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?
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I just realised what made my freestyle stroke count drop.My kick!!!It became a lot smoother and coordinated(6-beat).Before for some odd reason part of it was good, i.e. i followed the rhythm pretty well as my body rotated to the right(right hip facing down the bottom) but it would be a little erratic when my body was rotated to the left, that would happen as I was taking a breath(I breathe to the right and mostly every cycle), now it seems to be evened out and I do better kicking on a breathing hand, too.My kick did not get stronger but just like I said before it just makes a lot more sense now.My guess is that I was sinking a bit on my breathing hand and I would slow dow tha way with an erratic kick and now with the improved one it gives me a better streamline position and I feel a better flow of my body :-)))
I just realised what made my freestyle stroke count drop.My kick!!!It became a lot smoother and coordinated(6-beat).Before for some odd reason part of it was good, i.e. i followed the rhythm pretty well as my body rotated to the right(right hip facing down the bottom) but it would be a little erratic when my body was rotated to the left, that would happen as I was taking a breath(I breathe to the right and mostly every cycle), now it seems to be evened out and I do better kicking on a breathing hand, too.My kick did not get stronger but just like I said before it just makes a lot more sense now.My guess is that I was sinking a bit on my breathing hand and I would slow dow tha way with an erratic kick and now with the improved one it gives me a better streamline position and I feel a better flow of my body :-)))
