your ideal body weight? how strong are you? Ande Originally posted by gull80 I'm familiar with the question (I ask myself this regularly), but I don't have an answer. Last spring I improved 25 seconds in the 500 (Jan. to May) but have not been able to swim faster since then. Maybe I'm not training enough to offset the effects of aging. Or maybe there is a physiological limit as to how close I can get to the times I swam 25 years ago. Or maybe I just need to move back to Walnut Creek (near where I grew up) and train with a good coach.
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