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

Dima, If you're concentrating on the 50 and 100 work on your speed, technique, and splitting. do fast half length sprints and 25's with plenty of rest. followed by a 75 easy do fast 50's where you cruise the first 25 hit a great turn and sprint home then give yourself plenty of rest before you start the next one follow the hard swim with an easy 150 with perfect form do negative split 100's too When's your big meet? if you want to improve your endurance do things like 10 x 100 free on 1:25 holding 1:20's or 1:20 holding 1:15's good luck ande Originally posted by hooked-on-swimming Ande, I have started swimming in August with no prior swimming background.So eight now The most I can do is sets of 100s. I can swim 200 but I die after a couple of them and am pretty much shot for the rest of the work-out.Although when I started I could hardly swim more than one length of the pool without panting. Now I am in a great shape, 24 y.o., 6'1", 162-165lb, very strong(5 years of lifting), my problem though is my endurance which is improving, but still leaves much to be desired... Well, as for my sets(they are in SCM) I can sustain 100s on 1:40 interval taking them out in around 1:10-1:13 each, as for 50s , well, I can do those forever...Usually to crank it up I will do them on a 55 sec. interval( around 7-10 of those) each at around 32-34 sec. pace...I feel that as my stamina is improving(and my recent better kick) it gets easier and easier to make those intervals, I used yo finish every swim with a desire to quit , 'cause I was panting like crazy, now I do get my heart rate up, but I think it is not that high anymore, 'cause it feels better...All the intervals and times are from a pushh off the wall...So judging by that, what do you think I am capable of in a meet(50 and 100m free) where I am determined to do my best, where the pool is fast vs. my slow pool where I train, shaved, tapered and wearing a good suit?

Dima, If you're concentrating on the 50 and 100 work on your speed, technique, and splitting. do fast half length sprints and 25's with plenty of rest. followed by a 75 easy do fast 50's where you cruise the first 25 hit a great turn and sprint home then give yourself plenty of rest before you start the next one follow the hard swim with an easy 150 with perfect form do negative split 100's too When's your big meet? if you want to improve your endurance do things like 10 x 100 free on 1:25 holding 1:20's or 1:20 holding 1:15's good luck ande Originally posted by hooked-on-swimming Ande, I have started swimming in August with no prior swimming background.So eight now The most I can do is sets of 100s. I can swim 200 but I die after a couple of them and am pretty much shot for the rest of the work-out.Although when I started I could hardly swim more than one length of the pool without panting. Now I am in a great shape, 24 y.o., 6'1", 162-165lb, very strong(5 years of lifting), my problem though is my endurance which is improving, but still leaves much to be desired... Well, as for my sets(they are in SCM) I can sustain 100s on 1:40 interval taking them out in around 1:10-1:13 each, as for 50s , well, I can do those forever...Usually to crank it up I will do them on a 55 sec. interval( around 7-10 of those) each at around 32-34 sec. pace...I feel that as my stamina is improving(and my recent better kick) it gets easier and easier to make those intervals, I used yo finish every swim with a desire to quit , 'cause I was panting like crazy, now I do get my heart rate up, but I think it is not that high anymore, 'cause it feels better...All the intervals and times are from a pushh off the wall...So judging by that, what do you think I am capable of in a meet(50 and 100m free) where I am determined to do my best, where the pool is fast vs. my slow pool where I train, shaved, tapered and wearing a good suit?