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 assume that you are asking Hooked, but if you are asking me here is my response: My biggest thing is just trying to get back in shape and keep up with the kids. I always watched my times working out by myself, but recently I have been sucking so much wind between sets that I am just going when Coach says go. My lung capacity is so bad that I have a difficult time doing flip turns throughout the entire workout. But, when I started last week, I had to stop doing flip turns after our 1k warm-up so I am improving and it has only been a week. I figure that I will be in decent shape in another 6 weeks, and good to very good shape by the end of summer. Maybe I can make the LC meet in the Woodlands at the end of July.
Saturday I worked on my turns and a 6 beat kick. It was a recovery day for me (last week was my first working out with a team and my body felt it), so I was going about as slow as I ever do. Swimming lazy and using a 6 beat kick I was able to swim 100 repeats at 1:28.
Is it possible for me to get down around a minute per 100 by the end of the summer? What would be a good/realistic goal for the end of summer?
Hook'em
Blue
I assume that you are asking Hooked, but if you are asking me here is my response: My biggest thing is just trying to get back in shape and keep up with the kids. I always watched my times working out by myself, but recently I have been sucking so much wind between sets that I am just going when Coach says go. My lung capacity is so bad that I have a difficult time doing flip turns throughout the entire workout. But, when I started last week, I had to stop doing flip turns after our 1k warm-up so I am improving and it has only been a week. I figure that I will be in decent shape in another 6 weeks, and good to very good shape by the end of summer. Maybe I can make the LC meet in the Woodlands at the end of July.
Saturday I worked on my turns and a 6 beat kick. It was a recovery day for me (last week was my first working out with a team and my body felt it), so I was going about as slow as I ever do. Swimming lazy and using a 6 beat kick I was able to swim 100 repeats at 1:28.
Is it possible for me to get down around a minute per 100 by the end of the summer? What would be a good/realistic goal for the end of summer?
Hook'em
Blue
