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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My kick is the biggest thing holding me back in my free times. That and lung capacity. To many nights partying on 6th Street in smoky bars, and smoking cigars. I stopped doing that a few years ago, but I can tell that it had a major effect.
Back to my kick: I am stuck on a two beat kick, because a six beat just wears out my lungs right now. Coach noticed that I will do a six beat kick when we do sets with fins, so we have been doing more sets with fins and more hypoxic sets to build up my lung capacity. The one positive thing that I have noticed is that I can keep up and even pass people in other lanes on our pull sets.
I figure that if I keep eating one bite at a time I will eventually eat the elephant (winning races). It is just going to take some time.
Hook'em
Blue
My kick is the biggest thing holding me back in my free times. That and lung capacity. To many nights partying on 6th Street in smoky bars, and smoking cigars. I stopped doing that a few years ago, but I can tell that it had a major effect.
Back to my kick: I am stuck on a two beat kick, because a six beat just wears out my lungs right now. Coach noticed that I will do a six beat kick when we do sets with fins, so we have been doing more sets with fins and more hypoxic sets to build up my lung capacity. The one positive thing that I have noticed is that I can keep up and even pass people in other lanes on our pull sets.
I figure that if I keep eating one bite at a time I will eventually eat the elephant (winning races). It is just going to take some time.
Hook'em
Blue
